Resume

• 2013

  Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

  Geography

  University of Toronto

• 2007

  Master of Arts (MA)

  Development Studies

  International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University Rotterdam

• 2002

  Serbo-Croatian

  Spanish

  French

  English

  Bachelor of Science (BS)

  Psychology

  Development Studies

  McGill University

• MA thesis.

  Challenging Neoliberalism: A value chain perspective on the stuggle over governing agriculture in a globalised world

  Rapport sur l’intérêt des producteurs maraîchers de la région de Montréal quant aux modèles associatifs de mise en marché en circuits courts.

  International Trade Law and Local Food Policy in Canada

  Ashraf

  Kausar

  Scaling Up Local Food Systems in Quebec and Ontario

  Ungovernable? Indigenous Campesino Resistance to Land Grabbing in Guatemala’s Polochic Valley

  Analyse de la demande institutionnelle pour l’approvisionnement en circuits courts de la région de Montréal

  Three of my essays were selected for publication in \"An Exercise in Worldmaking: The Institute of Social Studies Best Student Essays of 2007/2008\". Those essays are: \nAre Civil Soceity Actors a Source for Counter-Hegemonic Challenge? (pp. 192-204)\nTwo Cases of Smallholder Agriculture Development: Implications for Public Action from Spain and Peru (pp. 85-95)\nUnfair Trade: The causes of unequal profit distribution within commodity chains (pp.1-8)

  An Exercise in Worldmaking: The Institute of Social Studies Best Student Essays of 2007/2008 (three separate chapters)

  konforti

  (Français ci-dessous / French below) Currently a PhD Candidate and Course Instructor in the Department of Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto. My research and teaching interests include political economy and ecology

  rural development

  agrarian change

  land rights and natural ressource management

  globalisation

  and international development. My current research focuses on a land conflicts between indigenous communities and extractive industries in north-eastern Guatemala. I have previously worked in development cooperation

  project evaluation

  and applied research in the non-profit sector. \n\nCourses taught:\nGGR112 Globalization

  Development

  and Inequality\nGGRD12 Rural Geography and Agrarian Change\n\nLatest publication: Konforti

  L. 2018. Ungovernable? Indigenous Campesino Resistance to Land Grabbing in Guatemala’s Polochic Valley. Latin American Perspectives

  https://doi.org/10.1177/0094582X18813565\n\n--\n\nPrésentement doctorant et instructeur dans le Département de géographie et planification à l’Université de Toronto. En tant que chercheur et enseignant

  je m'intéresse à l'économie et l'écologie politiques

  au développement rural

  au changement agraire

  aux droits fonciers et territoriaux

  à la gestion de ressources naturelles et aménagement du territoire

  à la mondialisation et au développement international. Auparavant

  j'ai travaillée en coopération internationale

  évaluation de projets et recherche appliquée dans le secteur communautaire. \n\nCours universitaires donnés:\nGGR112 Mondialisation

  développement et inégalité \nGGRD12 Géographie rurale et changement agraire\n\nDernière publication: Konforti

  L. 2018. Ungovernable? Indigenous Campesino Resistance to Land Grabbing in Guatemala’s Polochic Valley. Latin American Perspectives

  https://doi.org/10.1177/0094582X18813565\n

  lazar

  konforti

  University of Toronto

  University of Toronto

  Teaching assistant for courses on the global food system and the geography of development. Research interests include new commercial pressures on land

  agrarian transformations

  political economy and ecology of rural development.\n\nSee my summary for additional work experience information.

  Research and Teaching Assistant