Bronwen Powell

Associate Professor of Geography, African Studies and Anthropology

Bronwen Powell

Huck Affiliations

Most Recent Publications

Collard Greens (Brassica oleracea var. viridis) in the Moroccan Oasis

Bronwen Powell, A Ouarghidi, 2025, Economic Botany on p. 1-16

Food environment change on wild food consumption in rural Tanzania

Rasmus Skov Olesen, Bronwen Powell, Charles Joseph Kilawe, Laura Vang Rasmussen, 2024, Food Security on p. 1203-1221

Greater Attention to Wild Foods and Cultural Knowledge Supports Increased Nutrition Outcomes Associated with Agroecology

Stephanie J. Zhu, Tiza Ignatius Mfuni, Bronwen Powell, 2024, Sustainability

Food Security and Nutrition Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA) Highlights of a Decade (2011–2021 Series)

Amy Ickowitz, Stepha McMullin, Ian Dawson, Terry Sunderland, Bronwen Powell, Mulia Nurhasan, Barbara Vinceti, Ramni Jamnadass, Alexandre Meybeck, Vincent Gitz, 2024, on p. 69-99

Adapting food environment frameworks to recognize a wild-cultivated continuum

Lilly Zeitler, Shauna Downs, Bronwen Powell, 2024, Frontiers in Nutrition

Gardening practices in Alaska build on traditional food system foundations

Megan Mucioki, Sean Kelly, Davin Holen, Bronwen Powell, Tikaan Galbreath, Sarah Paterno, Robbi Mixon, Guangqing Chi, 2024, Agriculture and Human Values

Humans and climate modulate fire activity across Ethiopia

Lucas B. Harris, Alan H. Taylor, Habtemariam Kassa, Samson Leta, Bronwen Powell, 2023, Fire Ecology

The need to include wild foods in climate change adaptation strategies

Bronwen Powell, Indra D. Bhatt, Megan Mucioki, Suresh Rana, Sandeep Rawat, Rachel Bezner Kerr, 2023, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Sixth Assessment Report (WGII AR6), Internal Draft of Chapter 5: Food, Fibre, and Other Ecosystem Products

Rachel Bezner Kerr, Toshihiro Hasegawa, Rodel Lasco, et al. (over 70 lead and contributing authors), Bronwen Powell, 2022, on p. 1-354

Transforming food systems with trees and forests

Amy Ickowitz, Stepha McMullin, Todd Rosenstock, Ian Dawson, Dominic Rowland, Bronwen Powell, Kai Mausch, Houria Djoudi, Terry Sunderland, Mulia Nurhasan, Andreea Novak, Vincent Gitz, Alexandre Meybeck, Ramni Jamnadass, Manuel R. Guariguata, Céline Termote, Robert Nasi, 2022, The Lancet Planetary Health on p. e632-e639

Most-Cited Papers

Improving diets with wild and cultivated biodiversity from across the landscape

Bronwen Powell, Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted, Amy Ickowitz, Celine Termote, Terry Sunderland, Anna Herforth, 2015, Food Security on p. 535-554

Agricultural intensification, dietary diversity, and markets in the global food security narrative

A. Ickowitz, B. Powell, D. Rowland, A. Jones, T. Sunderland, 2019, Global Food Security on p. 9-16

Born to eat wild: An integrated conservation approach to secure wild food plants for food security and nutrition

Teresa Borelli, Danny Hunter, Bronwen Powell, Tiziana Ulian, Efisio Mattana, Céline Termote, Lukas Pawera, Daniela Beltrame, Daniela Penafiel, Ayfer Tan, Mary Taylor, Johannes Engels, 2020, Plants on p. 1-37

Forests, trees, and micronutrient-rich food consumption in Indonesia

Amy Ickowitz, Dominic Rowland, Bronwen Powell, Mohammad Agus Salim, Terry Sunderland, 2016, PLoS One

Forest foods and healthy diets: Quantifying the contributions

Dominic Rowland, Amy Ickowitz, Bronwen Powell, Robert Nasi, Terry Sunderland, 2017, Environmental Conservation on p. 102-114

The determinants of dietary diversity and nutrition: Ethnonutrition knowledge of local people in the East Usambara Mountains, Tanzania

Bronwen Powell, Rachel Bezner Kerr, Sera L. Young, Timothy Johns, 2017, Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine on p. 1-23

Dietary transitions among three contemporary hunter-gatherers across the tropics

Victoria Reyes-García, Bronwen Powell, Isabel Díaz-Reviriego, Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares, Sandrine Gallois, Maximilien Gueze, 2019, Food Security on p. 109-122

Conceptual links between landscape diversity and diet diversity: A roadmap for transdisciplinary research

Sarah E. Gergel, Bronwen Powell, Frédéric Baudron, Sylvia L.R. Wood, Jeanine M. Rhemtulla, Gina Kennedy, Laura V. Rasmussen, Amy Ickowitz, Matthew E. Fagan, Erica A.H. Smithwick, Jessica Ranieri, Stephen A. Wood, Jeroen C.J. Groot, Terry C.H. Sunderland, 2020, BioScience on p. 563-575

Testing the Various Pathways Linking Forest Cover to Dietary Diversity in Tropical Landscapes

Frédéric Baudron, Stephanie A. Tomscha, Bronwen Powell, Jeroen C.J. Groot, Sarah E. Gergel, Terry Sunderland, 2019, Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems

Forest pattern, not just amount, influences dietary quality in five African countries

Laura Vang Rasmussen, Matthew E. Fagan, Amy Ickowitz, Sylvia L.R. Wood, Gina Kennedy, Bronwen Powell, Frédéric Baudron, Sarah Gergel, Suhyung Jung, Erica A.H. Smithwick, Terry Sunderland, Stephen Wood, Jeanine M. Rhemtulla, 2019, Global Food Security on p. 1-11