Elizabeth Guerrero

Daniela Sclavo is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. She completed her doctoral studies at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, funded by the CONAHCYT-Cambridge Scholarship. Her collaboration with Cocina Colaboratorio started in 2020, where her work centred on co-exploring the conservation of chile pepper in Mexico from the 1970s until the present, especially the ways in which culinary knowledge, generally gendered, plays a fundamental role in the conservation of biocultural diversity – something still overlooked by most environmental and food security research and policy institutions. 

She has then expanded her role in the collective by joining the expansion and strengthening of the Living Biocultural Archive of Santo Domingo Tomaltepec. Daniela will continue co-exploring the relational values, narratives, and affectivities of native crops with different local epistemic groups such as farmers, women cooks, agroecologists, and groups of youth interested in protecting and perpetuating their biocultural heritage. Her passion relies in collectiveness and in bond-building as powerful vehicles towards the co-creation of more just, diverse, and sovereign food systems.