Eduardo Loeza

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Loaeza-Vásquez is a plant specialist and activist of the Chatino indigenous group, originally from the rural community of Santiago Cuixtla. Their work, they say, aims to ‘contribute to the renaissance of ethnic crops focused on their nutritious and medicinal value’ in Oaxaca. This they believe will ‘promote, with a gender lens, a sensitive nutrition education among indigenous – poor – and vulnerable populations.’ Their work incorporates agriculture, issues of food security and nutrition, socio-cultural epidemiology, questions of decolonisation, ethics of care and the sociology of the body. ‘I identify myself as a non-binary agronomist,’ they say. ‘I do this work as a way of healing my own trauma of having grew up in extreme poverty.