Mini-curriculum

Researcher A from Embrapa Agrobiologia (Seropédica/RJ, Brazil) focuses on the multifunctionality of food heritage and local biodiversity, with a special emphasis on neglected plants (non-conventional food plants). Her work aims to create opportunities for diversifying urban and rural agroecosystems, with the goal of enhancing ecosystem services, particularly pollination, while facilitating adaptation to climate extremes across multiple landscape scales. She teaches the Agricultural Landscape Ecology course in the Graduate Program in Organic Agriculture (PPGAO). Within the Brazilian Association of Agroecology (ABA), she coordinates the Working Group on Biodiversity and Common Goods. As a member of the State Council for Sustainable Rural Development of Rio de Janeiro, she has collaborated with other researchers, rural and urban farmers, technicians involved in technical assistance and rural extension, as well as representatives from the state environmental agency and traditional communities, contributing to the development of the state policy on agroecology and organic agriculture. She holds a degree in Agronomy from the School of Agronomy at the Federal University of Bahia, a master's degree from the State University of Campinas, and a Ph.D. from the State University of Campinas/University of Paris (Paris 6) _ Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) in Natural Resource Management.

Education

1986 - 1989

Graduação em Agronomia

Escola de Agrônomia da Universidade Federal da Bahia

Obtained year: 1989

1996 - 1996

Especialização em Agroecologia

Organización de Estudios Tropicales

Obtained year: 1996

1991 - 1991

Especialização em Planejamento e Administração de Recursos Naturais

Universidade Católica do Salvador

Obtained year: 1991

1993 - 1995

Mestrado em Engenharia Agrícola

Universidade Estadual de Campinas

Title: Efeito do Cultivo e do Pousio Sobre o Solo e a Vegetação Secundária na Amazônia Oriental

Obtained year: 1995

Advisor: Newton Roberto Boni

1995 - 1999

Doutorado em Engenharia Agrícola

Universidade Estadual de Campinas

Title: Parâmetros de Solo como Indicadores de Sustentabilidade em Agroecossitemas

Obtained year: 1999

Advisor: Newton Roberto Boni UNICAMP/BR) & Patrck Lavelli (IRD/FR)

Areas of expertise

1. Grande área: Biological Sciences / Área: Ecology / Subárea: Ecologia de Paisagens Agrícolas
2. Grande área: Others / Área: Environmental Sciences / Subárea: Manejo da Agrobiodiversidade
3. Grande área: Others / Área: Environmental Sciences / Subárea: Agroecology
4. Grande área: Others / Área: Environmental Sciences / Subárea: Organic Agriculture