Claudia Coral is a Ph.D. candidate in Agricultural Sciences at Humboldt University of Berlin, Faculty of Life Sciences, Department of Agricultural Economics. Additionally, she is currently completing the Doctoral Certificate Program in Agricultural Economics conducted jointly by numerous German and Austrian faculties and research institutes. In 2014 she obtained a Master of Science (M.Sc.) degree in the Integrated Natural Resource Management program at Humboldt University of Berlin.
Claudia has developed research in Germany (Accounting for Environmental (GHG) Effects in Cattle Production Systems for Securing a Sustainable Value Chain Development), Madagascar (Integration of smallholder farmers into agribusiness value chains under restrictive markets) and currently in Ecuador (Assessment of the drivers and dynamics of historical land-use changes in Protected Forests in Ecuador).
In the last years, Claudia has been developing an analytical framework for a systemic analysis of drivers and dynamics of historical land-use changes- a shift toward Systems Thinking. When she is not working in Germany or conducting “systemic inquiries”, she spends time gardening and enjoying nature in her home country, Ecuador.