Speakers - AFHWC2025

Biography

Márcia Figueira is a PhD researcher at the LEAF Research Centre, Universidade de Lisboa (Instituto Superior de Agronomia), supported by an FCT PhD grant (UI/BD/153706/2022). Trained as an agronomist and environmental engineer, her research focuses on sustainability transitions in agriculture, with a particular emphasis on Portuguese rice systems. She works with farmer field book records, Life Cycle Assessment, Data Envelopment Analysis, and climate-risk assessments to evaluate farming practices and environmental performance. Her broader interests include the governance of agri-food systems, the role of green-finance instruments, and the design of adaptive and socially just pathways for agricultural regions under ecological and climatic stress.