Dr. Mattioni鈥檚 research areas are food policy, food environments and food security. For the past 听20 years, she has been collaborating extensively with the Rome-based UN agencies in project management in developing countries, research and training on various topics such as sustainable livelihoods, project impact assessments and gender.
In FAO she worked with the Nutrition and Food Systems Division on a Food and Green Environment Project implemented in Dar es Salaam, Lima and Tunis, and more recently she has worked as a research associate with the University of Cardiff on an EU-funded project on urban food systems in Europe.
She has experience in using mixed methods of research, and particularly qualitative methods, and her more recent research has used transition theory and social practice theory as analytical frames.
Dr. Mattioni holds a BA in Political Science, two MScs 鈥� in Development Studies at SOAS, UK, and in Food Policy at the City University London 鈥� and a PhD from the University of Pisa.
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Recent publications
Mattioni D., Milbourne P., and Sonnino R. 听(2022) Destabilizing the food regime 鈥渇rom within鈥�: tools and strategies used by urban food policy actors, Environmental听Innovation听and Societal Transitions (submitted and reviewed)
FAO, INFORMAS, GAIN (2022), Assessment of retail food environments and green spaces for healthy cities, Rome (one of the main authors of the Report).
Mattioni D. (2021) Constructing a food retail environment that encourages healthy diets in cities: the contribution of local-level policy makers and civil society, International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, 27 (1)
Mattioni D., Loconto A.M., and Brunori G. (2020) Healthy diets and the retail food environment: a sociological approach, Health and Place, vol. 61.
Mattioni D. and Caraher M., (2018) Moving towards Ecologically Sustainable Diets: Lessons from an Italian Box Delivery Scheme, International Journal of Consumer Studies, vol. 42, issue 4.
Mattioni D., Galli F., and Brunori G. (2018) 鈥淯nderstanding the food environment: the role of practice theory and policy implications鈥�, in Sustainable Diets, edited by Burlingame B. and Dernini S., CABI Books
Dernini, S., Lairon, D., Berry, E. M., Brunori, G., Capone, R., Donini, L. M., Iannetta, M., Mattioni, D., Piscopo, S., Serra-Majem, L., Sonnino, A., Stefanova, M. (2018) 鈥淭he Med Diet 4.0 framework: a multidimensional driver for revitalizing the Mediterranean diet as a sustainable diet model鈥�, in Sustainable Diets, edited by Burlingame B. and Dernini S., CABI Books
Mattioni D. and Brunori G. (2018) "Moving towards healthy diets: the key role of food environments", Nutrition and Food Science International Journal, vol. 6, issue 1
Mattioni D., (2018) Linking Food Systems, the Food Environment and Nutrition 鈥� a Focus on Africa, Background Paper for the World Bank Report on 鈥淧roductive Diversification of African Agriculture and Effects on Resilience and Nutrition鈥�, Washington D.C.