Affiliates
Los miembros afiliados son personas- investigadores, técnicos o activistas- que trabajan con miembros de la junta directiva en acciones o proyectos específicos. El programa de Afiliados permite establecer vínculos entre individuos que comparten visiones, intereses y método de trabajo en diferentes regiones.
Alex Álvarez (Peru) is an anthropologist specializing in indigenous resource management, governance, development and property rights. He is a doctoral candidate at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, based on his research on indigenous environmental governance and property rights in the Amarakaeri Comunal Reserve, Madre de Dios, Peru. He serves a voluntary advisor to the regional indigenous federation, FENAMAD, since 2006, on matters relating to land rights, cultural landscapes and resource conservation, particularly in the context of ongoing oil and gas development.
Elysa Hammond (United States) is an ecologist working at the organic nutrition Clif Bar & Company, Berkeley, California. She is founder of the company's sustainability program and oversees company efforts to reduce its environmental impact. Elysa is the editor of the Clif Bar Moving Toward Sustainability newsletter and serves as an advisor to the Clif Bar Family Foundation environmental grant program. She is part of the National Teach-in on Global Warming Solutions council, dealing with issues relating to climate change. Elysa is an honorary researchy associate at the New York Botanical Garden's Institute of Economic Botany. She edited the book The Cultural Uses of Plants: A Guide to Learning about Ethnobotany (2000), by Gabriell DeBear Paye. She has a Masters in Forestry from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and has conducted research on traditional agricultural systems in Peru and Indonesia. She is currently a doctoral candidate at Yale, conducting research on the transition between swamp forest to agroforestry system in West Kalimantan, Indonesia.
Didier Lacaze (Ecuador)
Didier Lacaze (Ecuador) is a consultant and practitioner specializing in traditional medicine, shamanism and medicinal plants. He has over twenty-five years of experience working with regional and national indigenous federations in Amazonian Peru and Ecuador on indigenous health care programs, including AMETRA 2001 (Aplicación de Medicina Tradicional, Peru, 1985 -1991), PSI (Programa de Salud Indígena, Peru, 1994 – 1998) and “Programa de Salud Indígena” (PSI), and DMT (Departamento de Medicina Tradicional, Ecuador 2000- 2005). He currently runs Florasana, a small family-based enterprise in in Puyo (Ecuador) that cultivates medicinal plants and prepares an assortment of herbal products. Florasana also supports a program for the promotion of traditional medicine (PROMETRA) among indigenous people in Ecuadorian Amazon, training local health workers on the use of medicinal plants and working with officials within the medical establishment to promote a better understanding and appreciation of the value and importance of traditional health care delivery systems. Didier also teaches in a number of institutions in Ecuador and abroad, including the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar (Quito, Ecuador), Universidad de las Nacionalidades Indígenas de la Amazonía Ecuatoriana Pastaza, Ecuador), and the Scottish School of Herbal Medicine.
Rebecca McLain (United States) is a natural resource policy analyst and cultural geographer specializing in participatory governance structures, environmental justice, and the links between natural resource tenure and environmental management practices. She has an interdisciplinary PhD from the College of Forest Resources at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA. She is co-founder of the Institute for Culture and Ecology, a nonprofit organization that specializes in
research and education on the social aspects of environmental management issues.
Heather McMillen (United States) has a PhD from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Hawai'i at M'noa. Her foci are medical anthropology, environmental anthropology, and ethnobotany. Over the last decade her research in Tanzania, East Africa has explored the intersections of local ethnomedical practitioners and biomedical practitioners, medicinal plant management and trade, and conservation.
Dario Novellino is an anthropologist and an honorary research fellow at the University of Kent’s Department of Anthropology, with with a long-standing involvement with indigenous communities in Palawan and Southeast Asia. He is currently collaborating with PPI’s Cultural Landscapes Program as part of a broader initiative, linking local peoples from different parts of the world and using participatory video to allow their voices to be heard at a policy level (for more information, click here). For a more-in depth biographical profile, click here. For a list of Novellino's recent academic publications, click here.
Alan Pierce (United States) is an independent researcher specializing in forest policy, subsistence use of forests and ecological literacy. He is a PhD candidate at Antioch University New England. His doctoral research examines contemporary gathering traditions in Vermont and the reasons for their persistence or decline. Over the past 15 years Alan has worked as a consultant with a number of international NGOs to create policy frameworks for the sustainable harvest and trade of non-timber forest products. For a list of Pierce’s publications, please click here.
Daniel Rodriguez is an anthropologist actively involved on a broad range of issues relating to indigenous rights in the Madre de Dios river basin in SE Peru. Most of his work has been developed within indigenous organizations, in particular advising FENAMAD (Federación Nativa del Madre de Dios) on the impacts of gold mining and oil and gas concessions, and mining on voluntarily isolated indigenous peoples. He has worked with the Ese Eja people in Peru and Bolivia and PPI's Cultural Landscapes and Resource Rights Program since 2005.
Tamara Ticktin (United States) is an ethnoecologist, and associate professor of Botany at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. Her interests center on the relationships between human communities and biological conservation. Her work focuses on assessing the ecological impacts of local and indigenous resource management practices and their implications for the conservation. Most of her work involves close collaboration with local communities and participatory research methods. She has carried out collaborative research in parts of Latin America, Asia, Africa and Hawai'i, and is Senior Associate Editor of the journal Economic Botany. For a list of Ticktin's publications, click here.
Tarin Toledo’s (Mexico) interests lie mainly in the research and development of ecological bases from which to implement sustainable forest management practices. In 2006 she undertook a PhD in Forest Ecology from University of Aberdeen, UK during which she evaluated the effects of lianas on the regeneration of commercial tree species in tropical forest in Ghana. She has worked for Smart Wood / CCMSS conducting evaluations of forest certification in various communities in Mexico. At present, she is carrying out a diagnostic of tropical montane cloud forest in Mexico considering the main threats and opportunities for the maintenance of this severely endangered ecosystem. She participates in a study aimed at the evaluation of the impact of timber harvesting on the regeneration status of commercial trees in certified communities in Selva Maya, Mexico. She is also engaged in a project directed at the development of sustainable harvesting techniques of epiphytes in tropical montane cloud forest in Veracruz, Mexico. For a list of Toledo's publications, click here.
Rachel Wynberg (South Africa) is a natural scientist and environmental policy analyst, specialising in the commercialization and trade of biodiversity, and the integration of social justice into biodiversity concerns. She holds a PhD from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow and is currently based at the Environmental Evaluation Unit, University of Cape Town. Over the past 15 years Rachel has worked closely with governments and NGOs in southern Africa to formulate appropriate policy frameworks for biotrade, access and benefit-sharing; intellectual property rights and traditional knowledge; and community-based natural resource management. She is actively involved in civil society movements, and is trustee and founding member of two South African NGOs, the Environmental Monitoring Group, and Biowatch South Africa. For a list of Wynberg's publications, click here.