19. January 2026

Fernando Rodriguez-Camayo receives doctorate Fernando Rodriguez-Camayo defends doctoral thesis on Climate Resilience and Coffee Households’ Food (In) security

Fernando's research looked into Climate Resilience Actions and Coffee Households’ Food (In)security in Western Honduras

Fernando Rodriguez-Camayo (ZEF ECOL) defended his thesis on “Climate Resilience Actions and Coffee Households’ Food (In)security in Western Honduras” on January 19, 2026, at ZEF. 

Fernando Rodriguez-Camalo receives doctorate
Fernando Rodriguez-Camalo receives doctorate - In the photo: Fernando with his supervisors, tutors and members of the examination committee © ZEF PR
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Fernando defended his thesis on “Climate Resilience Actions and Coffee Households’ Food (In)security in Western Honduras” on January 19, 2026, at ZEF.

He obtained his doctorate by the Faculty of Agricultural, Nutritional and Engineering Sciences of the University of Bonn.

Fernando's supervisor was Professor Christian Borgemeister, Director of ZEF's Division on Ecology and Natural Resources Management (ECOL) and Professor Julian Ramirez-Villegas (Director for Climate Action at Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT.).

Alliance Biodiversity and CIAT.

Understanding coffee farmers’ poverty, food insecurity and adaptive responses to climate stress. Evidence from western Honduras. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crm.2025.100735 

Local food system and household responses to external shocks: the case of sustainable coffee farmers and their cooperatives in Western Honduras during COVID-19. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sustainable-food-systems/articles/10.3389/fsufs.2024.1304484/full