Bronwen Powell

Associate Professor of Geography, African Studies and Anthropology

Bronwen Powell

Huck Affiliations

Most Recent Publications

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

Adapting food environment frameworks to recognize a wild-cultivated continuum

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

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

Deforestation reduces fruit and vegetable consumption in rural Tanzania

Charlotte M. Hall, Laura Vang Rasmussen, Bronwen Powell, Cecilie Dyngeland, Suhyun Jung, Rasmus Skov Olesen, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Transformational Change of Food Systems Requires More Attention to Trees and Forests

Amy Ickowitz, Stepha McMullin, Todd Rosenstock, Ian Dawson, Dominic Rowland, Bronwen Powell, Kai Mausch, Houria Djoudi, Terry Sunderland, Mulia Nurhasan, Andreea Nowak, Vincent Gitz, Alexandre Meybeck, Ramni Jamnadass, 2022, Lancet Planetary Health

Determinants of Smallholder Maintenance of Crop Diversity in Morocco’s High Atlas Mountains

Zachary A. Goldberg, Bronwen Powell, Abderrahim Ouarghidi, 2021, Human Ecology on p. 453-465

Editorial: Impacts of Tropical Landscape Change on Human Diet and Local Food Systems

Amy Ickowitz, Bronwen Powell, Laura Rasmussen, Jeanine Rhemtulla, 2021, Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems on p. 5

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

Dietary quality and tree cover in Africa

Amy Ickowitz, Bronwen Powell, Mohammad A. Salim, Terry C.H. Sunderland, 2014, Global Environmental Change on p. 287-294

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wild leafy vegetable use and knowledge across multiple sites in Morocco: A case study for transmission of local knowledge?

Bronwen Powell, Abderrahim Ouarghidi, Timothy Johns, Mohamed Ibn Tattou, Pablo Eyzaguirre, 2014, Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

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