Research: Between food security and energy security: Territorial conflicts and access to land in Italy's energy transition
Irene Boccia is a geographer and PhD candidate in Peace Studies at Sapienza University of Rome, within the curriculum Space, Territories, Resources and Narratives from a Peace Perspective. She has research experience in agriculture and food systems, focusing on territorial analysis, agricultural systems and the transformations of local food systems. Her work involves GIS, geospatial data analysis and participatory mapping, developed through research projects at the University of Turin. Her doctoral project, "Between Food Security and Energy Security: Territorial Conflicts and Access to Land in Italy's Energy Transition", aim to investigate territorial conflicts and changes in access to agricultural land associated with the expansion of agrivoltaics in Italy, focusing on the intersections between food security, energy transition and territorial justice.