Estève Giraud

Director of Research,

Swette Center for Sustainable Food Systems

Other ASU affiliations

Senior Global Futures Scientist, Global Futures Scientists and Scholars

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Mail code: 5402

Campus: Tempe
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Long Bio

Estève Giraud is the Director of Research at the ASU Swette Center for Sustainable Food Systems. Her research interests include organic agriculture, urban agriculture research and policy, ethics of care in food systems, food security, food sovereignty, sustainability and food systems resilience among others. A French native, she wrote a book on the ethics of the organic movement published in France in 2014, and currently leads the Swette Center data collection and analysis effort for the USDA Transition to Organic Partnership Program which aims to support US farmers to transition to organic agriculture. In urban agriculture, she works with a team of local partners and the City of Tempe to foster food and agriculture access and knowledge for low-income communities. She is also the Director of Operations at Desert Haven Home Care, and a Strategic Advisor at the Zambakari Advisory. Estève holds a Ph.D. in Sustainability from Arizona State University, a Master in Economics and Management from University Pompeu Fabra (Spain), and a Master in Business from Toulouse Business School (France).

Education

PhD, Sustainability, Arizona State University
Master, Economics and Management, University of Pompeu Fabra, 2014
Master, Business, Toulouse Business School, 2012
Classe Préparatoire aux Grandes Ecoles, Arts & Social Sciences, Nantes University, 2008

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Publications

Book

Giraud, E. (2016). Le bio est-il éthique ? (Eng: Is Organic ethical?), Studyrama, Paris, 146 p

Journal Articles

Morteza Maleki, Nima Gheitaran, Sara El-Sayed, Scott Cloutier & Esteve Gaelle Giraud (2023) The Development and Application of a Localized Metric for Estimating Daylighting Potential in Floor Plate, International Journal of Ambient Energy, DOI: 10.1080/01430750.2023.2277310

Giraud, E. (2021). Urban Food Autonomy: The Flourishing of an Ethics of Care for Sustainability. Humanities, 10(1), 13. https://doi.org/10.3390/h10010048

Giraud, E. G., El-Sayed, S., & Opejin, A. (2021). Gardening for Food Well-Being in the COVID-19 Era. Sustainability, 13(17), 9687. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13179687

Book Chapters

Giraud, E.G., Easterly, T. (2023) Designing Patient-centric Dementia Care: An Expert Care-giver’s Perspective in Healthy Aging in Arizona. Zambakari Advisory.

Aggarwal, R., Taylor, C., Berady, A., Giraud, E., Opejin, A. (2020) Chapter 9. Sustainable Food Systems for Cities in Hagen, B. and D. Pijawka eds., Sustainability for the 21st Century: Pathways, Programs, and Policies. Kendall Hunt.

Reports

Merrigan, K. A., Giraud, E. G., El-Hage Scialabba, N., Brook, L., Johnson, A., Aird, S. (2022) Grow Organic: the Climate, Health, and Economic Case for Expanding Organic Agriculture, Natural Resources Defense Council. https://www.nrdc.org/sites/default/files/grow-organic-agriculture-repor…;

Alvarado, F, Coghlan, J., Cooper, D., Peterson, C, Wyman C., Giraud, E.G., Dart, J, Benard, N. (2022) Meatless Monday Best Practices: Assessing the Implementation and Maintenance of Meatless Monday Initiatives in the U.S. Swette Center for Sustainable Food Systems, Arizona State University. https://sustainability-innovation.asu.edu/food/wp-content/uploads/sites…;

Merrigan, K. A., Giraud, E. G., & Greene, C. (2021). The Critical To-Do List for Organic Agriculture: 46 Recommendations for the President. Swette Center for Sustainable Food Systems, Arizona State University. https://foodsystems.asu.edu/food/reports/

Expertise Areas

Urban Design and Sustainable Cities