Harriet Friedmann, a professor emerita at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto, is a food system analyst and writer. Retired since 2012, Friedmann pollinates worlds of academia, policy and activism. Beginning at the intersection of rural sociology and world systems, she has progressively engaged with natural sciences and ways of knowing, all through the lens of intertwined histories of monocultures and creative, place-based foodways emerging in their shadows.