Bernardo Fernandes

Bernardo Fernandes serves as Full Professor at São Paulo State University (UNESP), holding dual appointments in the Graduate Program in Geography at the Presidente Prudente campus and the Graduate Program in Territorial Development in Latin America and the Caribbean at the São Paulo campus. He holds the UNESCO Chair in Territorial Development and Education for the Countryside at UNESP.

His academic credentials include:

• Graduate degree from University of São Paulo (1988)
• Master's degree from University of São Paulo (1994)
• Ph.D. from University of São Paulo (1999)
• Post-doctorate in Latin American Studies at University of South Florida (2008)

Fernandes' research centers on territorial development theory, agrarian conflicts, and rural social movements. His work critically examines agribusiness expansion, land reform dynamics, and paradigmatic disputes in Latin American countryside development. He integrates agroecology and education frameworks to address socioterritorial inequalities, with recent focus on Sustainable Development Goals implementation through comparative analysis of grassroots movements across the Global South.

His scientific honors include:

• CNPq Fellowship for Scientific Productivity (Level 1B)
• UNESCO Chair in Territorial Development and Education for the Countryside

Fernandes founded Brazil's Center for Agrarian Reform Study, Research and Projects (NERA) in 1998 and currently coordinates the CAPES PrInt Global Alliance project 'Leave no one behind; Socioterritorial movements in comparative perspective and the SDG'. He serves on editorial boards for 'Voices of the Countryside' and 'Agrarian Change & Peasant Studies' book collections, and was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University in 2016.