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This event is hybrid, to attend online register here.
Join us for the launch of the Winter issue of ReVista, “Agriculture and the Rural Environment”. This issue covers topics ranging from agribusiness to climate change to new alternative crops. It explores the challenges and accomplishments of agriculture in Latin America and the Caribbean today.
Featured speakers include:
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Angie Higuchi, Professor, Universidad del Pacífico, Peru
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Erika Tenorio, Associate Professor on Water Resources at Zamorano, Honduras
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Patricio Winckler, 2023-24 Cisneros Visiting Scholar at Harvard’s David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
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Pablo Lapegna, Associate Professor of Sociology and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Georgia and 2022-23 Peggy Rockefeller DRCLAS Visiting Scholar
Moderated by Gabriela Soto Laveaga, Professor of the History of Science and Antonio Madero Professor for the Study of Mexico.
Biographies
Angie Higuchi is a professor and researcher at the Universidad del Pacífico, Peru. Her research focuses on agriculture and food, especially in rural development, food safety and security and consumption.
Erika Tenorio is an associate professor on water resources at Zamorano. She has coordinated several outreach projects on watershed management, adaptation to climate change and water quality monitoring in the region and coordinates efforts for integrated water management at Zamorano.
Patricio Winckler is a faculty member at the Escuela de Ingeniería Oceánica, Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile, as well as an unpaid artist and leisure writer. He is a 2023-24 Cisneros Visiting Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.
Pablo Lapegna is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Georgia. His book Soybeans and Power: Genetically Modified Crops, Environmental Politics, and Social Movements in Argentina (Oxford University Press, 2016) won the Best Book Award of the Sociology of Development Section, American Sociological Association.
Following the panel discussion, in-person attendees are invited to a reception.
The discussion will be in both Spanish and English.