Gabriela recently started as a postdoctoral researcher in the LINKAGES project at CEDLA. The project focuses on socio-biodiversity value chains as a means toward a grounded bio-economy in the Brazilian Amazon. Gabriela is interested in how socio-biodiversity value chains can empower alternative food production models based on local, diversified, healthy and culturally-relevant forms of agriculture – as a response to transnational, monocultural, agrochemical-intensive and homogenized large-scale commodity production. Her previous research experiences were on transformation pathways to #sustainability, place-based forest restoration, deforestation and human rights, trade regulations and the socio-environmental impacts of large-scale commodity production, in the Amazon rainforest as well as the Cerrado savanna. 

Local and Indigenous Knowledge for an Amazonian Grounded (Bio) Economy.