Deirdre Woods

Chair of Trustees

Dee is the Co-founder and a Director of IFAN member Granville Community Kitchen and is a passionate advocate for food and farming policy change, the Right to Food and food sovereignty. She is a previous BBC Food and Farming Awards winner and Slow Food ambassador. Dee currently sits on the GLA London Food Board, is a member of the Food Ethics Council and trustee of Sustain and A Growing Culture. She is the Food Justice Policy Coordinator and a Director of the Landworkers Alliance. Dee is a member of the LION, Land in Our Names collective, a founding member of the Global Solidarity Alliance for Food, Health and Social Justice and co-founder of the B.R.E.A.D Collective of activist/researchers and the African Caribbean Heritage Food Network. She is an ambassador to the Farming the Future fund and FlowFunder with Be The Earth Foundation. Dee was recently given the mandate as Western Europe Focal Point of the Civil Society and Indigenous People's Mechanism(CSM) Coordinating Committee for relations with the Committee on World Food Security (CFS ) at the UN.