Natalia Reyes Tejada is a PhD Fellow in the Department of Integrated Water Systems and Integration IHE Delft Institute for Water Education. Her research is part of the Sustainable Freshwater Supply for Urbanizing Maputo, Mozambique Project. In that framework, her project looks at the use of water in Maputo´s peri-urban agriculture. She aims to understand how changes in its quality are related to changes in the livelihoods of smallholders in the city´s green belt, while trying to elucidate the different sets of social relations interacting with changes in water quality at the same time. By understanding the social nature of water and looking at its circulation, she tries to understand the bigger picture of Maputo´s peri-urban agriculture in terms of yield, food availability, gender inequalities, age and livelihoods of the household relying on horticulture in Infulene Valley.
Previously, she worked as a consultant for international cooperation agencies and organisms in a variety of technical projects on food and water security, peri-urban agriculture and water governance in Bolivia, Argentina and Uruguay. She holds an Msc in Environmental Governance by the University of Freiburg, Germany. In her dissertation she studied a community chickens´ production cooperative in Piedra Blanca, Cordoba, Argentina. Using the theory of the new rurality she explored the change in the production structure of this peri-urban site from the traditional clay brick production towards a self-managed and cooperative healthy food production.
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