Author: Tania Eulalia Martinez Cruz

Tania Eulalia Martinez-Cruz is an interdisciplinary researcher and indigenous Ëyuujk woman. Currently, she works as a consultant for the Indigenous Peoples´ Unit at FAO, and she is an associate researcher at the Free University of Brussels collaborating on the ‘SeedsValues project. She also continues a collaboration with the University of Greenwich working on intercultural models to improve nutrition in the Peruvian Amazon. She is also a board member of the Indigenous Partnership for Agrobiodiversity and Food Sovereignty and the Global Hub on Indigenous Peoples´ Food Systems. She holds a B.Sc. in Irrigation Engineering from Chapingo Autonomous University, an MSc. in Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering from the University of Arizona, and a PhD in social sciences from Wageningen University in the Netherlands. Tania has collaborated in international development for more than 10 years and has engaged in projects on sanitary engineering, biofuels production, water management and irrigation, agricultural research and development, climate justice, gender and social inclusion, nutrition, and food security/sovereignty. As an Ëyuujk Indigenous woman from Mexico and researcher, Tania also promotes the conservation of indigenous knowledge as key to the biocultural diversity of Indigenous Peoples and especially concerning food and nutrition security and sovereignty. She has spoken about those issues in several spaces, including the UNFSS2021 Summit and several events linked to COP26. On January 1st, 2020 she also received her ‘baston de mando’ (a symbolic wooden cane used to confer authority in some indigenous communities) to fulfil a year of community service as the Secretary of the Women’s Office in her hometown of Tamazulapam del Espiritu Santo. During her one-year term, she supported the Women’s Office in issues related to the welfare of women in her community.   E-mail: tania@taniamartinez.org Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tania_Martinez-Cruz Website: https://taniamartinez.org/  Twitter: https://twitter.com/tania_eulalia