Lotte Roosendaal

Lotte Roosendaal serves as Urban Food Systems Advisor at Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation (WCDI), where she specializes in food systems governance and spatial approaches to food and nutrition security. After completing her Master of Science in International Development at Radboud University, she has focused on bridging urban-rural divides in food systems through transdisciplinary approaches. Her work emphasizes the integration of spatial perspectives in food system governance, particularly in urbanizing landscapes. At WCDI, she contributes to capacity strengthening initiatives and leads courses on landscape governance and food security, including the MOOC "Food and Nutrition Security in Urbanising Landscapes." Her expertise spans landscape approaches, multi-stakeholder collaboration, and facilitating learning processes, with particular emphasis on addressing food security challenges in urban-rural contexts. Through her role, she works to strengthen rural-urban linkages and improve food system governance by engaging diverse stakeholders and promoting integrated approaches to food and nutrition security.