Shalom Oshi

Thesis title: Resilient Food Systems and Diets in Rural Scotland

Biography

Background

Eneyi Oshi is a food systems researcher whose work focuses on resilience in rural and island communities. She combines qualitative fieldwork with geospatial and secondary data analysis to study how communities experience and respond to disruptions in their food supply, and how that resilience can be assessed and monitored.

In 2026 she joined the Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Systems as a doctoral researcher, funded by NERC through the E5 Doctoral Training Partnership. Her research develops a community grounded framework for measuring food system resilience at community scale, working across contrasting rural and island communities in the west of Scotland. It draws on interview and participatory methods alongside secondary survey, archival and satellite data, and examines what is gained and lost when a contextual concept such as resilience is translated into a measurement framework.

Prior to beginning her doctorate, Eneyi obtained an MSc in Food Security from the University of Edinburgh, having come to Scotland from Nigeria. She is also co-founder of Agrisiti, an agricultural technology venture working with farming communities across Sub-Saharan Africa on smart farming systems and digital learning platforms. Her wider interests concern the application of geospatial technology, artificial intelligence and digital data tools to food security at community level.

Qualifications

MSc, Food Security, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

BSc, Agricultural Economics and Extension, University of Port-Harcourt, Nigeria

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