Maywa Montenegro

Maywa is a food systems researcher and PhD candidate at UC Berkeley, and a prolific writer on science and food diversity.

Maywa Montenegro is a PhD candidate in Environmental Science, Policy and Management at UC Berkeley, with a masters degree in science writing from MIT. Her research focuses on seeds, agroecology, and food system diversity, with writings on these topics and more appearing in Ensia, Gastronomica, Earth Island Journal, Seed Magazine, Grist and the Boston Globe.

The complex nature of GMOs calls for a new conversation

October 9, 2015Food

Why do the merits or demerits of GMOs grab more headline space than systemic food and agriculture concerns? Food systems researcher Maywa Montenegro breaks down the debate.