Speaker: Steve Sherwood, Wageningen University
Originally from the Greater Philadelphia area and with studies in International Development/Economics (Penn State), Plant Pathology/ Adult Education (Cornell University) and the Sociology of Change (Wageningen University), Stephen Sherwood is a part-time farmer and Lecturer and Researcher in Knowledge, Technology and Innovation at Wageningen University, the Netherlands and at Fundación EkoRural in Ecuador. He has lived and worked in Latin America for nearly 30 years and is co-founder of a number of grassroots development initiatives, including Ecuador’s Colectivo Agroecológico and Groundswell International. Steve and his wife, Myriam Paredes, own Granja Urkuwayku, a family-run organic farm in Ecuador, where they are activists in a number of national food movements.