Jimena Maria Solar Alvarez

Research Scientist

Sustainability Governance Impact Area

Phone
+41 31 684 69 45
E-Mail
jimena.solar@unibe.ch
Office
293
Postal Address
Jimena Maria Solar Alvarez
Centre for Development and Environment (CDE)
University of Bern
Mittelstrasse 43
CH-3012 Bern

Areas of professional focus at CDE

  • Sustainable natural resources management
  • Agricultural value chains
  • Forest governance
  • Trade cooperation

Projects

  • Environmental justice for human well-being (COMPASS)
  • Sustainable trade relations for diversified food systems

Field experience

South America and Switzerland

Languages

Spanish, English, German and Portuguese

Jump to: 2023 | 2022

2023

Oberlack, Christoph; Blare, Trent; Zambrino, Luca; Bruelisauer, Samuel; Solar, Jimena; Villar, Gesabel; Thomas, Evert; Ramírez, Marleni (2023). With and beyond sustainability certification: Exploring inclusive business and solidarity economy strategies in Peru and Switzerland. World development, 165, p. 106187. Elsevier 10.1016/j.worlddev.2023.106187

Solar, Jimena; Oberlack, Christoph (2023). Towards enabling legal and policy frameworks for private sustainability governance: the case of Peruvian-Swiss cacao and chocolate value chains Bern: Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), University of Bern

2022

Musselli, Irene; Solar, Jimena; Tribaldos, Theresa; Bürgi Bonanomi, Elisabeth (December 2022). Tropical Product Act and WTO Compliance. Preferential Tariff Treatment Based on PPMs: A Case Study (Working Paper NRP73 NRP73-WP06-2022). Bern: Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), University of Bern

Musselli, Irene; Solar, Jimena; Tribaldos, Theresa; Bürgi Bonanomi, Elisabeth (December 2022). Livestock Farming Act and WTO Compliance. Preferential Tariff Treatment Based on PPMs: A Case Study (Working Paper NRP73 NRP73-WP05-2022). Bern: Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), University of Bern

Solar, Jimena; Baumgartner, Urs (September 2022). Comparative policy and legal analysis of product differentiation with a focus on the EU’s approach to illegal fishery products, illegal timber, and unsustainable biofuel (Working Paper NRP73 NRP73-WP03-2022). Bern: Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), University of Bern

Oberlack, Christoph; Schilling-Vacaflor, Almut; Bischoff, Jenny; Brülisauer, Samuel; Klepp, Silja; Solar, Jimena; Steinegger, Sarah; Villar, Gesabel (2022). Institutionalizing environmental justice in policy, laws and private sector organizations University of Bern and University of Osnabrück

Karrer, Laurenzia; Zabel, Astrid; Hammer, Thomas; Herweg, Karl; Hirschbuehl, Tina; Illien, Patrick; Lemann, Tatenda; Lewis, Anna; Lundsgaard-Hansen, Lara; Mathez-Stiefel, Sarah-Lan; Ming, Eva; Moser, Stephanie; Providoli, Isabelle; Rueff, Henri; Solar Alvarez, Jimena; Trechsel, Lilian; Zeleke, Gete; Zimmermann, Anne (2022). Good Practice Guidelines. Digital Tools for Transdisciplinary and Transformative Research and Learning Bern, Switzerland: Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), University of Bern, with Bern Open Publishing (BOP)

Jacobi, Johanna; Toledo Vásquez, Daniela G.; Solar Alvarez, Jimena M.; Bürgi Bonanomi, Elisabeth (2022). “First we eat and then we sell”: participatory guarantee systems for alternative sustainability certification of Bolivian agri-food products. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 47(1), pp. 72-99. Taylor & Francis 10.1080/21683565.2022.2131692

Oberlack, Christoph; Blare, Trent; Zambrino, Luca; Bruelisauer, Samuel; Solar, Jimena; Villar, Gesabel; Thomas, Evert; Ramirez, Marleni (2022). Sustainability certification, inclusive business, and solidarity economy: prospects and limits for transformative change through private governance in Peru and Switzerland (Unpublished). In: POLLEN Conference 2022.

Bürgi Bonanomi, Elisabeth; Schäli, Judith; Belser, Eva Maria; Mazidi, Simon; Baumgartner, Urs; Giger, Markus; Franc, Andrea; Hett, Cornelia; Jacobi, Johanna; Mann, Stefan; Scharrer, Bettina; Solar, Jimena (2022). Hypothetisches Bundesgesetz über nachhaltigen Agrarhandel (Agrarhandelsgesetz, AhG), Synthese SNF-NFP 73 Projekt «Diversifizierte Ernährungssysteme dank nachhaltiger Handelsbeziehungen» Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), Universität Bern

  • EnJust-Network
  • The Latin American Chamber of Commerce in Switzerland (LATCAM)
  • Bar Association of Lima (CAL)