Linda Kabaira

Linda is a sustainability educator, environmentalist, and sustainable food systems designer working in the fertile intersection of education, transdisciplinary research, agroecology practice and climate change. She leads a generation of regenerative designers and educators in Zimbabwe working in educational institutions and communities across the country in the development of policy guidance related to Education for sustainable development framework and projects strengthening climate change resilience, food security and livelihood development. Her passion is to co-design project-based learning trajectories, supporting young people and their communities, cultures, and traditions to survive rapidly changing environments while enhancing their opportunities to become designers of their desired future. She holds a PhD in Agroecology, Water, and Resilience (Coventry University, UK, and the University of Zimbabwe). MSc Development Studies, BSc Geography and Environmental Studies and Forestry. Since March 2012, she has served as the country coordinator for the Zimbabwe Institute of Permaculture – Schools and Colleges Permaculture (SCOPE) in Zimbabwe.

For her doctoral studies, she investigated the worldviews in sustainable agri-food systems and how they manifest in more sustainable agri-food systems, as well as place-based learning tools and the sense of place of participants in anti-food-poverty initiatives. Her research interests encompass agroecology, food sovereignty in education, rural dimensions, and participatory, feminist, and decolonial approaches, with a particular emphasis on integral story-narrative methods.

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