Gustavo Meyer

Gustavo Meyer is graduated at University of São Paulo and has worked in research and development projects involving rural subjects. He worked in the Ministry of the Environment (themes of Water Resources Policies and Sustainable Rural Development) and Embrapa Amazônia Oriental (as researcher, in topics related to production systems, rural development strategies and extension in family fish farming). He holds a PhD in Rural Development (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, researching the relation between art, culture and development) and concentrates his interests in the areas of rural development, sociology and anthropology. Since 2015, he is an adjunct professor at the Federal University of the Jequitinhonha and Mucuri's Valleys in these same areas; there also minister issues related to collective action, associativism and cooperativism. In this same university, dedicates research efforts related to "social action and the use of water resources" and "masculinization in the counstryside". He completed a post-doctorate at the Postgraduate Program in Social Anthropology at the University of Brasília and is a permanent professor at the Postgraduate Program in Environment and Rural Development at UnB. Currently, he works at the Secretariat of Land Governance, Territorial and Socio-Environmental Development of the Ministry of Agrarian Development, with the formulation and implementation of territorial development policies. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)