Sustainable Development Goals
Research interests
• Organic agriculture
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Agroforestry
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Soil organic Matter
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Effective microbes
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Effective crop nutrition using pruning resides of leguminous trees
Profile
Professor Fidel Payán is a Mexican citizen born in El Salvador in 1960. He received his degree in agricultural engineering from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) Xochimilco Campus in 1984. He worked as an extensionist with indigenous cooperatives in the Sierra de Puebla and Morelos from 1984-1989. He obtained his master's degree at the Center for Rural Development Studies College of the Postgraduate College of Chapingo in 1993 with a scholarship from the Ford Foundation in the Mexico and Central America competition.
He has worked for 30 years as a Professor at UAM Xochimilco Campus in the Department of agricultural and animal production. He obtained his doctorate degree in 2005 in the joint program between the CATIE-UW-Bangor joint Ph.D. program at the University of Wales in Great Britain. With a scholarship for studies abroad from Conacyt of the Mexican government.
His main scientific interests and publications revolve around organic agriculture, agroforestry, and integrated production proposals for low-income farming communities; he is also interested in the dynamics of soil organic matter in agroforestry systems.
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