This week UGA will host Dr. Valério Gomes for multiple events on campus.
Dr. Gomes has decades of experience working with social movements, multilateral cooperation programs, international conservation organizations, and government agencies to promote sustainable livelihoods and forest conservation in the Brazilian Amazon. Dr. Gomes is currently a professor with the Amazonian Institute of Family Agricultures (INEAF) at the Federal University of Pará in Belém, Brazil, where he is a key partner of UGA's Brazil Natural Resource Governance Initiative.
In addition to visiting several Anthropology and International Affairs courses, Dr. Gomes will be meeting with graduate students for a coffee hour focused on environment and development across the research/practice divide.
Dr. Gomes will also offer comments at a screening of Tupinambá, a film addressing the struggle for indigenous land rights in Brazil.
Finally, Dr. Gomes will be be participating in a brainstorming meeting with BNRGI members.