Livia Marchetti is a research associate at the University of Florence in the Department of Agricultural, Food, Environmental and Forestry Science and Technology. She earned a master's degree in Horticultural Sciences Science from the Università degli Studi di Bologna (Italy), Technische Universität München (Germany) and Universität für Bodenkultur Wien (Austria), and a master's degree in Agroecology from the Universidad Internacional de Andalucía - UNIA, Sevilla (Spain). She has experience in social agriculture, environmental sustainability, urban agriculture, global Sustainability, rural development, local development, agroforestry, and agroecology.