Farmworkers harvesting summer squash in Costa Rica
Food Systems and Sustainability Lab

Galt Lab

Meena Pandey, M.S.

Meena Pandey, M.S.

Three girls at a park picnic on a blanket with food and balloons, casual photo

Ph.D. Student

Meena is a second-year M.S. student in International Agricultural Development and an incoming Ph.D. student in Horticulture and Agronomy in UC Davis.

Meena worked in the Galt lab in 2024 on a project examining agroecological and organic transitions. She reviewed sustainability transition frameworks and analyzed case studies of regions that successfully expanded organic agriculture to identify policy lessons relevant to California.

Who we are

We are a group of researchers looking at how to make agriculture and food systems more just and sustainable. We study the ways that political, economic, and social structures influence the resiliency and fairness of our food systems throughout the value chain from production to consumption. Our work has a particular emphasis on California and Latin America.