Gabriela Lucas Deecke is an agricultural engineer by profession and farmer by vocation. She has a master’s degree in Integrated Watershed Management. She worked for 10 years in public service in the area of rural development and indigenous peoples.
Since 2005 she started a family project to grow her own food and in 2011 she founded CIASPE with the intention of providing assertive answers to small producers who have limited resources and face adverse agricultural conditions.