News & Highlights
A chronological record of publications, grants, awards, presentations, and professional milestones.
BlueSky Grant — CGIAR Multifunctional Landscapes Science Program
Awarded a competitive BlueSky research grant from the Multifunctional Landscapes area of CGIAR to pursue innovative, high-risk research on agricultural landscapes.
New paper in Peace and Sustainability
Community seed banks deliver social cohesion and peacebuilding in conflict-affected, climate-vulnerable agricultural contexts: a study from northern Ethiopia.
Journal →Impact of community seed banks on seed security and food access outcomes in Ethiopia
Discover Sustainability (Springer Nature).
Journal →Rural women's voices and gender dynamics in Colombian land restitution policy
Journal of Rural Studies.
Journal →Technology access without impact? An evaluation of Ecuador's input subsidy program for rice
Cogent Food & Agriculture.
Journal →Using landscape approaches to understand peacebuilding policy coherence: a case study of Caquetá
Ecology and Society.
Journal →Advancing sustainable silvopastoral practices for achieving zero deforestation in the Colombian Amazon
Agricultural Systems.
Journal →Coffee cupping as a quality signal: Impacts on smallholder prices and market access in Colombia
Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies.
Journal →Food security and forest access in the Colombian and Peruvian Amazon
Food Security.
Journal →Sweating bullets: Heat, high-stakes evaluations, and the role of incentives
Environmental and Resource Economics.
Journal →Unlocking sustainable livestock production potential in the Colombian Amazon
Scientific Reports.
Journal →Silvopastoral projects in Colombia: Impacts on livestock productivity and deforestation
Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, Palmira.
Slides →Evaluating Alliance Bioversity & CIAT's role in transforming National Food Systems in Vietnam (2023–2030)
MELIA study for the CGIAR CASP program on Climate Information Services.
CGSpace →Methodological handbook for analyzing policy coherence: Enhancing synergies and avoiding redundancies
Co-authored methodological guide for CGIAR and national partners.
CGSpace →Multiple presentations at Alliance Bioversity & CIAT
On rice varietal innovation, silvopastoral practices, gendered dynamics in public policy, community seed banks in Ethiopia, gender and intersectionality in policy, and climate-information systems.
EXPOSENA 2023 — Palmira, Colombia
Invited presentation on Bioeconomy, Food Security, and Sustainability. Presented findings from "Food Systems in Colombia: Coherence in Water, Land, and Food Policies" to policymakers and stakeholders in Valle del Cauca.
Alliance blog →Political coherence among the domains of food, water, and land in Colombia
CGSpace →Una nueva iniciativa global conectará las políticas públicas relacionadas con los sistemas alimentarios en Colombia
CGSpace →ICO Award for Excellence in Coffee-Related Research
International Coffee Organization (ICO). Award promoting high-quality research on emerging issues in the global coffee sector.
Award call →INFER Workshop on Economic Development Thinking the Environment
Coimbra, Portugal.
COLCIENCIAS Doctoral Scholarship
National doctoral scholarship awarded by Minciencias to support PhD studies in Colombia.
Program info →
