Estève Giraud
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Mail code: 5402Campus: Tempe
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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).
- 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
Book
Giraud, E. (2016). Le bio est-il éthique ? (Eng: Is Organic ethical?), Studyrama, Paris, 146 p
Journal Articles
Giraud, E., Bevacqua, E., Mercer, M., Benard, N., Nayak, P., Trahan, T., & Merrigan, K. (2026). Scaling up urban agriculture in Tempe, Arizona: A participatory planning case for early urban food policy. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 15(2), 81–124. https://doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2026.152.026
Morteza Maleki, Nima Gheitaran, Sara El-Sayed, Scott Cloutier & Esteve G. 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
Long, E., Giraud, E. (in press). Transnational Feminist Limit Work: Migrant Women of Color Engage Economic Realities of Neoliberal Globalization in Walzer, B., Al-Khateeb, M. T., Nish, J., and S. Baniya eds., (Re) Mobilizing Solidarity in/and Transnational Feminist Rhetorics.
Aggarwal, R., Giraud, E., Taylor, C., Berady, A., Opejin, A. (2024) Chapter 13. Sustainable Food Systems for Cities in Hagen, B. and D. Pijawka eds., Sustainability for the 21st Century: Pathways, Programs, and Policies (4th ed.). Kendall Hunt.
Giraud, E.G., Easterly, T. (2023). Designing Patient-centric Dementia Care: An Expert Care-giver’s Perspective in Healthy Aging in Arizona. [Special issue]. 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
Giraud, E., Nayak, P., Benard, N., Bevacqua, E., Hanley, C., El-Sayed, S., & Merrigan, K. (2024). Grow Local Tempe: Featuring Urban Agriculture Initiatives, Best Practices, and a Path Forward for the City of Tempe. ASU Swette Center for Sustainable Food Systems. https://globalfutures.asu.edu/food/project/arizona-food-systems/
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-report.pdf
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/39/2023/01/20230124-meatless-monday.pdf
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/