Adrino Mazenda is an associate professor at the School of Public Management and Administration in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He holds editorial roles as a section associate editor in the Humanities and Social Sciences Communication, Springer, and as a section editor in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, Frontiers Media SA. His research focuses on resilience, risk adaptation, climate change and food systems. Prof Mazenda has received numerous awards for his research contributions and has written extensively on Conversation Africa. He is an NRF-rated researcher from the South African National Research Foundation.