Chiara Paffarini received her Ph.D. in Policy and Economics of Food Systems at the University of Perugia (Italy). Previously, she obtained a Master of Science (MSc) in Agricultural Science and Technology, Agriculture and Rural Development (Major: Economics and Management of farming and food processing systems) at the University of Perugia. She is now a temporary research associate at the Department of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences of the University of Perugia. Her main fields of interest and research are organic agriculture, agro-economics, social entrepreneurship in food chains, peri-urban agriculture, and social farming. She has dedicated herself to research, teaching, and training, and applying her approaches to communities, local institutions, food companies, and farmers in several social agriculture projects. Currently, she teaches "social farming" and she is a teaching assistant on the "Agricultural Policy and Economics" course. She is the author of over 40 national and international publications and several papers presented at conferences/congresses.