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15.12.2020

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Diego Hernández Muciño

Agroecologist

Diego is a biologist (2009) and a PhD in Biological Sciences (2018) from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Currently, he is doing a postdoctoral research at the Agroecology Lab of the Institute for Research on Ecosystems and Sustainability (IIES-UNAM). His following research topics stand out: the productive restoration of rural and agroforestry landscapes, the integrated and sustainable management of the landscape and the promotion of agroecology and agroforestry as a tool for social change. He has published scientific articles and book chapters on these topics, and developed teaching and training activities for rural producers. Likewise, for more than 10 years he has collaborated with organizations operating productive projects and agroforestry landscape management. He is linked to national and international networks, both academic and non-academic, on ecological restoration, agroforestry, agroecology, transdiscipline and social economy.

Diego has been part of the Colaboratory Kitchen transdiciplinary team since its pilot in 2018, involved in agroecological restoration projects with Food Forests in the ejido of Loma Bonita and Ejido Boca de Chajúl.

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Researchgate

The kitchen is a social place, a com­mon place to gather and connect. It is a place to share not only food, but stories, ideas, aspirations and initiatives. Colaboratory Kitchen is an ongoing mobile and on-site project that brings farmers, scientists, creatives and cooks together around the kitchen table to connect, exchange knowledge and prototype new trans-disciplinary solutions to farming; a test ground for ideas that conciliate land restoration, conservation, food production and better livelihood in farming communities. A response to the lack of connection between disciplines that are key for new alternatives towards more sustain­able and just futures.

The questions at stake are: How do we bridge scientific and local knowledge? What kind of interdisciplinary projects can we create towards a better livelihood and ecological resilience of farmer communities? How can we conserve the environment and its biodiversity in balance with sustainable food production and pair local consumption to global demand?

We create a space for a trans-disciplinary community to grow and take action, by sharing and cooking futures together.

The project was initiated in 2016 as a collaboration between Cascoland and the Forefront Project (WUR, UNAM), a joint effort to design spaces and tools of communication and action towards strengthening socio-ecological bonds, south of the Lacandona Jungle, Chiapas, México. Now a days the scheme is being developed in three rural locations in Mexico: Santo Domingo Tomaltepex, Oaxaca, Xochimilco, Mexico City and Loma Bonita, Chiapas, as a collaboration with UNAM, local organizations and a range of collaborations from professionals in different disciplines.