Nataly Torres

Economist and Master in Rural Territorial Development. PhD student in Territorial Development at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences, FLACSO Ecuador (2023-2027). Member of the research group “Interdisciplinary Gender Studies” and the “Turning Land into Capital” project. Work experience in university teaching and research in the area of social sciences. I have published in indexed journals, books, and dissemination documents on studies of rural territorial dynamics and transformations, political ecology, and gender studies.

Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Ecuador

natalytorresg@gmail.com

Project

Metal mining and agrarian elites. New dynamics of concentration and land grabbing

The project analyzes the relationships between mining actors and landowning elites in the context of the development of mining projects and how land plays an important role in the process of capital reproduction.

Publications

Vela, D. & Torres N. (2021). “Consultation in Ecuador: Institutional Fragility and Participation in National Extractive Policy”. Latin American Perspectives, Inc. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0094582X211008148

Vela, D., Gonzalez, A., Gavilán, I., Fenner, G., Torres, N. Ysunza, V. (2021). “The right to decide: A triad of participation in politicizing extractive governance in Latin America”. The Extractive Industries and Society Volume 9, March 2022, 100875
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214790X21000101

FIAN Ecuador (2018). “Mujeres rurales y tierra en Ecuador. ¡Es hora de cerrar las brechas de género en el campo!”. Investigación y compilación: Nataly Torres Guzmán https://landportal.org/fr/library/resources/mujeres-rurales-y-tierra-en-ecuador

Torres, N., Báez, J. Maldonado, P. & Yulán, M. (2017). “Tendencias en la estructura agraria, inequidad rural y derecho a la alimentación y nutrición en el Ecuador post-neoliberal. Primera edición. Quito: FIAN Ecuador.