Dr. Almut Schilling-Vacaflor

Almut Schilling‐Vacaflor, PhD, currently works as a Postdoc at Osnabrück University and as Associate Researcher at the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies. Her research deals with environmental governance, Indigenous peoples and FPIC, business and human rights, global supply chains, extractive industries and the agribusiness in Latin America. She currently co-leads two research projects about the sustainability governance of soy and beef supply chains from Brazil, with a focus on mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence. Her work has been published by journals like World Development, The Journal of Peasant Studies, Regulation & Governance, Ecology & Society, Global Environmental Politics, Development and Change and Third World Quarterly.