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Ana Margarida Pinto da Fonseca, completed her Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Landscape Management in December of 2016 at University of Évora, received her Master Degree in Human Ecology in December of 2003 in the same University. She published a book about Montado history, participated in a book chapter with the same theme, and has several scientific papers on emergy evaluation of food production and Montado system, one on food used in the past in periods of famine, and two scientific papers related to food systems in Portugal. She was part of the founding group of the Iberian Acorn Brotherhood and has been involved in organizing the Iberian Acorn Conferences since their beginning, particularly the 2nd Conference held at the University of Évora in 2018. She is currently President of the board of the same Confraternity. She regularly publishes works on the use of this product in the past and today. As a result of regular invitations from various lecturers at the University of Évora, she has taught several classes in undergraduate, master's and doctoral courses in the areas of the Montado, the history of the Montado, the emergy evaluation and utilization of acorns in the human diet and traditional practices associated with food. She has also been a member of the external advisory board of several international projects. With CIMAC - Intermunicipal Community of Alentejo Region she help to organized the SoEClose project - The social economy as a driver of short supply chains, together with the Diputación de Almeria (Andalusia, Spain) La Drôme Department (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France) and a cross-cutting partner, REVES- European Network of Cities and Regions for Social Economy, acting as a consultant of the University of Évora. Participated, from the very beginning, in the construction of the Food Strategy for the Municipality of Montemor-o-Novo - SMEA, having taken part in issue 1 of its magazine with two articles on local products. As Principal Investigator, she has managed and participated in various research projects (H2020, PRIMA, OG) in an agro-ecological enterprise with international projection - Montado do Freixo do Meio, which is currently a Private Protected Area. These research activities are related mainly with the improvement of acorn value chain, and the introduction, in Montado, of cultures adapted to climate change. She has participated in various activities and publications of ARC2020 - Agricultural and Rural Convention - Agricultural and rural actors working together for good food, good farming and better rural policies in the EU. Organising regular activities and visits at the Terras Sem Sombra Festival, about the Montado, the use of acorns and the foods used in the past. Organization of "Veredas - Itinerâncias na Paisagem" sessions, on traditional agricultural practices, at Paço dos Henriques, focusing on the themes of Transhumance, Chocalhos and O Rafeiro do Alentejo, in the Winter sessions, and on Romaria a Cavalo, Portuguese Autochthonous Breeds and Natural Pastures in the spring session dedicated to Livestock. Promotion of the signing, on 28 November 2018, of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Municipality of Viana do Alentejo and the University of Évora with the aim of creating mechanisms to enable the implementation of joint projects related to the Montado's silvo-pastoral system and funded by national or international bodies. She works in the area of Agrarian Sciences and Natural Sciences with emphasis on Montado, its management and history, food consumed in the past, ethnobiology and retro-innovation.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Ana Margarida Pinto da Fonseca

Citation names

  • Fonseca, Ana

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
7119-FC44-F94F
ORCID iD
0000-0002-0981-9501

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Agrarian Sciences
  • Natural sciences - Earth and Environmental Sciences - Environmental Sciences

