Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Nicaragua
Agroecology
Dr. Zúniga-González, has been a research professor in the agroecological
engineering department, of the Faculty of Agricultural and Veterinary
Sciences, and the Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences, since
2000. From 2002 to mid-2007 , He has served as a teacher-administrator
of the Agricultural Campus, where he administered the Veterinary
Medicine Program and the Department of Agroecological Engineering of
the Faculty of Science and Technology, He administered the Faculty of
Economic and Business Sciences until mid-2010, date goes to
integrate the academic support team of Social Projection of Unan-León
with the responsibility of Coordinator of the University-Society-State
area and then as director.
His technical experience is in Agricultural Economics with an emphasis
on Sustainable Local Development. He has conducted extensive
research on the efficiency and productivity of agricultural farms,
the environment and poverty in rural households, some work has
been on the Central American area, there is experience in using the
MECOVI databases, that is, surveys of improvement of standard of
living from 1993 to 2005, as well as the 2005 Census of Agriculture.
Dr. Zúniga González, has coordinated workshop courses on Rural
Business Plans, Formulation and Evaluation of agricultural projects.
Currently, he directs the Center for Research in Agrarian Sciences
and Applied Economics, CICAEA and is coordinator of the
Iberoamerican Network for Bioeconomy and Climate Change.
Editor-in-Chief of the Iberoamerican journal of Bioeconomics and
Climate Change, a scientific journal managed jointly with researchers
from the Mexican Postgraduate College. Director of Social Projection
at UNAN-León.
Centro de investigacion en bioeconomia y cambio climatico
Agroecology
The Researching Centre for Bioeconomy and Climate Change (CIByCC) is a multidisciplinary Researching and Posgraduate Centre which is focused to strengthen the Development Polo at UNAN-León that profits western Nicaragua farmers and Central Americans farmers in a second time. The Centre promotes research into the Bio Economy that offers a new epistemology to investigate the socioeconomic system in partnership with the biological system and involves the validation of Bio Technology in the agricultural forest production subsystem and coastal marine research in terms of adaptability and mitigation of climate change. For this, the Centre promotes multidisciplinary research between universities colaborative CNU members and CSUCA. The centre focuses on agricultural production systems, livestock, forestry, aquaculture and beekeeping in investigative function of food and nutrition security and adaptability and mitigation of climate change.
The research center and graduate based on organizational autonomy, brings together specialists in the agricultural sciences, science, food technology, quality control, legal and social science and applied economics from UNAN-Leon and the member universities CNU (i.e. UNA, NITLAPAN-UCA-Managua UNAN) organized on the advisory board with key representatives of organizations of farmers organized in the production board in order to exploit synergies to meet farmer demand .
