We recently learned that Professor Eduardo López Herrera, partner and mentor of Santa Clara University’s Agroecology, Climate Resilience and Food Justice Lab faculty, staff, and students, passed away on October 23, 2021 in his native city of Estelí. Msc. Eduardo was president of the Nicaraguan Social Development Association (ASDENIC), an organization that has worked on knowledge management and local development in northern Nicaragua for more than 25 years and a community-based partner with us since its inception in 2001.
We extend our sincere condolences to Professor Eduardo López Herrera’s family, and his second family at ASDENIC. Professor López Herrera was also a professor of sociology and history at the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua (UNAN), and the recipient of several prestigious awards for his service.
Thank you, Eduardo, for all the ways that you helped us collaborate with communities in northern Nicaragua and bridge our own academic disciplinary divides, as together we have organized workshops, organized international agroecology short courses, and conducted farmer surveys. Collectively and through our work with ASDENIC and many cooperative and community leaders, we have worked together to analyze how smallholder farmers and local communities are adapting to climate change and other hazards, to explain the links between food and water security, advance agroecology to address food insecurity, adapt to climate change and other hazards, and contribute to efforts to create a nationally recognized protected area in the Canta Gallo region.
Your legacy of dedicated work, values in action, principles based on an example of an open heart will inspire our ongoing collaborations and continued work.
