Margarida Lima de Faria – Service Area 1 Co-Leader

Margarida is a senior researcher at ISA (Institute of Agronomy of the University of Lisbon, Portugal). In the last 25 years she has taken part in several interdisciplinary projects, some of which funded by the EU, focusing on livelihoods sustainability as related to the adoption of climate-resilient crops, sustainable management of forests (deforestation and forest degradation), natural parks’ social and environmental impact assessment, agroecological zoning (in Tanzania, Botswana, South Africa, Namibia, Guinea-Bissau and Angola). She was one of the social analysts of VCA4D project (coffee in Angola and lime and mango in Guinea-Bissau). She has also taken part in the project CDAIS – Capacity Development for Agriculture Innovation Systems (in Angola).