About Andrea

I originally trained as an agronomist within the agrarian systems and compared agriculture school of thought. Through research with different types of institutions and organizations, I have enriched my interests, lenses, and methods to approach questions of change and transformation of social-ecological systems, particularly in rural areas. The geographic focus of my work has mostly been the Andes-Amazon. My current research, conducted within a transdisciplinary team and approach, explores the impacts of land use change and climate change on livelihoods and ecosystem services in landscapes increasingly connected to global commodity chains. I am interested in further pursuing questions on the impacts of these rapid transformations on rural communities in terms of land and natural resource governance systems, livelihood strategies, mobilities, and territorially-specific conceptions of well-being and autonomy.

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Interests

  • Transformations and adaptations of land and natural resource governance systems in the face of globalization and climate change
  • Livelihood strategies, food security/ sovereignty, and multi-residency
  • Territorial multifunctionality and conceptions of autonomy
  • Mobilities and multiple residency
  • Mixed-methods and Q-method

Education

Postdoc, The Natural Capital Project - Stanford University
Palo Alto, CA, 2021-2022

Ph.D., Interdisciplinary Ecology - University of Florida
Gainesville, FL, 2019

Graduate Certificate, Higher Education - Universidad Mayor de San Andrés
La Paz, Bolivia, 2018

M.S., Agricultural Development and Compared Agriculture - AgroParisTech
Paris, France, 2011

B.S., Agricultural Engineering - AgroParisTech and University of Sao Paulo (ESALQ)
Paris, France and Piracicaba, SP, Brazil, 2010-2011

Classe préparatoire, BCPST - Lycée Henri IV
Paris France, 2005-2007

Awards, Honors, Grants

  • WCNR Team Award, 2024
  • Dean’s Grant for Transdisciplinary Approaches to Environmental Wicked Problems - Just Social Ecological Transformations in Latin America Program, 2023
  • PRO-Agua Phase 3: Integrated Watershed and Freshwater Systems Management for Resilience in the Amazon Basin (Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation), 2023
  • Marianne Schmink Outstanding Dissertation Award, 2020

Selected Publications

Participatory Action Research for Conservation and Development: Experiences from the Amazon

  • Perz, S., Arteaga, M., Baudoin Farah, A., Brown, F., Mendoza, E. R. H., Araújo Pereira de Paula, Y., Perales Yabar, L. M., dos Santos Pimentel, A., Ribeiro, S. C., Rioja Ballivián, G., Rosero Peña, M. C., Sanjinez, L. C. & Selaya, N. G. ,

Political ecology explanations for ineffective environmental governance for sustainability in the Amazon: A comparative analysis of cases from Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, and Peru

  • Morales-Giner, P. & Speranza, M. & Arteaga, M. & Baudoin Farah, A. & Ferreira da Fonseca Junior, S. & García Villacorta, A. & Montero Álvarez, P. & Rosero Peña, M. & Perz, S. G.,

Desarrollo de capacidades en transformación de conflictos socioambientales. Teoría y práctica

  • Inturias, M., Baudoin Farah, A., Rodríguez, I. y Wershoven, J. (Eds),

Sustainable land and irrigation management to limit loss of hydropower in the Andes-Amazon headwaters

  • Ding, Z., Angarita, H., Montesinos Cáceres, C., Lavado-Casimiro, W., Goldstein, J., Maier Batista, N., Wu, T., Fisher, D., Baudoin Farah, A., Zheng, H., Schmitt, R. ,

Meanings of indigenous autonomy: Between identity, authority, and integration

  • Baudoin Farah, A.,

Memberships

  • Board of Directors, Institute for the Rural Development of South America (IPDRS)
  • Affiliated researcher, Socio-Economic Research Institure, Bolivian Catholic University (IISEC-UCB)
  • Co-chair of Research Llanos de Moxos Working Group (www.llanosdemoxos.org)

Web Links

Instituto de Investigaciones Socio-Económicas IISEC - Universidad Católica Boliviana

Just Social-Ecological Transformations in Latin America Program

Instituto para el Desarrollo Rural de Sudamerica IPDRS

Grupo de Trabajo para los Llanos de Moxos