About Dr. Deandrea Smith
Deandrea Smith is an assistant professor of food systems sustainability and resilience in the Department of Bioresource Engineering on the Macdonald campus of McGill University. Prior to joining McGill as a faculty, he held a joint appointment at the Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Chemical Engineering, and the Food Science Department, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Between 2016 and 2020, he served as manager of International Food Systems Development projects at McGill, coordinating projects in Zambia, Malawi, Ethiopia, Bolivia, and Honduras. These projects were focused on enhancing food systems sustainability and strengthening capacity of stakeholders (farmers, farmer cooperatives, food enterprises, Non-Governmental Organizations, local government departments). He completed his PhD at the Bioresource Engineering Department, McGill University, working on circular economy pathways for agro-waste utilization.
Dr. Smith’s research explores the connectivity and dynamics of environmental, economic, and product-process quality to address food system sustainability and resilience. His research focuses on (i) agrifood Life Cycle Sustainability Assessments (environmental LCA, Life Cycle Costing (LCC)/Techno-economic assessments and Social LCA) and identifying hotspot for industrial eco-efficiency improvements, (ii) evaluating pathways for agrifood circularity through techno-eco-environmental modelling and the application of digital twin for optimizing the circular bioeconomy pathways, (iii) development of decision support systems for sustainable healthy food choices and environmental nutrition assessments. Dr Kwofie’s interest is to develop these decision support systems for analyzing trade-offs of the food systems trilemma (food processing techniques, nutritional quality/health implications, and environmental impact) and to promote sustainable and healthy food consumption among consumers.