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Ethnobiologist with experience in Agroecology

Profile Summary

I designed and executed a field study focused on local family farming systems. My methodology included conducting comprehensive agrobiodiversity inventories and semi-structured interviews with farming families. By triangulating interview data with secondary sources, I reconstructed a 15-year history of the local farmers' market. Additionally, I performed a comparative analysis of crop yields and prepared goods across two seasons to evaluate shifting market trends and the long-term decision-making processes that sustain domestic food production.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ☆ Horticulture
• ☆ Organic Farming
• ☆ Biodiversity
• ☆ Agroecology
• ☆ Biological Anthropology
• ☆ Ecological Anthropology
• ☆ Urban Studies
• ☆ Food Security

Services

• Writing
• Research

Writing Audio Transcription, General Proofreading & Editing, Translation

Research Fact Checking, Scientific and Technical Research

Work Experience

Academic Research Assistant

Universidad del Tolima

September 2013 - November 2013

Education

Doctora en Biología (Grupo de Etnobiología)

Universidad Nacional del Comahue

January 2018 - January 2025

Diplomatura en Cannabis y sus usos medicinales

Universidad Nacional Arturo Jauretche

September 2021 - May 2022

Licenciada en Biodiversidad (Biología)

Universidad Nacional del Litoral

February 2005 - July 2015

Certifications

• Deutsch Test für Zuwanderer B1

  Gesellschaft für Akademische Studienvorbereitung und Testentwicklung e.V. (g.a.s.t.)

  October 2025 - Present

• DELF A2

  Diplôme d'Etudes en Langue Française

  May 2022 - Present

• Certificação de Proficiência em Língua Portuguesa (Celpe-Bras) - Intermediário superior

  Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisas Educacionais Anísio Teixeira - Inep

  November 2011 - Present

• First Certificate in English (FCE)

  Cambridge English qualification

  December 2004 - December 2014

Publications

BOOK CHAPTER

Ana Ladio, Catalina Rico Lenta, Melisa Longo Blasón, Adriana Rovere, Pablo Grimaldi, Fernando Céspedes(2025). Edible exotic weeds for food security and food sovereignty in NW Patagonia . Agroecology of Edible Weeds and Non-Crop Plants. p. 163–181. Elsevier

Subodh Adhikari, Melisa Longo Blasón, Thomás F. Boscaine, Larisse M. de A. Cavalcante, Fernando Céspedes, Antonio DiTommaso, Diego dos Santos, Roland Ebel, Bruce G. Ferguson, Juan H. Gowda, et al.(2025). List of contributors . Agroecology of Edible Weeds and Non-Crop Plants. p. xiii–xv. Elsevier

Ana Haydeé Ladio, Melina Fernanda Chamorro, Melisa Stefania LONGO BLASON (2023). Patrimônio etnoagroflorestal do noroeste da Patagônia . Agroecologia e povos tradicionais na América Latina e Caribe.

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Melisa S. Longo-Blasón, Soledad Molares, Ana H. Ladio (2024). Dimensiones bioculturales en la trayectoria de una feria franca de agricultores familiares en la Patagonia Argentina . Revista Austral de Ciencias Sociales.

Longo Blasón, M.S., Molares, S., Ladio, A.H.(2024). Biocultural dimensions in the trajectory of a free trade fair of family farmers in Patagonia Argentina,Dimensiones bioculturales en la trayectoria de una feria franca de agricultores familiares en la Patagonia Argentina . Revista Austral De Ciencias Sociales. 2024. (47). p. 27-48.

(2024). Preventive, Curative, and Tolerance Practices: Family Farmers' Local Ecological Knowledge regarding Harmful Crop Arthropods in NW Patagonia . ETHNOBIOLOGY AND CONSERVATION.

Grimaldi, P.A., Céspedes, F.N., Lenta, C.R., Blasón, M.S.L., Ladio, A.(2024). Preventive, Curative, and Tolerance Practices: Family Farmers’ Local Ecological Knowledge regarding Harmful Crop Arthropods in NW Patagonia . Ethnobiology and Conservation. 13. p. 1-25.

Melisa S. Longo Blazon, Soledad Molares, Ana H. Ladio (2023). FE DE ERRATAS: Las etnoespecies comercializadas en la feria de agricultores de Bariloche (Rio Negro, Argentina) y su versatilidad en alimentos locales: Contribuciones hacia la soberanía alimentaria local . Boletín de la Sociedad Argentina de Botánica.

Resilience processes and positioning of agroecological farmers in an urban horticultural fair in northwest Patagonia @article{Ladio_2023, title={Resilience processes and positioning of agroecological farmers in an urban horticultural fair in northwest Patagonia}, volume={25}, ISSN={1547-3465}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.32859/era.25.54.1-35}, DOI={10.32859/era.25.54.1-35}, journal={Ethnobotany Research and Applications}, publisher={Ilia State University}, author={Ladio, Ana and Longo, Melisa and Molares, Soledad}, year={2023}, month=jun } . Ethnobotany Research and Applications.

Blasón, M.S.L., Molares, S., Ladio, A.H.(2023). The ethnospecies traded in the Bariloche farmers’ fair (Rio Negro, Argentina) and their versatility in local foods: Contributions towards local food sovereignty, ((Número Especial: Etnobiología Latinoamericana) (2022), 57(3), (10.31055/1851.2372.v57.n3.37329)),Las etnoespecies comercializadas en la feria de agricultores de Bariloche (Rio Negro, Argentina) y su versatilidad en alimentos locales: Contribuciones hacia la soberanía alimentaria Local, ((Número Especial: Etnobiología Latinoamericana) (2022), 57(3), (10.31055/1851.2372.v57.n3.37329)) . Boletin De La Sociedad Argentina De Botanica. 58. (2). p. 309-309.

(2023). THE ETHNOSPECIES TRADED IN THE BARILOCHE FARMERS' FAIR (RIO NEGRO, ARGENTINA) AND THEIR VERSATILITY IN LOCAL FOODS: CONTRIBUTIONS TOWARDS LOCAL FOOD SOVEREIGNTY (vol 57, pg 335, 2022) . BOLETIN DE LA SOCIEDAD ARGENTINA DE BOTANICA.

Melisa Stefania Longo Blasón, Soledad Molares, Ana Haydée Ladio (2022). Las etnoespecies comercializadas en la feria de agricultores de Bariloche (Río Negro, Argentina) y su versatilidad en alimentos locales: contribuciones hacia la soberanía alimentaria local . Boletín de la Sociedad Argentina de Botánica.

(2022). THE ETHNOSPECIES TRADED IN THE BARILOCHE FARMERS' FAIR (RIO NEGRO, ARGENTINA) AND THEIR VERSATILITY IN LOCAL FOODS: CONTRIBUTIONS TOWARDS LOCAL FOOD SOVEREIGNTY . BOLETIN DE LA SOCIEDAD ARGENTINA DE BOTANICA.

Longo Blasón, M.S., Molares, S., Ladio, A.H.(2022). The ethnospecies traded in the Bariloche farmers’ fair (Rio Negro, Argentina) and their versatility in local foods: Contributions towards local food sovereignty,Las etnoespecies comercializadas en la feria de agricultores de Bariloche (Rio Negro, Argentina) y su versatilidad en alimentos locales: Contribuciones hacia la soberanía alimentaria local . Boletin De La Sociedad Argentina De Botanica. 57. (3).