Maria Theresa Medina Castro is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Cooperatives and Bio-Enterprise Development (ICOPED), College of Economics and Management, University of the Philippines Los Banos. She finished her Master’s degree in Development Studies with Distinction at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. For the past 10 years, she has been involved in different international and local research projects focused on gender, agriculture, climate change, disaster risk management, and international rural development.