Joy Carey

Joy Carey is an Executive Director of RUAF CIC and an independent Sustainable Food Systems Planning consultant, mentor and coach, focused on cities. She has worked in sustainable food and farming with the UK and international organic and local food sectors since 1990. Since 2009, her work has centred on urban and city-region food policy and strategy, including developing complementary monitoring and impact-measurement frameworks with RUAF, FAO and the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact (MUFPP), as well as in her home city of Bristol, UK. She authored Who Feeds Bristol (2011), the city’s baseline food system audit; coordinated the MUFPP indicators pilot with Nairobi, Quito and Antananarivo (2019); authored the MUFPP Practical Handbook for Monitoring City Food Strategies (2021); and contributed to aligning the Barcelona Challenge with the MUFPP monitoring framework (2024/25). Joy is also a founding director of Bristol Food Network, a small not-for-profit organization coordinating Bristol’s collaborative food system change effort, currently structured as the Bristol Good Food 2030 Partnership.