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
English Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
French Elementary (A2) Intermediate (B1) Elementary (A2) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2016/12/09
Concluded
Interdisciplinary Landscape Management (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Évora Instituto de Investigação e Formação Avançada, Portugal
"EMERGETIC EVALUATION OF CATTLE REARING IN A MONTADO FARM" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Aprovada com louvor e distinção
2003/12
Concluded
Ecologia Humana (Mestrado)
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
"A História do Montado do século XV ao século XVIII" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Muito Bom
1993/10 - 1999/09
Concluded
Ciências do Ambiente (Licenciatura)
Major in Qualidade do Ambiente
Universidade de Évora Área Departamental de Ciências da Natureza e Ambiente, Portugal
"Levantamento da Vegetação da Serra deMonfurado" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution
Employer
2018/09/07 - 2021/12/31 Researcher (Research) Universidade de Évora Instituto de Ciências Agrárias e Ambientais Mediterrânicas, Portugal
2016/05/24 - 2018/07/30 Researcher (Research) Universidade de Évora Instituto de Ciências Agrárias e Ambientais Mediterrânicas, Portugal
2002/12/03 - 2003/03/04 Researcher (Research) Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2001/07/01 - 2001/08/31 Researcher (Research) Universidade de Évora, Portugal
1999/08/01 - 2001/06/28 Researcher (Research) Universidade Atlântica, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution
Employer
2022/07/01 - Current Gestão de Projetos de Investigação Sociedade Agrícola do Freixo do Meio, Lda., Portugal
2022/02/15 - 2023/09/30 Consultora para Certificação CCC+ CERTIS - CONTROLO E CERTIFICAÇÃO, LDA., Portugal
2022/01/01 - 2023/06/30 Investigadora Responsável de Projeto de Investigação Cooperativa de Usuários do Freixo do Meio, CRL, Portugal
2010/10 - 2015/12 Bolsa de doutoramento Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2008/10/01 - 2010/12/28 Responsible for the area of communication, ecotourism and development of new products Herdade do Freixo do Meio, Lda., Portugal
2006/12/01 - 2008/09/28 Grant for integration of masters in enterprises POCI/1.2/Nº16/2007, environmental area and development of new products Sousa Cunhal Gestão Agrícola, Lda., Portugal
2004/04/15 - 2006/09/15 Grant for the integration of masters in enterprises, Innovation and technology team Espaços Verdes, Projectos e Construção, Lda., Portugal
2002/06/01 - 2002/10/31 Greenbelt Project - Developing alternatives for natural and cultural landscape restoration Associação para o Desenvolvimento do Património de Mértola, Portugal
1998/11/01 - 1999/04/28 Nature conservation and environment ADPM - Associação para a Defesa do Património de Mértola, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2022/03/01 - 2023/05/31 Eating the wild: Improving the value-chain of Mediterranean Wild Food Products (WFP)
Principal investigator
Forest Sciences and Technology Centre of Catalonia, Spain
Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2022/08/01 - Current RADIANT - ReAlising DynamIc vAlue chaiNs for underuTilised crops
Research Fellow
Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal
H2020 Food Security Sustainable Agriculture and Forestry Marine Maritime and Inland Water Research and the Bioeconomy
Ongoing
2018/09/07 - 2021/12/31 "ECOMONTADO XXI - A Agroecologia aplicada ao design do Montado Novo"
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade de Évora Instituto de Ciências Agrárias e Ambientais Mediterrânicas, Portugal
European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development
Concluded
1999/08/01 - 2001/07/31 O uso e a ocupação do solo e a diversidade de fungos micorrízicos nos ecossistemas de montado portugueses (Alentejo)
PRAXIS/P/AGR/11165/1998
Research Fellow
Universidade Atlântica, Portugal
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2021/02/01 - 2021/12/31 SoEClose - Social Economy as a Driver for Short Supply Chains
101015850
Consultoria pela Universidade de Évora no âmbito do conceito Km0
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
CIMAC - Comunidade Intermunicipal do Alentejo Central
Concluded
2016/04/01 - 2018/05/23 Small farms, small food businesses and sustainable food security
