Development Studies Workshops 2025 | Ambiente, Alterações Climáticas e Desenvolvimento
The Development Studies Seminars are an initiative that, since 1991, promotes research carried out in the areas of study of the Masters in Development and International Cooperation (MCDI) of ISEG and the PhD Programme in Development Studies of the University of Lisbon
Development Studies Workshops 2025 – Ambiente, Alterações Climáticas e Desenvolvimento
Date: 8 April 2025 (Tuesday)
Time: 6 p.m.
Venue: Novo Banco Room, Quelhas Building – ISEG (Ed. Quelhas, 4th Floor, Rua do Quelhas 6, 1200-781, Lisbon, Portugal)
Presentation #1: Conservação da Biodiversidade vs Desenvolvimento Local: uma abordagem para a integração da biodiversidade no sector da agricultura em Moçambique (speaker: Máriam Abbas, CEsA and Observatório do Meio Rural, Mozambique)
Presentation #2: Climate Change, Environment, and Public Health. Understanding the morbidity and mortality circle in Southeast Nigeria (speakers: Vincent Agulonye, CEsA, and Daniel Adayi, CEsA)
Presentation #3: Entre Clima e a Terra: Percepções e práticas dos pequenos agricultores de Santo Antão (speakers: Sónia Frias, CEsA & ISCSP, and Arlindo Fortes, CEsA)
Free admission, in person event
About the speakers
Máriam Abbas holds a PhD in Development Studies from the Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal. She is a Board Member and researcher at the Observatório do Meio Rural (OMR) in Maputo, Mozambique, where she coordinates the research line “Environment and Rural Areas.” Her main areas of interest include food security, food sovereignty, production systems, climate change, rural development, and agrarian policies.
Vincent Agulonye is a researcher at CEsA. He holds a PhD in Development Studies from ISEG, Universidade de Lisboa. His current research focuses on development trends in Nigeria’s private sector, particularly in the manufacturing industry in Anambra.
Daniel Adayi is a Catholic missionary priest and researcher at CEsA. He obtained his PhD in Development Studies from ISEG, Universidade de Lisboa, in 2019. His current research explores the interaction of institutions in food and water resource management in emerging economies. Adayi lives in London and serves as the parish priest of Saint Michael and Martin Church in Hounslow.
Sónia Frias holds a PhD in Social Sciences – specialising in Anthropology – from the Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas (ISCSP), UTL. She is a tenured Assistant Professor at ISCSP/ULisboa and a researcher at CEsA. She also serves as the President of the African Commission of the Lisbon Geographical Society.
Arlindo Fortes is a PhD candidate in Development Studies at ISEG. He is an Assistant Professor at the University of Cape Verde, where he has served as a board member and coordinator of undergraduate programmes at the School of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. His research focuses on political economy, agrarian economy, agrarian change and rural transformation, agrarian and rural development, public policies, and food security.
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