Luc Mougeot

Luc Mougeot is a Senior Fellow at the University of Ottawa’s School of International Development and Global Studies, Canada (July 2022 – June 2025). Luc worked at Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC) from 1989 to 2021, with various programs to support researchers and their organizations in the global South and in Canada, in fields of social and environmental sciences, natural sciences and engineering, technology and education. Luc’s IDRC programme, Cities Feeding People, supported path breaking research to advance public policies for urban agriculture’s role in urban development. This included supporting, with DGIS, the creation of RUAF in 1999, its growth a global resource network for urban agriculture, and its contribution to key multilateral events and initiatives. Before joining IDRC, Luc was a faculty (associate professor) for 12 years at the Federal University of the State of Pará (Belém), in the Brazilian Amazon region. Luc has directed or supervised research projects, theses and dissertations of more than 35 researchers. He has published more than 70 articles, chapters, reports and books. He is a scientific reviewer for peer-review journals, for research funding agencies in Canada and abroad, and an advisor to international research programmes and networks.