Marcela Quintero

Director, Multifunctional Landscape research area
Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)

Marcela Quintero is the Research Director of the Multifunctional Landscapes Research Area at the Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT). With 20-years of experience, her core work has focused on research on environmental incentives, watershed management, environmental impacts in agricultural landscapes, and adoption determinants of sustainable land use-based options. Recently she has worked on environmental impacts and adoption determinants of conservation measures, including mixed crop-livestock systems and conservation measures. Marcela is an ecologist and holds a Ph.D. from the Department of Agronomy at the University of Florida.