Mariana Hase Ueta is a sociologist and social scientist working on China-Brazil relations focusing on food and sustainability. She is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands and a Visiting Researcher at the Center for Chinese Studies of the Chinese Academy of Social Science (CASS) and University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in Brazil Mathias Alencastro is a political scientist working on the international relations of Brazil. He has served in different capacities at the Brazilian government Rosana Pinheiro-Machado, anthropologist, is a Professor in the School of Geography at the University College Dublin