Alejandro Guarín

Graduate Student
BS 1999 (Biology) Universidad Nacional de Colombia; MS 2003 (Geography) Penn State
Regional focus: Latin America, Colombia

I am interested in food: what we eat, where it's produced, who sells it and why. I study how the agro-food system in the Third World has changed over the last 15 years or so in the context of an increasingly liberalized global economy. Specifically, I'm trying to figure out how the rise of big supermarket chains and the persistence of small neighborhood shops in Bogotá have affected the way in which its nearly 8 million people are fed.

Personal interests

What I REALLY like to do is sing.

Contact information

aguarin@berkeley.edu