Coffee Hour with Myriam Paredes
- emorygsg
- Mar 18, 2015
- 1 min read
On Wednesday, April 1st, in Classroom C in the Cox Computing Center, 2pm, join us for an informal Coffee Hour conversation with Ecuadorian sociologist Myriam Paredes Chaucas with extensive interest, research and work on “food sovereignty” in Central and South America. If you’d like to attend, please RSVP here.
Read more about her on her brief bio below:
Born and reared on a farm in the highlands of Ecuador, Myriam Paredes Chauca is a rural sociologist with extensive research experience in Central and South America for over 15 years. Her work combines theory and practice in engaging the multiple dimensions and expressions of “food sovereignty”, a concept that is becoming enshrined in the national constitutions of several Latin American countries as well as increasingly central to global scientific debates on food systems and food security.
With her husband, Stephen Sherwood, Dr. Paredes owns and runs an organic farm near Quito, Ecuador, where they are both involved in supporting rural people’s movements and conservation efforts.
Dr. Paredes is a professor at the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) in Ecuador, where she also coordinates an MSc. Program on Rural and Territorial Development. She holds a PhD in Rural Sociology from Wageningen University in The Netherlands, an MSc in Management of Agricultural Knowledge Systems, and a BSc in Agronomy at the Pan-American School of Agriculture (El Zamorano) in Honduras.
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