Joyce Brandão is a Brazilian socioenvironmental practitioner-researcher, who is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge (Department of Geography), and part of the Conservation and Development Lab which is led by Professor Rachael Garrett.
Her background is Forestry Engineer (University of São Paulo) and holds a master’s degree in Applied Ecology (University of São Paulo). Joyce has a solid background in rural development and sustainable value chains. During her career, she managed several ground and policy-based innovative projects related to multistakeholder partnerships for socially inclusive climate agriculture, zero deforestation policies and landscape governance in Brazil, and technical collaboration with partners in countries from Latin America (Argentina, Colombia, Paraguay), Africa (Ghana, DRC), Asia (China, Indonesia) and, donors in Europe and the United States. She has worked for several civil society organizations such as WWF-BR and Solidaridad.
Her PhD is focused on understanding how political, economic, and institutional conditions have potentially enabled or constrained forest-focused policies in the agri-food supply chain in the Amazon and Cerrado (Brazilian Savanah) biomes. She aims to contribute to policy-making that supports the rise of transformative and equitable sociobioeconomies.
