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Biography of Contributors
University (UDESC) and the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR), Coventry
University, UK, where he is focusing on homeopathy applied to plants and biodynamic farming methods to increase the vitality of farming systems. Leo is a member of the Laboratories of
Fruticulture at the CAV/UDESC, focusing on strawberry crops, and the Laboratory of Homeopathy
and Plant Health at the Institute for Research and Rural Extension of Santa Catarina State (EPAGRI).
He is also a permaculture designer; organic farming advisor; homeopathic agronomist; biodynamic
agronomist; and editor of the Brazilian Agroecology Journal. His intention is to promote agroecological food systems worldwide, to help to build green agriculture and make healthy, nutritional
food available for all.
Pedro Ferrandiz
Pedro Ferrandiz gained engineering qualifcations at the Pierre and Marie Curie University (UPMC),
Paris, in 1993. Prior to that, in 1991, he had started undertaking independent research in genodics,
supervised by Joël Sternheimer, inventor of this discipline. The frst experiments were on plants and
in bread-making, resulting in the article: Process of epigenetic regulation of protein synthesis – trial
in bread-making, Industrie des Céréales, No. 85, December 1993, p. 40, https://aemic.com/blog/
article/procede-de-regulation-epigenetique-de-la-synthese-proteique-essai-en-panifcation.html.
From 1994 to 2008, he worked as Production Engineer, Group Industrial Controller and Group
Supply Chain Manager at the Evry site of the Jacquet Group (France). In 1999, he was a founding
member of the R.A.Ch.I (Réseau Associatif de Chercheurs Indépendants), undertaking research
work, the development of applications and conferences and publications on genodics. In 2008, he
became Executive Director of Genodics SAS (Paris), with the objective of providing evidence of
genodics through concrete applications in the feld, particularly in agriculture. In 2020, 170 farmers
used this process, over 2,500 ha, with around 40 applications. He leads on the research, distribution,
installation and monitoring of applications as well as partnerships with research teams.
Bertus Haverkort
Bertus Haverkort has worked for several decades in agricultural and rural development programmes
in Colombia, Bolivia, Ghana and India. He has been Manager of ILEIA (www.ileia.org) and has
worked in the ETC Foundation. More recently, he has been Visiting Professor at the University for
Developing Studies in Ghana. Bertus is author/co-author of several books including the following:
Towards Co-Creation of Sciences: Building on the Plurality of Worldviews, Values and Methods in
Different Knowledge Communities (2012); Ancient Roots, New Shoots: Endogenous Development
in Practice (2003); Food for Thought: Ancient Visions and New Experiments of Rural People (1999);
Linking with Farmers: Networking for Low-External-Input and Sustainable Agriculture (1993);
Farming for the Future: An Introduction to Low-External-Input and Sustainable Agriculture
(1992); and Joining Farmer’s Experiments: Experiences in Participatory Technology Development
(1991).
Pedro Jovchelevich
Pedro Jovchelevich is an agronomist with a Master’s degree (moon rhythms in biodynamic horticulture) and a PhD in biodynamic plant breeding. Pedro is General Manager of the Brazilian
Association of Biodynamic Agriculture (ABD), teacher of the Brazilian biodynamic course and
coordinator of ABD’s Participatory Guarantee System and the biodynamic seed network. He is
52 years old and married and has three children. He lives in the countryside in Botucatu, SP, Brazil
(www.biodinamica.org.br).
Eline Kieft
Eline Kieft has danced from a young age, including rigorous classical and contemporary training
to become a professional dancer. She explored indigenous ways of knowing through her studies
in anthropology (BA, MA). During her PhD in Dance at Roehampton University, London, she
Biography of Contributors
University (UDESC) and the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR), Coventry
University, UK, where he is focusing on homeopathy applied to plants and biodynamic farming methods to increase the vitality of farming systems. Leo is a member of the Laboratories of
Fruticulture at the CAV/UDESC, focusing on strawberry crops, and the Laboratory of Homeopathy
and Plant Health at the Institute for Research and Rural Extension of Santa Catarina State (EPAGRI).
He is also a permaculture designer; organic farming advisor; homeopathic agronomist; biodynamic
agronomist; and editor of the Brazilian Agroecology Journal. His intention is to promote agroecological food systems worldwide, to help to build green agriculture and make healthy, nutritional
food available for all.
Pedro Ferrandiz
Pedro Ferrandiz gained engineering qualifcations at the Pierre and Marie Curie University (UPMC),
Paris, in 1993. Prior to that, in 1991, he had started undertaking independent research in genodics,
supervised by Joël Sternheimer, inventor of this discipline. The frst experiments were on plants and
in bread-making, resulting in the article: Process of epigenetic regulation of protein synthesis – trial
in bread-making, Industrie des Céréales, No. 85, December 1993, p. 40, https://aemic.com/blog/
article/procede-de-regulation-epigenetique-de-la-synthese-proteique-essai-en-panifcation.html.
From 1994 to 2008, he worked as Production Engineer, Group Industrial Controller and Group
Supply Chain Manager at the Evry site of the Jacquet Group (France). In 1999, he was a founding
member of the R.A.Ch.I (Réseau Associatif de Chercheurs Indépendants), undertaking research
work, the development of applications and conferences and publications on genodics. In 2008, he
became Executive Director of Genodics SAS (Paris), with the objective of providing evidence of
genodics through concrete applications in the feld, particularly in agriculture. In 2020, 170 farmers
used this process, over 2,500 ha, with around 40 applications. He leads on the research, distribution,
installation and monitoring of applications as well as partnerships with research teams.
Bertus Haverkort
Bertus Haverkort has worked for several decades in agricultural and rural development programmes
in Colombia, Bolivia, Ghana and India. He has been Manager of ILEIA (www.ileia.org) and has
worked in the ETC Foundation. More recently, he has been Visiting Professor at the University for
Developing Studies in Ghana. Bertus is author/co-author of several books including the following:
Towards Co-Creation of Sciences: Building on the Plurality of Worldviews, Values and Methods in
Different Knowledge Communities (2012); Ancient Roots, New Shoots: Endogenous Development
in Practice (2003); Food for Thought: Ancient Visions and New Experiments of Rural People (1999);
Linking with Farmers: Networking for Low-External-Input and Sustainable Agriculture (1993);
Farming for the Future: An Introduction to Low-External-Input and Sustainable Agriculture
(1992); and Joining Farmer’s Experiments: Experiences in Participatory Technology Development
(1991).
Pedro Jovchelevich
Pedro Jovchelevich is an agronomist with a Master’s degree (moon rhythms in biodynamic horticulture) and a PhD in biodynamic plant breeding. Pedro is General Manager of the Brazilian
Association of Biodynamic Agriculture (ABD), teacher of the Brazilian biodynamic course and
coordinator of ABD’s Participatory Guarantee System and the biodynamic seed network. He is
52 years old and married and has three children. He lives in the countryside in Botucatu, SP, Brazil
(www.biodinamica.org.br).
Eline Kieft
Eline Kieft has danced from a young age, including rigorous classical and contemporary training
to become a professional dancer. She explored indigenous ways of knowing through her studies
in anthropology (BA, MA). During her PhD in Dance at Roehampton University, London, she