Written for the Good Food Movement as part of my monthly column ‘The Plate and the Planet’. Published in November 2025. Header image credit: Alia Sinha for the Good Food Movement. On October 2, 2025, the EAT-Lancet Commission, a global consortium of 70 scientists from 35 countries working at the intersection of nutrition, health, and […]
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Published open access in Open Research Europe in November 2025. The research presented in this paper was supported by the EU Horizon project CLEVERFOOD under grant agreement No. 101086320. View full text here. Citation: Gudek, L., Rao, M., & Broerse, J. (2025). Stakeholder engagement in European research and innovation: An investigation into how and why EU […]
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Written for the Good Food Movement as part of my monthly column ‘The Plate and the Planet’. Published in October 2025. Header image credit: Alia Sinha for the Good Food Movement. A few months ago, I delivered a guest lecture on policies addressing the human right to food. During the question-and-answer session that followed, a […]
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Published open access in The Journal of Climate Change and Health in July 2025. I contributed to this multi-disciplinary collaborative study by assisting with research design and qualitative data analysis. Image credit: ‘Flooded Home V’ by Nina Jordan via The Met. View full text here. Title Preemptive hospital evacuation during the 2021 European floods: A […]
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In May 2025, Pint of Science—the international science communication festival—was held in the city of Venlo for the very first time. I had the pleasure of presenting my research on food waste to a full house at a local pub, where attendees gathered over a pint to learn about the latest work emerging from Maastricht […]
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In Spetember 2024, I participated in the European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics’ conference ‘EurSafe2024’. This year’s theme was the ethics of novel food production and consumption scenarios. This included proposals to address the vulnerability of food systems, the environmental impact of food production, and long-term impact of climate change on food security and […]
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Published in Annals of Emergency Medicine in June 2023. I contributed to this study by guiding the study design and supporting the first author in their analysis of qualitative data. To be cited as: van Boven, L.S., Kusters, R.W., Tin, D., van Osch, F.H., De Cauwer, H., Ketelings, L., Rao, M., Dameff, C. and Barten, […]
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Originally published on FoodUnfolded.com in July 2021 In several food cultures around the world, eating food with a fork is so common that most diners wouldn’t know how to get through their meal without one! But this wasn’t always the case. Compared to other pieces of cutlery, the invention of the fork and its addition […]
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Madhura Rao 