Quetzalcoatl Orozco Ramirez

He is a researcher at the Institute of Geography at UNAM. He holds a PhD from the University of California, Davis, in Geography. His research has focused on the interaction between culture and native maize diversity, as well as on the social and environmental processes involved in the changes and conservation of agrobiodiversity. His topics of interest are traditional agriculture, land use planning, biodiversity conservation, knowledge, management and in situ conservation of genetic resources for agriculture. He works in the Mixteca Alta, in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico.