xxx Contributors publication on Land Rights and Natural Resources Management. Today, she is engaged in the Phakhaolao- and Story Telling team at TABI. She likes cooking sweet and nutritious Lao recipes for her kids; her main interests are in the area of Lao natural products, especially medicinal plants. Helda Morales (Departamento de Agricultura, Sociedad y Ambiente, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Mexico; http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7583-2125) is researcher and professor in the Agriculture, Society and the Environment Department at El Colegio de la Frontera Sur.
She is from Guatemala City and did graduate work at the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE) in Costa Rica and University of Michigan. Her research has documented the importance of traditional knowledge for sustainable farming and pest prevention. Recently, she has focussed on education and food systems, working with urban and rural growers and farmers markets as well as international organizations. She is a founder and an active member of AMA-AWA, the Alliance of Women in Agroecology, and co-coordinator of Laboratorios para la Vida . Edward Mukiibi (Slow Food International) is Agronomist and Vice President of Slow Food International.
He lives and works in Uganda, where he has created agroecological gardens, Slow Food Presidia, Earth Markets, and a huge network of food communities together with a group of passionate young people. John Kariuki Mwangi (Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity), Vice Presi- dent of the Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity, coordinator of the Slow Food network and projects in Kenya, and councillor for Slow Food representing East, Central, and South Africa. A graduate of the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Pollenzo, John Kariuki has overseen the construction of more than 300 food gardens and the development of the Slow Food Youth Network in his country.
Erick Ngethe (World Agroforestry (ICRAF)) is a project manager working with ICRAF in Nairobi, Kenya. He manages agroforestry for nutrition projects, in- cluding food trees for diversified diets, improved nutrition, and better livelihoods for smallholders in East Africa, and agrobiodiversity and land restoration for the food and nutrition security of smallholder farmers in Eastern Africa. Erick holds an MA degree in development studies from Murdoch University, Australia.
His research focus and interests relate to identifying best approaches for designing, implementing, and managing sustainable agricultural programmes for poverty alleviation, food and nutrition security, and improved livelihoods in Eastern Africa. Samson Kiiru Ngugi (National Slow Food Gardens Project, Kenya) is the national coordinator in the Slow Food Kenya Association. He graduated from the Uni- versity of Gastronomic Sciences in 2014 and is currently the main collaboration