Center for InterAmerican Studies

Food systems, natural resources, and invisible environmentals: An analysis from Latin America.

Walter Pengue is one of the founders of the Latin American Scientific Society of Agroecology (SOCLA), of which he is currently responsible for its Ethics Committee. He has been studying for more than 30 years the ecological and socioeconomic impacts of industrial agriculture, transgenic agriculture, and the food system at national, regional, and global levels and their relationship with natural resources (soil, water, genetic resources).

Walter Alberto Pengue is an Agricultural Engineer, with a specialization in Plant Breeding (Phytotechnics) from the University of Buenos Aires. At the same University, he obtained his Master's degree in Environmental and Territorial Policies. D. in Agroecology, Sociology, and Sustainable Rural Development from the School of Agricultural and Forestry Engineers at the University of Cordoba (Spain). He did postdoctoral stays at the Universities of Tromso (Norway) and INBI, University of Canterbury (New Zealand). He is currently a full professor of Ecological Economics and Agroecology at the National University of General Sarmiento (UNGS) and director of the Landscape Ecology and Environment Group (GEPAMA) at the University of Buenos Aires (FADU UBA).

InterAmerican Studies Colloquium together with the colloquium of Global and Entanglement History at Bielefeld University - X-A2-103 (hybrid) 18th June 2024 – 18-20hrs.