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V. Ernesto Mendez Home  Directory V. Ernesto Mendez
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V. Ernesto Mendez
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Assistant Professor of Agroecology & Environmental Studies, University of Vermont |
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Alumni |
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emendez@uvm.edu |
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(802) 656-2539 Office |
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http://www.uvm.edu/~emendez/ |
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The research and teaching efforts of my group focus on developing and applying interdisciplinary approaches that analyze interactions between agriculture, livelihoods, and environmental conservation in tropical and temperate rural landscapes. Most of this work also utilizes a Participatory Action Research Approach (PAR), in an effort to directly support conservation and rural development. |
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Selected Publications
Mendez, V.E. (forthcoming) Agroecology In B. Warf (ed) Encyclopedia of Geography. Sage Publications: Thousand Oaks, California.
Mendez, V. E. (2008) Farmer livelihoods and biodiversity conservation in a coffee landscape of El Salvador. pp. 207-236. In C. M. Bacon, V. E. Mendez, S.R. Gliessman, D. Goodman & J. A. Fox (eds.) Confronting the coffee crisis: Fair Trade, sustainable livelihoods and ecosystems in Mexico and Central America. MIT Press: Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
Bacon, C.M., V. E. Mendez, S.R. Gliessman, D. Goodman & J. A. Fox (eds.) Confronting the coffee crisis: Fair Trade, sustainable livelihoods and ecosystems in Mexico and Central America. MIT Press: Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
Mendez, V. E., S.R. Gliessman, and G.S. Gilbert (2007) Tree biodiversity in farmer cooperatives of a shade coffee landscape in western El Salvador. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 119(1-2):145-159.
Mendez, V.E. & S.T. Lovell (2007) Ecosystem Services Conservation and Farmer Livelihoods in a Shade Coffee Landscape of Western El Salvador. Electronic Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on “Multi-Strata Agroforestry Systems with Perennial Crops: Making ecosystem services count for farmers, consumers and the environment.” September 17 – 21, 2007. CATIE, Turrialba, Costa Rica.
Bacon, C., V. E. Mendez & M. Brown (2005) Participatory action-research and support for community development and conservation: examples from shade coffee landscapes of El Salvador and Nicaragua. Research Brief # 6. Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems (CASFS), University of California: Santa Cruz, CA, U.S.A. Download from: http://repositories.cdlib.org/casfs/rb/brief_no6/10
Mendez V.E., R. Lok & E. Somarriba (2001) Interdisciplinary analysis of homegardens in Nicaragua: micro-zonation, plant use and socioeconomic importance. Agroforestry Systems 51(2): 85-96. |
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