Assistant Professor at School of Communication and Media Studies IPL - Lisbon and Researcher at Research Centre on Socioeconomic Change and Territory (DINÂMIA'CET) – ISCTE-IUL. PhD in Economics from the University of Évora and Master in Agricultural Economics. Member from Portugal in the Project for the European Parliament Semi-subsistence farming - value and directions for development. Editor-in-chief of the Journal of Agricultural and Natural Resources Research, Member of the Editorial Board and referee of other scientific indexed journals. She is member of several associations in the agricultural economy field, namely at Brazilian Society of Economics, Management and Sociology Rural - SOBER, among others.