Who we are

FEAST is a Japanese non-profit organisation supporting bottom-up sustainable agrifood transitions across Asia. It was founded in 2021 as a successor to the participatory action research FEAST project by a group of core project members. Here’s who we are (in alphabetical order):

Directors and founding members:

Mai Kobayashi

Kyoto University

Steven McGreevy

University of Twente

Kazuhiko Ota

Nagoya University

Christoph Rupprecht

Ehime University

Rika Shinkai

Kyoto University/ Research Institute for Humanity & Nature

Maximilian Spiegelberg

Kassel University – SDG+ Lab

Norie Tamura

Graduate School of Project Design