Natacha Bruna is a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Global Development, Cornell University. She holds a Ph.D. in Development Studies and was part of a political ecology research group at the International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, at Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands. She worked as a researcher and is still a member of a Mozambican Independent Research Institution – Observatório do Meio Rural. She is also an Associate Editor of Feminist Africa.