Pablo Pacheco

Pablo has an interdisciplinary background. He holds a B.A. in Sociology, a M.Sc. in Agricultural Economics and a Ph.D. in Geography from the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University, MA, USA. His research interests include the human dimensions of global environmental change, implications of trade and investment for forests and people, land and forests governance, regional development and land-use change, and institutions for forest resources management. He is currently conducting global research on the implications of globalized trade and investment on forests, people’s livelihoods and economic development, and the associated state and non-state responses towards building multi-scale governance systems to manage their social, economic and environmental impacts and trade-offs. Before working with CIFOR he worked at the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA).