Michel Pimbert is Director of the Centre for Agroecology and Food Security at Coventry University, a position that he will assume in early spring 2013. Over the last 20 years he has authored and edited several books, journal articles, technical and policy papers on sustainable agriculture, the political ecology of biodiversity and natural resource management, participatory action research, and deliberative democratic processes. His latest co-edited books include Social Change and Conservation (Earthscan), The Life Industry (Intermediate Technology Publications), and Sharing Power. Learning by doing in the co-management of natural resources throughout the World (IUCN and IIED).