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/677363/EU
Universidade de Évora Instituto de Ciências Agrárias e Ambientais Mediterrânicas, Portugal
European Commission
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Fonseca, Ana. O Montado no Alentejo (Século XV a XVIII). Portugal: Edições Colibri. 2004.
    Published
Book chapter
  1. Hernández, Paola; Rivera, María; Fonseca, Ana. "Por una alimentación sostenible: sistemas alimentarios locales en Portugal y futuras tendencias". In El malestar con la alimentación. Madrid, Spain: Trea, 2021.
    Published
  2. Godinho, M. C.; Azul, Anabela Marisa; Lauw, Alexandra. "Enquadramento histórico - Livro Verde dos Montados". In Livro Verde dos Montados. Instituto de Ciências Agrárias e Ambientais Mediterrânicas, 2013.
    Published
  3. Fonseca, Ana; Maria Teresa Pinto-Correia. "Historical perspective of montados: The Évora case study". edited by Aronson J., 49-55. Island Press, 2009.
    Published
Conference paper
  1. Fonseca, Ana; Marques, Carlos Alberto Falcão; Daniel Campbell. "Emergy Analysis of a Silvo-Pastoral System, a Case Study in Southern Portugal. . Center for Environmental Policy, University of Florida, Gainesville". Paper presented in 8th Biennial Emergy Conference, Gainesville, 2014.
    Published
  2. Fonseca, Ana. "Sustainability of extensive livestock systems in Alentejo, viability in face of rising energy prices". Paper presented in 7th Biennial Emergy Conference, Gainesville, 2012.
    Published
Conference poster
  1. Fonseca, Ana; Carlos Alberto Falcão Marques; Daniel Campbell. "Emergy vs Economic Analysis of Holm Oaks Farm in the Portuguese Montado - Accounting for Nature Work". Paper presented in European Society for Ecological Economics 2015 Conference - University of Leeds, 2015.
  2. Fonseca, Ana. "Emergy Sysnthesis as a tool to Montado Value Evaluation". Paper presented in ICAAM International Conference 2013 – Montados and Dehesas as High Nature Value Systems, 2013.
Journal article
  1. Karanikolas, Pavlos; Martinez-Gomez, Victor; Galli, Francesca; Prosperi, Paolo; Hernández, Paola A.; Arnalte-Mur, Laura; Rivera, Maria; et al. "Food system integration of olive-oil-producing small farms in Southern Europe". Global Food Security 28 (2021): 100499. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2021.100499.
    10.1016/j.gfs.2021.100499
  2. Czekaj, Marta; Hernández, Paola; Fonseca, Ana; Rivera, Maria; Zmija, Katarzyna; Zmija, Dariusz. "UNCOVERING PRODUCTION FLOWS FROM SMALL FARMS: RESULTS FROM POLAND AND PORTUGAL CASE STUDIES". Roczniki Naukowe Stowarzyszenia Ekonomistów Rolnictwa i Agrobiznesu XXI 3 (2019): 49-61. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0013.2823.
    Published • 10.5604/01.3001.0013.2823
  3. Fonseca, Ana Margarida P.; Marques, Carlos A.F.; Pinto-Correia, Teresa; Guiomar, Nuno; Campbell, Daniel E.. "Emergy evaluation for decision-making in complex multifunctional farming systems". Agricultural Systems 171 (2019): 1-12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2018.12.009.
    10.1016/j.agsy.2018.12.009
  4. Fonseca, Ana; Themudo-Barata, Filipe. "Utilização de alimentos de substituição nos montados do Alentejo no segundo e terceiro quartis do século XX". História & Economia - Revista Interdisciplinar 21 (2018): 67-81.
    Published
  5. Fonseca, Ana Margarida P.; Marques, Carlos A. F.; Pinto-Correia, Teresa; Campbell, Daniel E.. "Emergy analysis of a silvo-pastoral system, a case study in southern Portugal". Agroforestry Systems 90 1 (2016): 137-157. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10457-015-9888-5.
    10.1007/s10457-015-9888-5
  6. Fonseca, Ana. "Den Portugisiske Montado udviklingen mellem det 15. og 18. Arhundrede". (2001): 182-183.
    Published
Magazine article
  1. Fonseca, Ana. "Inovação e retro-inovação aplicadas ao sector da bolota para consumo humano em Portugal. (Innovation and retro-innovation applied to the acorn sector for human consumption in Portugal).", Lucanus – Revista de Ambiente e Sociedade, 2020
  2. Fonseca, Ana; Pinto-Correia, Teresa; José Francisco Ferragolo da Veiga. "Contributos da pequena agricultura através da metodologia dos Valores de Produção Padrão (Contributions of small agriculture through the methodology of Standard Production Values)", Revista de Ciências Agrarias, 2020, https://doi.org/10.19084/rca.19038.

