Adriana
Santos
Rural Development
Participatory Action Research
Extension and Communication
Sustainable agriculture
Biography
Adriana Santos Ordóñez has a degree in Agricultural Engineering from ESPOL, a Master's degree in Rural Development Sciences from the University of Ghent and a PhD from the University of Rennes - Agrocampus Ouest in social sciences applied to agri-food studies. Her area of ??expertise focuses on the Design and facilitation of participatory processes for Action Research in producer organizations, as well as studies related to value chains and sustainable agriculture with an emphasis on agroecology and productive resilience. She is currently a Professor - Researcher at the Faculty of Life Sciences and forms the teaching staff of the Master program in Rural Development and the Agricultural and Biological Engineering undergraduate program. She has been coordinator of the Master program in Rural Development and has participated in research projects on flood risk reduction in the Daule river rice basin, as well as in projects related to the impact of cadmium in cocoa, specifically in the socio-economic component.
Fellow researchers
Eduardo Chávez Navarrete
cocoa pollutants
Byron Moyano
Sustainable development Rural development Socioeconomic research Agricultural extension
Laura Ramirez
Knowledge management and communication for development Development and implementation of methodologies and extension tools Use of ICT for agriculture and development of teaching materials
Daniel Bravo
Microbial thermodynamics Geomicrobiology Microbial ecology Geophysical assessments of cacao crops Bioremediation of cadmium in cacao
Gersain Rengifo
Felipe Montealegre
Economic Valuation of Natural Resources Environmental Economics Natural Resource Economics
Luis Fernando Solano
Biological control Integrated pest and plant disease management Bioprospecting of Biological control agents Quality control of biological products Post harvest treatments Fruit quality
Francisco Arguedas
Soil and plant mineral nutrition Soil fertility Agricultural extension
Guillermo Zambrano
Rural Development Agricultural Economics
Karen Ramirez
Rural Development Agricultural Economics
Victor Sanchez
Knowledge management socioeconomic and technological impact studies Bibliometric studies
Manuel Carrillo
Agroecology Plant Nutrition in tropical crops Soil Management Recovery of degraded areas
Ivan Garzon
Kevin Carrillo
Production of horticultural crops under a protected environment Digital soil mapping Soil fertility and crop nutrition Geographic information systems
