Birgit Hoinle is Postdoc Researcher at the Department of Societal Transition & Agriculture at the University of Hohenheim, Germany. She holds a PhD in Geography from the University of Hamburg. Her current research focuses on food justice, sustainable public procurement and alternative food networks. Due to several research and project stays in Brazil and Colombia she has a strong expertise in decolonial perspectives and participatory action research. She works with transdisciplinary teaching and research-based learning formats and is free-lance trainer for Global Learning. Birgit is engaged in the Food Policy Concil Tübingen and the German-wide Food Policy Council network.