Fabricio Muriana holds degrees in communication and philosophy, along with a Master’s degree in social change and political participation. Since 2017, he has been actively involved in agroecological food systems as a co-founder of Instituto Feira Livre. In 2020, he became one of the key leaders at Instituto Regenera, where he focuses on promoting agroecological approaches to food systems in two major regions in Brazil. He participates in global fora, such as the climate and biodiversity COPs, to advocate for agroecological approaches to food systems transformation, and linking the global to the local.

Colleen Anderson has been with the South African Organic Sector Organisation since 2015, initially as a volunteer for the Secretariat and later as Project Coordinator of the activities of the Knowledge Hub for Organic Agriculture in Southern Africa (KHSA), of which SAOSO was the South African node. She is a founding member of the SAOSO Foundation. During the roll-out of the Knowledge Hub project over a four-year period, SAOSO’s focus was on expanding PGS in South Africa, establishing 20 groups representing 1,500 farmers. She is an advocate for clean, nutritious food and believes that everyone is entitled to this basic human right. She was drawn to SAOSO, which represents the core principles of organic agriculture: health, ecology, fairness, and care. She has worked largely in the NGO and university sectors, where her role was to project-manage large, multi-donor grants for regional collaboration among universities, as well as a seven-year DFID-funded SADC-based programme to mitigate the effects of climate change on food security.