Paulina Flores-MartÃnez
SEI Affiliated Researcher
Profile
Biography
Paulina is an Affiliated Researcher at SEI York.
Her PhD involved researcher working with the Sustainable Consumption and Production group. Her thesis is entitled “The governance of sustainability in Mexico’s agro-export sector: A global value chain approach”. She was supervised by Chris West and Prof Tony Heron of the Dept of Politics at the University of York.
Her research investigated the governance of sustainability with respect to Mexico’s agro-export sector. Specifically, it explored the participation of Mexican farmers and agri-businesses in global value chains (GVCs), in the face of increasing evidence of strong linkages between agriculture, climate change and biodiversity loss. Globally, agriculture is among the largest contributors to man-made climate change, principally through land use change (deforestation) and methane gas emissions. These effects are having significant feedback loops for the sustainability of agriculture itself, especially through increased water scarcity and soil degradation. Her work examined and measured actions to mitigate these feedback loops by using a global value chain (GVC) approach.
Paulina has a Master’s degree in Administration and Public Policy, 2014 – 2016, from Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), Mexico City and a Bachelor’s in Economics (2008 – 2013) Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo (UMSNH), Michoacán, Mexico.
