Moderator and Speaker Bios
Matt Abel is an economic anthropologist whose work centers on the relationship between environmental governance and shifting global trade regimes with a focus on the Brazilian Amazon. He is an assistant professor of anthropology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He is a researcher collaborator with the Rethinking the Global Soy Dilemma project and is conducting fieldwork on Brazil's "Northern Arc" — an effort to transform the Amazon's southern tributaries into a transnational shipping corridor for soybeans and corn.
Stasiek Czaplicki Cabezas is a Bolivian environmental economist, focusing primarily on the drivers of deforestation, especially those linked to commodity frontiers (soy and cattle), land tenure dynamics, and public policy. He works as an independent researcher, journalist, and activist, and is currently co-leading a book project on the agribusiness development model in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. He is also an associated researcher from the Centro de Estudios Populares (CEESP) and Catholic University.
Comments (0)