(PhD, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a senior expert in food security and agriculture who has done extensive consulting work for international agencies such as FAO, IFAD, ILO and others. He wrote this book as an Associate Researcher at the CIUP research centre, Universidad del Pacífico (Lima, Peru). He had previously been a professor in various universities of Argentina, and is also the author of several books on food, agriculture, poverty; another of his research interests is the methodology of scientific research.​