Estel铆 Jim茅nez Soto
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Education
2012-2018 Ph.D. in Environmental Studies 鈥� Track: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,
University of California, Santa Cruz. U.S.
2012-2015 M.A. in Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz. U.S.
2006-2011 B.S. in Agroecology. Universidad Aut贸noma Chapingo, M茅xico.
research
I am a Latin American agroecologist working at the intersection of ecology, biodiversity conservation, sustainable agriculture, and food sovereignty. My research draws from a variety of disciplines and concepts including community ecology, political ecology, anthropology, and critical food geography to have a complex and encompassing understanding of social and ecological dynamics within agroecosystems. Much of my work takes place in Latin America, particularly in Chiapas, Mexico, where I study coffee plantations and agroforestry systems. However, I also have agroecological projects in urban farms and community gardens in Tampa, FL. For more information see the
Graduate Students
As part of the agroecology lab, graduate and undergraduate students are generally interested interdisciplinary research to understand the linkages between biodiversity, ecosystem services and human dynamics driving agroecosystem processes. Graduate students in the lab develop independent research within the growing fields of community ecology, agroecology, and political ecology, in a variety of topics of global relevance: biodiversity conservation, ecosy