Maria Borràs Escayola graduated in Biology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (specialization in botany) and obtained a Master’s in Organic Agriculture (specialization in Agroecology) and a Minor in Gender Studies in Production Systems at the University of Wageningen (Countries lows). She has worked as coordinator of the Farm Experience Internship summer course for Stichting Boerengroep (Farmers Foundation) in Wageningen during 2016 and as a teaching assistant for the Department of Farming Systems Ecology at the same university (Wageningen University) during 2018; she also worked as an independent researcher during 2017 at the Experimental Station of Pastures and Forages ‘Indio Hatuey’ (Colón, Cuba) working to strengthen the resilience of Cuban family farms. In 2019, she worked as a technician in the Chair of Agroecology and Food Systems doing research on public policies for adaptation to climate change with a gender focus within the project Sequals: Social-ecological relations and gender equality: Dynamics and processes for transformational change across scales. She is currently doing her doctoral thesis on climate change from a feminist perspective at the Department of Geography at the University of Girona.
Socioecological systems, Resilience, Feminist Political Ecology, Community Economies, Commons, Climate Change, Public Policies, Rural Development, Environmental Sociology.