Lucas Prates 2025 Thomas Marchione Food-as-a-Human-Right winner

SAFN is honored to recognize Lucas E.A. Prates with the 2025 Thomas Marchione Food as a Human Right award for his ongoing research in Brazil’s Amazon. This annual award is given to a student whose work continues and expands Dr. Marchione’s efforts toward food justice, food security and access, and most directly, food as a human right. It is given to those who are trying to work, in Dr. Marchione’s words, on “the best and more sustainable approaches to fulfill the right to food.”

Prates, a Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology and the Humanities at Princeton University, brings a wealth of experience working in the right to food in Brazil as a legal attorney. His ethnographic research turns the lens of food security to Amazonian “agrarian elites” in order to examine their understanding of their roles in food security and climate change in the region. By focusing on the role of elites, Prates “studies up” (referencing Laura Nader) and may illuminate the barriers and possibilities to achieving the right to food for marginalized communities.

Source: https://foodanthro.com/2025/09/29/safn-announces-2025-thomas-marchione-food-as-a-human-right-winner/

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