Vong Nanhthavong is a senior research scientist on the governance of land investments at the Centre for Development and Environment Lao Country Office, University of Bern. His research interests include agrarian transitions, quality of land investment, rural employment, human well-being, and sustainable finance. Recently, he has been active in science-policy engagement on land investments in…
Multidisciplinary practitioner with more than 10 years of working experience in the rural development sector, including state interventions, global value chain studies, and farmer organizations analysis. I hold a PhD in Rural Sociology from Wageningen University, the Netherlands, and a Master’s in International Politics (Globalization, Poverty and Development) from Newcastle University, United Kingdom. I have…
Chukwuma Ume is a lecturer at the University of Nigeria. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of Nigeria and pursued his Master of Science degree in Environment and Development at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. Currently, he is undertaking his PhD at the Center for…
Julio Gutiérrez is a Ph.D. candidate in anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is originally from El Salvador. His research interest focuses on the political ecology of financialization, particularly the relationship between speculative urbanism and resource grabbing in Central America. His dissertation project explores the process of gentrification in Cordillera…
Estevan Coca is an Assistant Professor of the Institute of Natural Sciences at the Federal University of Alfenas, where he teaches graduate and undergraduate Geography, and a Research Associate of the Territorial Development in America Latin America and the Caribbean (TerritoriAL) Graduate Program at São Paulo State University. Estevan’s research is focused on Critical Agrarian…