Nathan Einbinder

My background is in agroecology and human geography. For the past 15 years I have worked in the Maya-Achí territory in Guatemala, researching traditional agriculture and community development, and accompanying farmers organisations working to restore agroecological practices and the local food system.

My work here began as a human rights observer. I also belonged to a group of academics studying some of the problems that were developing from international projects in indigenous areas, including mining and hydroelectric schemes. My master’s research concerned the displacement of indigenous people and violence committed against them during the 1980s. My interests soon led me towards local food and farming systems.

Through a university in Mexico called El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, I conducted my PhD investigating the drivers and barriers of adoption and preservation of agroecological practices in the Maya-Achi territory. I continue to conduct agroecology research in Guatemala and in southwest England, where I led a Regenerative Agriculture MSc at Schumacher College and am now a Research Fellow at the University of Plymouth.