Alonso Gutiérrez Navarro is studying for the Ph.D. in Rural Development and is a professor at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana -Xochimilco. He studied Biology at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). He received his Master’s degree from the Colegio de la Frontera Sur, where he researched peasant perspectives on fire management in an environmental conservation reserve. He is also a professor in the postgraduate program in Biological Sciences at UNAM and the Master’s program in Agroecology, Food Sovereignty, and Territory at UCI-Red, Puebla. He studies peasant strategies in the appropriation of agroecological practices in the Sierra Norte de Puebla with the Centro de Estudios para el Desarrollo Rural (CESDER). At CESDER, he coordinates “La Cañada”, an Agroecological Center for Exchange, Experimentation, and Dialogue of knowledge, and teaches undergraduate courses to young peasants in the region and the neighboring states. He has gained experience by teaching for several years undergraduate courses in Agroecology at the Faculty of Sciences of UNAM, and doing research on Biology from a dialectical approach at this University. This has allowed him to form a team of students from UNAM that, together with CESDER, studies different Agroecology aspects with the participatory action-research methodology linking both institutions. This experience has resulted in several theses, articles, and funding for the development of research. He has participated in the elaboration of environmental expert reports on megaprojects such as the Mayan Train and is editor of Metabólica, an independent magazine that focuses on environmental critique.
Recently been co-author with René Olvera Salinas of ” Legacy of the peoples and communities zapatistas to the struggle for Land and Life in the face of the Storm” and translated Moving Beyond Capitalist Agriculture: Could Agroecology Prevent Further Pandemics? from Daraja Press in 2023.
His paper profile can be reviewed here
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The Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists from the Global South (CASAS) is a community of Scholar-Activists working in critical agrarian studies.