inner & outer ecology
I have 10+ years in sustainable food systems and humanitarian work across the UK, Asia and East Africa. My work is a mosaic of advocacy, systems-level strategy, partnerships, co-design and facilitation — towards more just, interconnected futures
Before I began moving more deeply into Ayurveda and body-based healing, most of my work sat in food systems.
I worked with food businesses, farmers, communities, international organisations and sustainability teams, trying to understand how we create healthier relationships with land, food, culture, supply chains and each other.
For a long time, I thought systems change was mostly about strategy, procurement, policy, behaviour change, farmer incentives, responsible sourcing, education and better business models.
I still believe in all of that.
But I am increasingly learning that the outer systems we build are shaped by the inner systems we live from.
This page holds some of my previous and ongoing work in sustainability, regenerative food systems and conscious food culture. It is part of the wider ecology of my practice. Because I do not see personal healing and planetary healing as separate things.
Photo credit: Elsa Pearl @elsapearlphotos || @chefsmanifesto || @omvedgarden
My Background
My route into this work began with human geography, a curiosity about place, culture, land and belonging.
I then spent nearly a decade working across sustainable food systems, including roles with a FTSE 30 food company and the United Nations World Food Programme. My work has touched responsible sourcing, regenerative agriculture, food security, innovation, community engagement, behaviour change and the deeper question of how food can reconnect us to life rather than separate us from it.
More recently, I have worked in Kenya with a food-as-medicine, gut health and biodiversity-led food brand, helping shape education, storytelling, farmer sourcing, events and movement-building around the idea that food is never just food.
How this Shapes my Healing Work
Ayurveda gave my sustainability work a body.
It helped me see that digestion, rhythm, depletion, overstimulation and disconnection are not only personal issues. They are also cultural ones. The same patterns that exhaust land often exhaust people.
Too much extraction. Too much speed. Too little rest. Too little diversity. Too little listening.Not enough reverence for regeneration.
This is why my work now lives at the meeting point of body, food, creativity and ecology.
I am interested in what it means to heal in a way that makes us more available to life. More connected to our bodies, to each other, to the food we eat and to the land beneath us.
Selected Past Areas of Expertise:
Strategy & Global Supply Chains
Sustainability strategies in global supply chains that shift from “do less harm” to regenerative impact & bring business value
Responsible sourcing & ethical auditing: due diligence, toolkits/policies, improvement roadmaps
Culture & Innovation
Sustainability & innovation culture: mindsets, skills & structures so teams execute & stay energised
Collaborative co-design: locally led projects/products/services; Theories of Change
Partnerships
Multi-stakeholder partnerships to secure raw-material supply, meet impact goals & create shared value for farmers & nature
Design & facilitation of multi-stakeholder workshops to build alignment & unlock action
Stakeholder mapping & partner cultivation across public–private–civic ecosystems
Research, insight & evidence; food systems-level MEL
Ventures & Funding (East Africa)
Business development for agri start-ups
Fundraising & income generation
Past clients: United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) ; Farm to Market Alliance (FtMA); Brown’s Food Company; Grove and Meadow; Food Beyond the Plate
Past board positions: Sustainable Rice Platform (co-convened by UNEP & IRRI)
Past partners: Helvetas; USAID; NORAD; Amani x Global Good; Mars Foods; Associated British Foods; Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA); Galaxy Rice Mills