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Francisco Garrido Garza

Doctorant, INRAE

Academic interests and expertise:

  • Sustainability transitions, grassroots innovations, entrepreneurship, agroecology, sustainable food systems, alternative food networks, permaculture and ecological design.
  • I am an early career researcher in Management Science, focused on topics of sustainability transitions through social, technical and institutional innovations. My doctoral dissertation examines the construction of markets for agroecology in different theoretical and empirical contexts, seeking to understand the directionality of market-driven agroecological transitions through the interplay between structures, agency, and discourse. Prior to my doctoral research, I studied Political Science and History (BA), Biology (BS), and Organic Agriculture (MS) with an interdisciplinary specialization in Agroecology. Throughout this academic trajectory, which combined the social sciences with the life sciences, I progressively developed a diverse body of knowledge that ultimately led me to embrace an interdisciplinary approach to topics related to sustainability transition management in agri-food systems. I bring as well practical experience in consultancy, logistics, agronomic research and field sampling, customer service, qualitative fieldwork and data management.

Scientific articles:

  • Garrido-Garza, F., Loconto, A., & Robinson, D. (2025). Agroecological Entrepreneurship: A Driving Force in the Sustainable Transformation of Agri-Food Systems. Entrepreneurship & Regional Development. (https://doi.org/10.1080/08985626.2025.2530563), (https://hal.inrae.fr/hal-05310146v1).
  • Garrido-Garza, F., Loconto, A., & Dufeu, I. (2025). Chapter 14. Certificando la agroecología: trazando límites con la agricultura orgánica (pp. 357-380). In A. Pedreño & C. de Castro (Eds.), Sociología rural y de la agricultura: nuevos avances en investigación social de los campos de la globalización agroalimentaria. Madrid: CIS.
  • Loconto A. M., Garrido-Garza, F., & Dufeu, I. (2023). Innovations for Sustainable Food Systems: Focusing on Agroecology and Participatory Guarantee Systems. Journal of Rural Problems, 59(1), 37-44. (https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/arfe/59/1/59_37/_pdf).

In process:

  • Garrido-Garza, F., Loconto, A., & Robinson, D. (2025). Market Formation for Short Food Supply Chains in the Context of Transformative Social Innovation. Journal of Rural Studies. Submission under review.
  • Garrido-Garza, F. (2025). Inconspicuous reproduction of agroecological ideologies at local-regional markets: valuation practices and transition directions. The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food. Submission under review.

Reports & deliverables:

  • Loconto, A., Enderli, G., Králl, A., Veér, Z., Mattioni, D., Garrido-Garza, F., Boukhatmi, H., Stephens, R., Carlsson, G., Colombo, L., Hernández, P., Lazzaro, M., Pietromarchi, A. & Szira, F. (2024). Deliverable D1.4 – Typology of short and mid-tier chains valuing biodiversity, including SMART indexes of agrobiodiversity use in marketing and data. DIVINFOOD H2020 project. Report, 197 p. (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12823535), (https://hal.science/hal-05300554v1).
  • Matovu, J., Cousin-Morin, N., Didas, B., Garrido-Garza, F., Lemeilleur, S. & Loconto, A. (2023). IIABA PGS Best Practices Workshop. (https://hal-lara.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-04597476v1).
  • Loconto, A., Fouilleux, E., Garrido-Garza, F., Mongo, B., Haule, S., Daud, M., Matovu, J. & Robinson, D. (2022). IIABA Activity Report: Diagnostic Tool Writing Workshop. (https://hal-lara.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-04597464v1).
  • Loconto, A., & Garrido-Garza, F. (2021). Formal and informal European quality assurance initiatives offering a connection between local gastronomy and small-scale farmers. (https://hal.inrae.fr/hal-03173144v2).
  • Garrido Garza, F. (2019). Exploring the Effects of Strip-intercropping Leek (Allium porrum) with Grass-clover on Natural Control of Pests and Diseases. Master thesis. Farming Systems Ecology group. Wageningen University.
  • Damen, Y., Galarza Ferrín, G., Garrido Garza, F., van Rijthoven, J., Scuric, E., Tian, Y. & Zhang, Y. (2018). Designing an Integrated Sustainable Food Production System for an American High School. Academic consultancy training project. Wageningen University.

Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/francisco-garrido-garza/

 

Profile updated on 02 December, 2025.