Thanks to the SNF early postdoc mobility grant, I have been a visiting research fellow at the Institute for Science Innovation and Society at the University of Oxford since October 2018. I am currently investigating the socio-technical networks that are deployed around climate ready seeds in Argentina as part of my broader interest in climate change and the politics of technology transfer and adoption in agriculture. I am also working on some articles about different forms of seed saving as a practice of activism, narrative strategies for the monopolisation of seed markets, and agricultural labour in Colombia, some of which will be published soon. This follows a year of work at the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy where I had the opportunity to contribute to the project “Bringing the seed wars to the courtroom: Legal activism and the governance of plant genetic resources in Brazil and India.” I am grateful to the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy for engaging me in this project, as well as of the international workshop on seed activism in Geneva, which gathered leading scholars on the topic from around the world, with an emphasis on Latin America.

Also, as part of my work at the Democracy Centre, I co-organised a workshop on indigenous mobilisation in Latin America that took place during Geneva's Democracy Week in October. Some of the articles that were presented in this workshop by students from different European universities will be published as a special issue in Alternautas, an academic blog and journal dedicated to the critical analysis of development of which I am on the editorial board. I want to highlight the Democracy Centre’s growing interest in Latin America, which is consistent with Albert Hirschman special attention to the region, through the organisation of events and through partnerships with networks such as Alternautas.