Research Summary
Current research focuses on agrobiodiversity change and resilience related to water resource use, irrigation and climate change; spatial interactions involving the role of social networks and environmental factors in high-agrobiodiversity farming and organic.
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Recent Publications
Heterogeneous Perceptions of Rainfall Patterns Among Agropastoral Land Users in Sub-Saharan Africa
Kotikot, S. M., Smithwick, E. A. H., Nankaya, J., Gergel, S., Zimmerer, K. S. & Abila, R., 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Annals of the American Association of Geographers.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
The Global Greenhouse Boom: Emerging Geographies of Agri-Food Intensification in the Plantationocene
Zimmerer, K. S. & Bell, M. G., Apr 2025, In: Geography Compass. 19, 4, e70027.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
Agrobiodiversity threats amid expanding woody monocultures and hopes nourished through farmer and food movements in the Mediterranean
Zimmerer, K. S., Aumeeruddy-Thomas, Y., Caillon, S., Jiménez-Olivencia, Y., Porcel-Rodríguez, L. & Duvall, C. S., Mar 27 2024, In: Elementa. 12, 1, 12.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
Entangled pathways of the Plantationocene: early colonial monocropping, subaltern agrobiodiversity, and aridity in Andalus (Spain) and Coastal Peru
Zimmerer, K. S., Tubbeh, R. M. & Bell, M. G., 2024, In: Journal of Peasant Studies. 51, 3, p. 624-650 27 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review
Correction to: Land-System Changes and Migration Amidst the Opium Poppy Collapse in the Southern Highlands of Oaxaca, Mexico (2016–2020) (Human Ecology, (2023), 51, 2, (189-205), 10.1007/s10745-022-00388-4)
Tamariz, G., Zimmerer, K. S. & Hultquist, C., Apr 2023, In: Human Ecology. 51, 2, p. 207 1 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review
Land-System Changes and Migration Amidst the Opium Poppy Collapse in the Southern Highlands of Oaxaca, Mexico (2016-2020)
Tamariz, G., Zimmerer, K. S. & Hultquist, C., Apr 2023, In: Human Ecology. 51, 2, p. 189-205 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Global modeling of the socioeconomic, political, and environmental relations of farmer seed systems (FSS): Spatial analysis and insights for sustainable Development
Zimmerer, K. S., Vanek, S. J., Baumann, M. D. & van Etten, J., Apr 20 2023, In: Elementa. 11, 1, 11.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Landscape products for sustainable agricultural landscapes
García-Martín, M., Huntsinger, L., Ibarrola-Rivas, M. J., Penker, M., D’Ambrosio, U., Dimopoulos, T., Fernández-Giménez, M. E., Kizos, T., Muñoz-Rojas, J., Saito, O., Zimmerer, K. S., Abson, D. J., Liu, J., Quintas-Soriano, C., Sørensen, I. H., Verburg, P. H. & Plieninger, T., Oct 2022, In: Nature Food. 3, 10, p. 814-821 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Useful Plants from the Wild to Home Gardens: An Analysis of Home Garden Ethnobotany in Contexts of Habitat Conversion and Land Use Change in Jeju, South Korea
Hong, Y. & Zimmerer, K. S., Nov 3 2022, In: Journal of Ethnobiology. 42, 3, p. 1-21 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
A Systematic Review of EU-Funded Innovative Agri-Food Projects: Potential for Transfer between Territories
Ibáñez-Jiménez, Á., Jiménez-Olivencia, Y., Mesa-Pedrazas, Á., Porcel-Rodríguez, L. & Zimmerer, K., Apr 2022, In: Land. 11, 4, 519.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Assessing social-ecological connectivity of agricultural landscapes in Spain: Resilience implications amid agricultural intensification trends and urbanization
Zimmerer, K. S., Olivencia, Y. J., Rodríguez, L. P., López-Estébanez, N., Álvarez, F. A., Olmo, R. M., Ochoa, C. Y., Pulpón, Á. R. R. & García, Ó. J., Dec 2022, In: Agricultural Systems. 203, 103525.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Entanglements of agrobiodiversity-food amid cascading migration, coca conflicts, and water development (Bolivia, 1990–2013)
Zimmerer, K. S., Rojas Vaca, H. L. & Hosse Sahonero, M. T., Jan 2022, In: Geoforum. 128, p. 223-235 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Integrating Social-Ecological and Political-Ecological Models of Agrobiodiversity With Nutrient Management of Keystone Food Spaces to Support SDG 2
Zimmerer, K. S., Jones, A. D., de Haan, S., Creed-Kanashiro, H., Tubbeh, R. M., Hultquist, C., Tello Villavicencio, M. N., Plasencia Amaya, F. & Nguyen, K. T., Mar 31 2022, In: Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. 6, 734943.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Land use change dynamics in Euro-mediterranean mountain regions: Driving forces and consequences for the landscape
Jiménez-Olivencia, Y., Ibáñez-Jiménez, Á., Porcel-Rodríguez, L. & Zimmerer, K., Oct 2021, In: Land Use Policy. 109, 105721.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Bridging the troubled waters of tourism studies: from social capital and rural community development to livelihood sovereignty
Naylor, R. S., Hunt, C. A. & Zimmerer, K. S., 2021, In: International Journal of Tourism Anthropology. 8, 4, p. 370-390 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review