Clara Inés Nicholls is a Colombian agronomist with a Masters degree on entomology from Chapingo School of Graduate Studies in Mexico and a PhD from the University of California at Davis. Her research centers on the development of biodiverse agroecosystems that sponsor biological control of pest populations. She has also worked extensively in Latin America promoting agroecologically-based approaches to agricultural sustainability. She is a lecturer at UC Berkeley’s Center for Latin American Studies where she teaches Perspectives for Sustainable Rural Development in Latin America.