Valentina Peveri is an Adjunct Professor for the MA in Food Studies at 91直播 of Rome (AUR). She has a research collaboration with a University Consortium for Socio-Economic and Environmental Research (Consorzio Universitario per la Ricerca Socioeconomica e per l鈥橝mbiente 鈥� CURSA) for the Green Communities PNRR project 鈥淐ommunity Sustainable Resonance (CSR) 鈥� Alta Sabina鈥�; with a focus on qualitative/participatory mapping of Ecosystem Services, the local agrofood system, and the implementation of agroecological practices in an inner area of the Latium region, Italy.
Valentina Peveri was a lecturer and research fellow at the University of Bologna between 2007 and 2015. She was the recipient of a Fulbright Research Scholarship, which she spent at the African Studies Center, Boston University, MA. In 2017, she was awarded a Hunt postdoctoral fellowship by the Wenner-Gren Foundation (2018-19) for the creation of a book entitled听The Edible Gardens of Ethiopia. An Ethnographic Journey into Beauty and Hunger. From 2004 to 2015, she conducted intensive ethnographic fieldwork on home gardening and polycultural farming in Southern Ethiopia. Her ethnographic background has been complemented over time by appointments as an international consultant for the Global Water Partnership (GWP), International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE) Research Program, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), and occasionally the FAO; with a special focus on the role gender and other axes of power play in natural resource and environmental policies.听
Selected Publications
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(2024). Biodiversity is Alive, Biodiversity is Lost: Memories of an Ethiopian Plant from听Homegardens听to the Green Legacy Campaign. In听Embodying Biodiversity: Sensory Conservation as Refuge and Sovereignty, edited by T.V. Gagnon, 182-217.听Tuscon: The University of Arizona Press, ISBN: 9780816553983听
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(2021). Inside the听Ensete听Garden, Beyond the Plantation: Perennial Polycultures for Radically Sustainable Food Systems.听International Journal听of听the Sociology听of Agriculture听and Food, vol. 27, p. 141-159, ISSN: 0798-1759,听doi: 10.48416/ijsaf.v27i1.85听
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(2020).听The Edible Gardens of Ethiopia. An Ethnographic Journey into Beauty and Hunger.听TUCSON:The听University of Arizona Press, ISBN: 9780816541157听
Affiliations
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Research Fellow, University Consortium for Socioeconomic and Environmental Research (CURSA), Rome, Italy听
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Lecturer, University of Gastronomic Sciences (UNISG),听Pollenzo, Italy听
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