Stevens Azima: Home and Wild Food Procurement as a Means for Regional Sufficiency, Resilience and Food Security Dr. Stevens Azima is a postdoctoral research associate in the Niles Research lab where his research will contribute to several core areas of FSRC’s agenda by benchmarking home and wild food procurement practices to assess their contribution to the region’s productive land base and food production goals evaluating their role in supporting food access during climate shocks, and identifying policy strategies that could expand access to HWFP among food-insecure and underserved populations. Azima earned his Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from Université Laval in 2023, with a dissertation on the economic and social impacts of local food systems in Canada. Originally from Haiti, where he studied agronomy, he moved to Canada in 2015 after receiving an Excellence Scholarship through the Canada’s Emerging Leaders in the Americas Program. There, he specialized in agricultural economics and developed a broad interdisciplinary skill set. Read his full bio on the FSRC website. https://www.uvm.edu/cals/food-systems-research/news/introducing-fsrcs-newest-postdoctoral-research-associates