Other

Other output
  1. Emergetic evaluation of cattle rearing in a montado farm. Tese de doutoramento para obtenção do grau de doutor na Universidade de Évora no curso de Gestão Interdisciplinar da Paisagem. 2016. Fonseca, Ana. http://rdpc.uevora.pt/handle/10174/19944.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2021/09/30 Aula Aberta sobre paisagem e alimentação no âmbito das palestras - Comer a Terra, da disciplina de Projeto V para os alunos de 5º Ano do Curso de Arquitetura. “Comer a Terra”
Curso de Arquitetura (Évora, Portugal)
2021/04/13 OG project ECOMONTADO XXI - EIP-AGRI seminar - Healthy soils for Europe: sustainable management through knowledge and practice EIP-AGRI seminar - Healthy soils for Europe: sustainable management through knowledge and practice
EIP - AGRI
2020/11/17 A bolota - um recurso natural multiuso. Webinar - “Potencialidades e Diversificação da Bolota”
Associação Terras Dentro (Alcáçovas, Portugal)
2020/11/10 Apresentação da Confraria Ibérica da Bolota II CONGRESSO BOLOTA DE SICÓ
Município de Ansião (on-line)
2019/11/30 Que inovação no sector da Bolota? I Congresso da Bolota de Sicó
Município de Ansião (Ansião, Portugal)
2019/11/23 O PAPEL DA BOLOTA FACE AOS DESAFIOS ACTUAIS Terceira Conferência Ibérica sobre a Bolota
Município de Lousada (Lousada, Portugal)
2019/11/23 Soberania Alimentar, o Km0 Montemor-o-Novo e o Km0 Alentejo Encontro “Desafios e Caminhos” sobre Políticas e Práticas de Apoio Alimentar
Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal (Setúbal)
2019/08/15 Food Revolution: How can we make food production sustainable? Festival internacional sobre sustentabilidade Waking Life, realizado no Crato
Waking Life Associação Cultural (Crato)
2019/04/05 From Survival to Sustainability - the History, culture and ecology of the cork oak forests
Associação de Plantas e Jardins em Climas Mediterrânicos (APEJECM) (Évora, Portugal)
2018/11/10 Bolota - HISTÓRIA E MEMÓRIA II Conferência Ibérica sobre a Bolota
VIPA 1051 (Évora, Portugal)
2017 Estimation of potential production provided by small family farms: a case study in Portugal Almeida, M.; The XXVII European Society for Rural Sociology Congress, Small farms, local and global markets, and food for all: where are the connections and disconnects, and the potentials – what do we know?
ICAAM - Instituto de Ciências Agrárias e Ambientais Mediterrânicas; University of Évora (Évora, Portugal)
2016/10/28 O projecto SALSA - Agricultura familiar, pequenas empresas agroalimentares e segurança alimentar sustentável
Instituto Nacional de Saúde Doutor Ricardo Jorge (Lisboa, PORT = Portugal, 38n43, 9w08, Portugal)
2016/10/27 Aula sobre A Rede de Cidadania de Montemor e o projeto Km0 Alentejo no âmbito do curso de doutoramento em "Saúde Ambiental" (sendo o nome oficial e internacional "EnviHealth&Co", promovido no ISAMB - Instituto de Saúde Ambiental, da Faculdade de Medicina, da Universidade de Lisboa. Módulo sobre "Empreendedorismo e Inovação" Empreendedorismo e a Inovação Social. Por isso, entendo que o vosso projecto é uma experiência muito interessante de Empreendedorismo e Inovação... Cidadã e fico muito contente por a Ana poder dar o seu contributo. Curso de doutoramento "EnviHealth&Co"
ISAMB - Instituto de Saúde Ambiental, da Faculdade de Medicina, da Universidade de Lisboa. (Lisboa, PORT = Portugal, 38n43, 9w08, Portugal)
2014/07/11 Intensification of cattle rearing in Montado system. What is too much? An emergetic perspective. International conference “Innovation for sustainability is your responsibility”
Lusíada University Porto (Porto)
2013/10/18 An emergetic and economic evaluation of a farm in Alentejo, approaches and results ESADR 2013 – Economia, Sociologia, Ambiente e Desenvolvimento Rural
University of Évora (Évora, Portugal)
2013/10/16 Banco de Terras de Montemor-o-Novo – uma nova forma de acesso e utilização da terra (Land Bank of Montemor-o-Novo - a new form of access and use of land) ESADR 2013 – Economia, Sociologia, Ambiente e Desenvolvimento Rural
University of Évora (Évora, Portugal)
2001/11/29 Contributos para a história do montado da Região de Évora do séc. XIII ao séc. XIX Ana Margarida Pinto da Fonseca
4th National Forestal Congress (Évora, Portugal)
2001/04/18 Breve História do Montado do séc. XIII ao séc. XIX – Exemplos dos concelhos de Évora e Montamor-o-Novo (Brief history of the Montado from century XIII to the century XIX; Examples of the municipalities of Évora and Montamor-o-Novo Iberian Conference on Landscape Ecology
Agrarian School of Bragança (Bragança, Portugal)
1997/05/03 Monfurado Sítio de Interesse Comunitário Habitats do anexo I da Directiva 92/43/CEE. I Encontro de Fitossociologia ALFA
Agrarian School of Bragança (Bragança, Portugal)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role
Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2021/01/01 - Current Emergetic evaluation of ovine production in montado systems in Portugal vs grassland systems in Scotland
Co-supervisor
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role)
Institution / Organization
2015/03/13 - Current Organização de um seminário sobre Agricultura Biológica na Universidade de Évora - Seminário Agricultura Biológica, uma aposta estratégica, com 10 oradores entre investigadores, produtores, transformadores, de marketing e a presença de 200 participantes. (2015/03/13 - 2015/03/13)
Seminar (President of the Organising Committee)
Universidade de Évora Instituto de Ciências Agrárias e Ambientais Mediterrânicas, Portugal
2018/11/10 - 2018/11/11 II Conferência Ibérica sobre a Bolota (2018/11/10 - 2018/11/11)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
Universidade de Évora Instituto de Ciências Agrárias e Ambientais Mediterrânicas, Portugal
2008/01/01 - 2010/11/30 Promoção e apoio logístico à realização do Inventário sobre variedades locais de hortícolas e frutícolas do concelho de Montemor-o-Novo, realizado pela Associação "Colher para Semear" e o José Miguel Fonseca, que culminou com a organização de um encontro “Ao Encontro da Semente” em outubro de 2010, e a compilação das variedades identificadas num catálogo. (2008/01/01 - 2010/11/30)
Other
Câmara Municipal de Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2020 - Current Confraria Ibérica da Bolota Provedora
2011/06/11 - Current Emergy Society – the International Society for the Advancement of Emergy Research Member

