I’m a PhD student in ethnobotany, with a passion for conserving biodiversity and improving human livelihoods. I am part of the IEK-Changes team and together with the Tsimane’ people in Bolivia we are researching how Indigenous knowledge of plants is changing and what effect this has on local environmental management and biodiversity conservation. I hold two MSc degrees: one in Forest and Nature Conservation and one in Ethnobotany, both from Wageningen University, the Netherlands. My previous research is varied but has always been focussed on Indigenous and local environmental knowledge – the nexus of human culture and biology. I have studied agroforestry systems of the Kichwa people in the Ecuadorian Amazon, worked with the Taruma people in Guyana to retrace their past through linguistics and plant knowledge, and advised botanical gardens on the topic of decolonisation.
The IEK-CHANGES project is an ERC Starting Grant funded by the European Union (IEK-CHANGES, 101117423) to Dr. Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares.
Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Council Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
El proyecto IEK-CHANGES es una beca «Starting Grant» del Consejo Europeo de Investigación (ERC) financiada por la Unión Europea (IEK-CHANGES, 101117423) y concedida al Dr. Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares.
No obstante, las opiniones y puntos de vista expresados son exclusivamente de los autores y no reflejan necesariamente los de la Unión Europea ni los de la Agencia Ejecutiva del Consejo Europeo de Investigación. Ni la Unión Europea ni la autoridad que concede la subvención se hacen responsables de los mismos.
