PhD in Agrarian Sciences from the Universidad Autónoma de Chapingo. He won the Arturo Fregoso Urbina Prize for the best doctoral thesis in 2013 and the Jorge Alonso Prize honorable mention for the best doctoral thesis in Social Sciences of Mexico 2013, awarded by the Centre for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS) and the Universidad de Guadalajara. He served as advisor and consultant to the United Nations in Colombia for several years. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher and professor of Sociology at the Universidad Autonoma de Mexico, postgraduate professor at the Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica, and international guest professor at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. For several years, he has worked in the research field in environmental thought, political ecology, post-development and agroecology. He is currently a Conacyt researcher attached to El Colegio de la Frontera Sur and is part of the National System of Researchers in Mexico. Author of several articles and the books Utopias in the age of survival. An interpretation of good living (2014) and Political ecology of agriculture. Agroecology and post-development (2018)