Transforming food systems for a sustainable and just future:
Harnessing agroecology to promote biodiversity and food sovereignty under global environmental change.
Biodiversity conservation in agricultural landscapes: ecosystem services and species interactions.
Our lab is interested in understanding the role of biodiversity in agroecosystems, and how social and ecological communities respond to to agriculture simplification and climate change.
Some questions of interest are:
What factors drive insect community assemblages in agroecosystems and how do these communities contribute to agroecosystem dynamics?
How does agroecosystem management impact insect diversity and ecosystem services?
How does agroecosystem management impact microclimate variation and species interactions?
How do insect communities respond to microclimate variation?
Political Ecology
Our research puts in conversation agroecology and political ecology to examine socio-ecological dynamics in our food system.
Questions of interest are:
How do farmers adapt their agroecosystems to climate change?;
How do farming practices impact farmworkers?;
How do migrant farmworkers exercise their autonomy in plantation systems?
“Agroecology is not just about how we work with the land, but also about how we work with each other as people”
— Peasant Youth of La Via Campesina