Mini-curriculum

Roberto Porro is Brazilian, and holds a degree in Agronomical Engineering from the University of São Paulo (1984). After working for a decade as a practitioner with smallholders in the eastern Amazon (1986-1994), he attended a program in public policy at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas (1994-1995), and then earned a M.A. at University of Floridas Tropical Conservation and Development Program (1995-1997). Subsequently he obtained a doctoral degree in cultural anthropology (UF, 1998-2002). He is currently a researcher at Embrapa Eastern Amazon, where he coordinates studies on rural anthropology with an emphasis on peasantry, land use and environment in the Amazon, economic stratification, agroextractivism and community forest management. He is a permanent faculty of the Postgraduate Program - Master and Doctorate in Family Farming, at the Amazon Institute of Family Agricultures, Federal University of Pará. He worked as a senior researcher at the World Agroforestry Center, Icraf (2003-2011), acting as regional coordinator for Latin America, as well as Executive Secretary of the Amazon Initiative Consortium for Conservation and Rational Use of Natural Resources. He has experience in action research with peasant organizations in Maranhão and Pará states. He published and organized books, and is the first author of several articles in national and international indexed journals.

Education

1981 - 1984

Graduação em Engenharia Agronomica

Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz

Obtained year: 1984

1994 - 1995

Especialização em Public Policy

University of Texas System

Title: Aspectos Socio-Ambientais nas Politicas para o Desenvolvimento Rural na Amazonia Legal

Obtained year: 1995

Advisor: Robert Wilson

1995 - 1997

Mestrado em Latin-American Studies

University of Florida

Title: Remaking Frontiers: Land Tenure Recovery, Collective Action and Survival Strategies of Agro-Extractive Peasants in the Babassu Zone, Brazil

Obtained year: 1997

Advisor: Dr. Anthony Oliver-Smith

1997 - 2002

Doutorado em Antropologia Cultural

University of Florida

Title: Palms, Pastures, and Swidden Fields: Political-Ecological Trajectories and Socio-Natural Transformations in Peasant Communities in Maranhão, Brazil.

Obtained year: 2002

Advisor: Dr. Anthony Olver-Smith

Areas of expertise

1. Grande área: Humanities / Área: Anthropology / Subárea: Antropologia Rural
2. Grande área: Agricultural Sciences / Área: Forest resources and Forest Engineering / Subárea: Ciências Agrárias
3. Grande área: Agricultural Sciences / Área: Forest resources and Forest Engineering / Subárea: Agronomy
4. Grande área: Agricultural Sciences / Área: Forest resources and Forest Engineering / Subárea: Geografia Agrária