Anke Kaulard is a political sociologist specializing in sustainable global value networks, territorial governance, and feminist political economy and ecology. She studied Regional Latin American Studies at the University of Cologne and received her PhD in Sociology from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP). As a trAndeS PhD fellow, a joint program of PUCP and the Free University of Berlin, she was awarded a certificate in Sustainable Development and Inequalities. Her research is grounded in long-term ethnographic engagement in the Peruvian Amazon and examines how questions of value, justice, gender, and regulation are negotiated in global agrifood networks, particularly cocoa and its by-products. She contributes a distinct women’s and feminist perspective to debates on climate justice, and sustainability transitions. She is co-investigator of the IDRC-funded project Indigenous Visions for Climate Justice of the PUCP, research associate of PUCP’s project Subaltern Cartographies, and has worked as co-investigator in the University of Melbourne’s project Beyond Certification: New Models of sustainable commodity governance.

• Sustainable and resilient global value networks
• Climate Justice, territorial governance and land rights
• Sustainability transitions and regulations
• Indigenous economies, feminist political economy and ecology

• Kaulard, A. (forthcoming 2025). Sustainable Cocoa in the Peruvian Amazon: Agricultural Transformations in an Extractivist Landscape. Routledge.
• Kaulard, A.; Paredes, M.; Gil, D. (2025). Crystallizing Territorial Visions and Claims: Critical Mapping with Amazonian Kichwa Communities in Climate Change Politics. Canadian Journal of Action Research.
• Paredes, M., Kaulard, A., & Gil, D. (2025). Participation Artifacts: Conservation and Climate Governance with Indigenous Amazonian Communities. Latin American Perspectives.
• Kaulard, A., Macdonald, K., & Tafur, P. (2024). Foreign corporate accountability meets re-territorialized sustainability governance: synergies or conflicts in Peruvian agro-commodity supply chains. Presented at LASA 2024 Congress, Bogotá.
• Paredes, M.; Kaulard, A. (2023). Forest as Nature or Forest as Territory? In Climate Change and Critical Agrarian Studies. Routledge.
• Paredes, M.; Kaulard, A. (2020). Fighting the Climate Crisis in Persistently Unequal Land Regimes: Natural Protected Areas in the Peruvian Amazon. Journal of Cleaner Production, 265, 121605.