Aldenor da Silva Ferreira

My name is Aldenor da Silva Ferreira. I hold a Bachelor's and a Licentiate degree in Social Sciences from the Federal University of Amazonas (UFAM) (2005/2006). I am a Specialist in Higher Education Methodology from the Faculty of Education, also at UFAM (2007), and I have a Master's degree in Society and Culture in the Amazon from the same university (2009). In 2010, I won the Samuel Benchimol and Banco da Amazônia Award for Conscious Entrepreneurship in the Economic-Technological Category, and in 2014, I won in the Social Category. For four years, I was a research fellow at the Amazonas Research Foundation (FAPEAM). I completed a doctoral internship at the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of Calcutta, in 2013, through the Sandwich Doctorate Program Abroad (PDSE/CAPES). I earned my Ph.D. in the Graduate Program in Social Sciences at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in 2016. I was a professor at the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS), Naviraí campus, from 2016 to 2022, where I served as the coordinator of the undergraduate program in Social Sciences and the lato sensu postgraduate program in Sociology Teaching at CAPES/UFMS/EAD. Currently, I am an assistant professor and coordinator of the Agribusiness Systems Management program at the Center for Natural Sciences (CCN) at the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCAR), Lagoa do Sino campus. I conduct research in the fields of Rural Sociology and Environmental Sociology, investigating the following topics: peasantry, family farming, rural settlements, and the history of agriculture, with an emphasis on Japanese immigration and its contribution to the development of agriculture in Brazil.

E-mail: aldenorferreira@ufscar.br

ORCID: 0000-0001-9823-2296 (external link)

CV: lattes.cnpq.br/9885729254698394 (external link)

Research Area: Ruralities and Agroecology

Research Group: dgp.cnpq.br/dgp/espelhogrupo/1352790253951187 (external link)

Expertise: Family Farming; Rural Development; Public Policies; Rural Settlements; History of Agriculture.