Miguel Altieri

Miguel Altieri is a Professor of Agroecology at the University of California, Berkeley in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management. He received a BS in Agronomy from the University of Chile and holds a Ph.D. in Entomology from the University of Florida.

He teaches courses in agroecology, agroforestry and urban agriculture. He is an advocate of sustainable agriculture and is highly critical of large agribusiness corporations such as Cargill, Monsanto, and ADM. He conducts most of his research in California and Chile working closely with farmers and workers to implement principles of integrated pest management, biological control and other sustainable practices. He is set to retire within the next few years.

According to Agroecology in Action, Miguel Altieri's personal site, Altieri served as a Scientific Advisor to the Latin American Consortium on Agroecology and Development (CLADES) Chile an NGO network promoting agroecology as a strategy for small farm sustainable development in the region. He also served for 4 years as the General Coordinator for the United Nations Development Programme’s Sustainable Agriculture Networking and Extension Programme which aimed at capacity building on agroecology among NGOs and the scaling-up of successful local sustainable agricultural initiatives in Africa, Latin America and Asia In addition he was the chairman of the NGO committee of the Consultative Group on International Agriculture Research whose mission was to make sure thar the research agenda of the 15 International Agricultural Research Centers benefited the poor farmers of the. He also was Director of the US-Brasil Consortium on Agroecology and Sustainable Rural Development (CASRD) an academic-research exchange program involving students and faculty of UC Berkeley, University of Nebraska, UNICAMP and Universidad Federal de Santa Catarina. Currently he is advisor to the FAO-GIAHS program (Globally Ingenious Agricultural Heritage Systems) a program devoted at identifying and dynamically conserving traditional farming systems in the developing world. He is also the President of the Latin American Scientific Society of Agroecology. ^[1]

Altieri is the author of more than 200 publications, and numerous books including Agroecology: The Science of Sustainable Agriculture and Biodiversity, Pest Management in Agroecosystems and Agroecology and the Search for a Truly Sustainable Agriculture. ^[1]

External links

1. ^ ^{a b} {{cite web|title=Biography|url=http://agroeco.org/miguel-altieri/%7Cwork=Agroecology in Action|accessdate=24 Jun

• "Miguel Altieri on industrial agriculture and agroecology". Global Public Media. http://www.globalpublicmedia.com/miguel_altieri_on_industrial_agriculture_and_agroecology. Retrieved 2009-11-05. 
• Schoch, Russel. "A Conversation with Miguel Altieri". Mindfully.org. http://www.mindfully.org/GE/GE2/Miguel-Altieri-Agroecology.htm. Retrieved 2009-11-05. 
• "Miguel Altieri". Global Alternatives. http://globalalternatives.org/taxonomy/term/12. Retrieved 2009-11-05. 
• http://agroecology.berkeley.edu/
• http://ecnr.berkeley.edu/facPage/dispFP.php?I=490
• http://www.un.org/ga/president/63/interactive/globalfoodcrisis/MiguelAltieri.pdf
• http://agroeco.org/ Personal Site

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