Author: Debora Lima

Postdoctoral researcher at University of São Paulo, Brazil. She received a PhD in Geography from the Campinas State University (UNICAMP), Brazil, and was PhD researcher at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana de México from 2016 to 2017. She is a researcher consultant at brazilian social movements, sharing information about acquisitions of farmland by foreign companies, illegal soy farms, land conflicts, and supporting the resistance of peasant, Indigenous and traditional communities (i.e. “quilombolas”, fisherfolk, babassu coconut breakers) communities. She is a Member of Critical Agrarian Development Studies Working Group at Latin American Social Science Council (CLASCO). She worked with the Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST) and garbage collectors from a recyclable waste cooperative from 2010-2012. She was adjunct professor at the Department of Geography at São Paulo State University – Rio Claro (UNESP) in 2016, and adjunct professor in the Department of Public Administration at the Federal University of Ouro Preto (UFOP) (2014-2016). She is the author of the book “Modern grain frontier and the transformations of the agrarian space in Tocantins” (2017) and articles about critical agrarian studies, land conflicts, commodities and land market in brazilian and latian american journals as Ecologia Politica (Spain), La Jornada (Mexico), Revista NERA (Brazil). Her email is deborassumpcaolima@gmail.com; Her Institucional profile is: http://buscatextual.cnpq.br/buscatextual/visualizacv.do?metodo=apresentar&id=K4207878E6 ; and Research gate https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Debora_Lima13