Colin Sage is an Irish research scholar who has worked on the interconnections of food systems, agriculture, environment and wellbeing throughout his career. Following retirement from University College Cork in 2019 he moved to Viana Do Castelo where he has spent the pandemic writing, cycling and fermenting vegetables. Colin has undertaken field research in Bolivia, Mexico and Indonesia; has worked closely with artisan food producers in Ireland and was the founding Chair of the Cork Food Policy Council. He is Visiting Professor at the American University of Rome and at the University of Gastronomic Sciences, Italy. He is the author of Environment and Food (2012); and co-editor of Food system transformations: Social movements, local economies, collaborative networks (2021); Transdisciplinary perspectives on Transitions to sustainability (2017); Food Transgressions: Making sense of contemporary food politics (2016) and Metaphor, Sustainability, Transformation (forthcoming).
