Lucía Rivera Lima

Lucía has worked with the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Labour Organization (ILO). She has also worked with the Indigenous Terra Madre network of Slow Food International and is now an Advisory Board member of the Slow Food Coffee Coalition.

Lucía is a Guatemalan anthropologist and sociologist and holds a master’s degree in Development Studies from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. She has focused her career on socio-economic dimensions of the rural and agricultural world, specifically on indigenous peoples' rights, gender inequalities and the interrelated challenges of child labour and youth employment. She firmly believes in making sustainable agri-food value chains more inclusive and in taking in consideration interculturality, intersectionality and participatory approaches.

In her free time, Lucía writes for "Le Grand Continent" about social challenges in Guatemala and Latin America.