Committee member

Activity description
Role
Institution / Organization
2011/03/01 - 2014/05/31 Membro do painel de peritos do projeto europeu – FarmPath - Farming Transitions: Pathways towards regional sustainability of agriculture in Europe.
Advisor / Consultant
The James Hutton Institute, United Kingdom

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2015/06 - Current Escrita do capítulo sobre a história do Montado com o título - Montado - História de um sistema humanizado, 18 páginas, para integrar a candidatura do Montado a Paisagem Cultural da Humanidade, preparada pela empresa Quartenaire. Entidade Regional de Turismo, Portugal
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 Construção do referencial Km0 Alentejo - Propriedade da Universidade de Évora CERTIS - CONTROLO E CERTIFICAÇÃO, LDA., Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2013/09/12 - 2021/10/11 8 aulas dadas na Universidade de Évora sobre o Sistema Montado, a história do Montado, o Método de Avaliação Emergético e a avaliação emergética do Montado , no contexto do mestrado em Ecologia da Conservação. Mestrado em Ecologia da Conservação Universidade de Évora, Portugal

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

Activity description Newspaper / Forum
2023/08/02 Collaboration with The Agricultural and Rural Convention ARC2020, both in its activities and in writing several "Letter from the farm" Agricultural and Rural Convention ARC2020
2021/02 Press article long: Improving soils in Portuguese Montado ecosystems - Portuguese Operational Group applies landscaping technique to Montado ecosystem for soil improvement EIP-AGRI site - Press article long
Distinctions

Award

2020 O projecto ECOMONTADO XXI recebe Menção Honrosa nos Prémios Notáveis Agro Santander 2020, categoria Sustentabilidade.

Other distinction

2002 Apoio financeiro à realização da tese de mestrado
Fundação Eugénio de Almeida, Portugal
2001 Apoio financeiro à realização da tese de mestrado