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Miguel Altieri is a Chilean born agronomist and entomologist. He is a Professor in Agroecology at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management. 

Altieri served as a Scientific Advisor to the Latin American Consortium on Agroecology and Development (CLADES) Chile, an NGO network promoting agroecology as a strategy for small farm sustainable development in the region.

He also served 4 years as the General Coordinator for the United Nations Development Programme's Sustainable Agriculture Networking and Extension Programme which aimed at capacity building on agroecology among NGOs and the scaling-up of successful local sustainable agricultural initiatives in Africa, Latin America and Asia.

Altieri is the author of more than 20 publications and more than a dozen books.