ABSTRACT
Luis Enrique Arias Basulto graduated as an agricultural engineer from the Higher Institute of Agricultural Sciences of Bayamo (ISCAB) in 1984. An auxiliary researcher in 2002, he gained a Master’s in Agricultural Sciences in 2003. From 1985 to 2006, he was a researcher at the Jorge Dimitrov Agricultural Research Institute, conducting research such as the establishment of the institution’s fruit tree germplasm bank, setting up and conducting experiments in coffee cultivation related to the management of new plantations and established plantations, considering pruning, shade regulation and planting density, as well as the study of different coffee genotypes resistant to rust. Pedro Boff is the great-grandson of Italian immigrants in southern Brazil, where he helped out on his family farm. Zeddy Chikukwa grew up in Chikukwa, Zimbabwe, always needing to be in nature, exploring the connections between our natural world and village life.
