Elena Lazos

Professor-Researcher at the Institute of Social Research, UNAM since 1992. Biologist (UNAM), Master Social Anthropology (ENAH) and Doctorate Socio-economics of Development (EHESS, Paris). Her lines of research have been in Political ecology around the conservation of agrodiversity and food sovereignty, Perceptions about transgenic corn, Gender and rurality, Socio-environmental vulnerabilities to climate change, Culture and power. Author and co-author of 8 books and 125 scientific articles and book chapters. Holder of 70 courses in Mexico, France, Switzerland, Canada, Bolivia, Ecuador, Brazil, Greece, Germany. Director of 70 theses. Holder of Latin American Chairs in Montreal, Zürich and La Sorbonne, Paris. President of the GreenpeaceMéx Advisory Council and AGTER Council (France). Co-founder of the Social Studies Network on the Environment. Co-coordinator of the CLACSO Group “Common goods and free access to knowledge.” Author at IPBES. Among others, some of her projects have been “Role of Biodiversity in Climate Change” – funded by the European Union. “Threats and vulnerabilities in the Mexican countryside: Agrobiodiversity, seeds, migration and climate change,” funded by UNAM. “Knowledge Networks in Yucatán” financed by CONACyT.

In Colaboratory Kitchen she has been part of the co-design of the project since 2020 and in the methodological co-design from a transdisciplinary view.

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