Pasquini, Margaret -

Ecóloga de la University of York en el Reino Unido, con doctorado en Geografía de la University of Durham, donde desarrolló una tesis sobre la gestión de la fertilidad del suelo en agricultura periurbana con riego en Nigeria. Trabajó como investigadora en Bangor University de Gales,donde estuvo encargada de la gestión y la coordinación de proyectos y redes de investigación financiados por el Sixth Framework Programme de la Unión Europea y por el Darwin Initiative del Departamento de Medio Ambiente, Alimentación y Asuntos Rurales (DEFRA, por sus siglas en inglés) del Reino Unido. También se ha desempeñado como docente en la University of Durham y de 2009 a 2013 en el Centro de Estudios Interdisciplinarios sobre Desarrollo de la Universidad de los Andes en Bogotá. Ha realizado consultorías con la Fundación RUAF - Centro de Recursos en Agricultura Urbana y Seguridad Alimentaria. Sus intereses como investigadora se han concentrado en agricultura urbana y periurbana, etnobotánica, rescate de plantas y cultivos ancestrales o subutilizados, y sistemas de conocimiento locales de pequeños productores.

Bibliographic Details

Format:	Online vivo
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Geographic focus:	Colombia
Research areas:	food security | Seguridad alimentaria | Segurança alimentar | food security | See less...
Publications:	The researcher and the field assistant: a cross-disciplinary, cross cultural viewing of positionality | Efficient use of resources: urban waste ash and soil fertility use on the Jos Plateau, Nigeria | Distribución del conocimiento y usos por generción y por género de plantas comestibles en tres comunidades afrodescendientes en Bolívar, Colombia- | Traditional Vegetables In Benin.- | The production of African indigenous vegetables in urban and peri urban agriculture: a comparative analysis of case studies from Benin, Kenya and South Africa | See more... African indigenous vegetables in urban agriculture: recurring themes and policy lessons for the future | Urban agriculture in Mekelle, Tigray State, Ethiopia: principle characteristics, opportunities and constraints for further development- | ‘Jack of all trades’? The negotiation of interdisciplinarity within geography - | Diversity, Geographical, and Consumption Patterns of Traditional Vegetables in Sociolinguistic Communities in Benin: Implications for Domestication and Utilization | Chemical properties of urban waste ash produced by open burning on the Jos Plateau: implications for agriculture - | The use of town refuse ash in urban agriculture around Jos, Nigeria: health and environmental risks.- | A review of urban and peri-urban vegetable production in West Africa- | Traditional Food Plant Knowledge and Use in Three Afro Descendant Communities in the Colombian Caribbean Coast: Part I Generational Differences-. | Production of and trade in African indigenous vegetables in the urban and peri-urban areas of Durban, South Africa - | Traditional Food Plant Knowledge and Use in Three Afro Descendant Communities in the Colombian Caribbean Coast: Part II Drivers of Change.- | Urban food strategies and sustainable regional development: reflections from the Colombian context | The evolution of dry-season irrigated vegetable production between 1982 and 2000 on the Jos Plateau, Nigeria | Meeting grounds: perceiving and defining interdisciplinarity across the arts, social sciences, and sciences | Soil fertility management strategies on the Jos Plateau: the need for integrating 'empirical' and 'scientific' knowledge in agricultural development | The environmental and social impacts of periurban irrigated vegetable production around Jos, Nigeria | Networking to promote the Sustainable Production and Marketing of Indigenous Vegetables through Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa (Indigeno Veg) | Periurban systems under stress in Jos and Kano, Nigeria? New perspectives on resource management and degradation | Supply chains for indigenous vegetables in urban and periurban areas of Uganda and Kenya: a gendered perspective" Vegetable Production And Marketing In Africa | Characterising urban and periurban production systems for African indigenous vegetables in four cities in Benin and Cote d'Ivoire | Historias afrocolombianas sobre plantas comestibles | African Indigenous Vegetables In Urban Agriculture | See less...
Positions:	Director del Centro - Centro de Investigación Obonuco de AGROSAVIA | Research Officer - Bangor University
Investigations:	Conservation of Biodiversity in Traditional West African Vegetable Species | Networking to promote the sustainable production and marketing of indigenous vegetables through urban and peri-urban agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa - IndigenoVeg | El uso alimenticio de plantas nativas y adaptadas por comunidades afrodescendientes en el Caribe Colombiano