Valentina Peveri is an Adjunct Professor for the MA in Food Studies at 星空传媒 (AUR). She has a research collaboration with a University Consortium for Socio-Economic and Environmental Research (Consorzio Universitario per la Ricerca Socioeconomica e per l鈥橝mbiente 鈥� CURSA) for the Green Communities PNRR project 鈥淐ommunity Sustainable Resonance (CSR) 鈥� Alta Sabina鈥�; with a focus on qualitative/participatory mapping of Ecosystem Services, the local agrofood system, and the implementation of agroecological practices in an inner area of the Latium region, Italy.
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Valentina Peveri was a lecturer and research fellow at the University of Bologna between 2007 and 2015. She was the recipient of a Fulbright Research Scholarship, which she spent at the African Studies Center, Boston University, MA. In 2017, she was awarded a Hunt postdoctoral fellowship by the Wenner-Gren Foundation (2018-19) for the creation of a book entitled听The Edible Gardens of Ethiopia. An Ethnographic Journey into Beauty and Hunger. From 2004 to 2015, she conducted intensive ethnographic fieldwork on home gardening and polycultural farming in Southern Ethiopia. Her ethnographic background has been complemented over time by appointments as an international consultant for the Global Water Partnership (GWP), International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE) Research Program, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), and occasionally the FAO; with a special focus on the role gender and other axes of power play in natural resource and environmental policies.听
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Selected Publications
Peveri, Valentina (2024). "Biodiversity is Alive, Biodiversity is Lost: Memories of an Ethiopian Plant from Homegardens to the Green Legacy Campaign." In听Embodying Biodiversity: Sensory Conservation as Refuge and Sovereignty, edited by T.V. Gagnon, 182-217. Tuscon: The University of Arizona Press, ISBN: 9780816553983
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(with D. Joshi, A. Nicol, and A. Mitra. 2024). Special Issue for Frontiers in Human Dynamics,听Changing the Discourse: From the Rhetoric on Women and Water to a Feminist Water Agenda.
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Peveri, Valentina (2022). Il Giardino dei sensi e i numeri del potere: biodiversit脿 (plurali) fra resistenza e riscrittura.听L'UOMO, vol. 12, p. 183-210, ISSN: 1125-5862
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Peveri, Valentina (2021). Inside the Ensete Garden, Beyond the Plantation: Perennial Polycultures for Radically Sustainable Food Systems. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE SOCIOLOGY OF AGRICULTURE AND FOOD, vol. 27, p. 141-159, ISSN: 0798-1759, doi: 10.48416/ijsaf.v27i1.85
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Peveri, Valentina (2021). Flavouring the Nation: The Rhetoric of Nutrition Policies in Ethiopia. In: (a cura di): Abbink Jon, LaTosky Shauna,听Rhetoric and Social Relations: Dialectics of Bonding and Contestation, p. 253-282, Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, ISBN: 978-1-78920-977-8, doi: 10.3167/9781789209778
Peveri, Valentina (2020).听The Edible Gardens of Ethiopia. An Ethnographic Journey into Beauty and Hunger. TUCSON:The University of Arizona Press, ISBN:听9780816541157
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Peveri, Valentina (2019). In Praise of a Fermented Bread: An Ethiopian Recipe for Frugal Sustainability. In: (a cura di): Collinson Paul, Young Iain, Antal Lucy, Macbeth Helen,听Food and Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives, p. 157-171, Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, ISBN: 978-1-80073-916-1, doi: 10.3167/9781789202373
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Peveri Valentina (2015). The Exquisite Political Fragrance of Enset. Silent Protest in Southern Ethiopia through Culinary Themes and Variations.听PARTECIPAZIONE E CONFLITTO, vol. 8, p. 555-584, ISSN: 2035-6609, doi: 10.1285/i20356609v8i2p555