Xiomara F. Quinones-Ruiz
Ass.Prof. Priv.Doz.Dr. Xiomara F. Quinones-Ruiz MA
Institute of Sustainable Economic Development
Location Feistmantelstraße 4, 1180 Wien
Email xiomara.quinones-ruiz@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-73121
ORCID: 0000-0001-7700-4008, opens in new window.
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Research Focus
Disciplines: Sociology of Agriculture and Development Research. Areas: Food systems and value chain analysis, collective action, sustainability and social-ecological systems following qualitative and quantitative methods; and the use of relational approaches to foster rural business promotion based on transdisciplinary and ethnographic methods.
Career
- 2017 - 2024 Senior Scientist
- 2012 - 2017 Project staff
- 2007 - 2010 Consultant at UNIDO, Vienna
Awards
- Year: 2018 Awards: FWF-Hertha Firnberg Stipendium
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Presentations
28 lecures found.
Year: 2025 - Green or roasted coffee? How a collective of organic producers challenges the quality construction by overseeing quality attributes, relational approaches and knowledge
Art: Talk - Selected presentation
Autoren: Quinones-Ruiz, X F
Event: 30th European Society for Rural Sociology Congress 2025
Period: 07.07.2025 - 11.07.2025 | Location: Riga, Riga, Lettland | Organizer:
Rīga Stradiņš University
Year: 2025 - A decolonial approach to face the coffee paradox
Art: Talk - Keynote Speaker (Invited Speaker)
Autoren: Khalifé, C; Quinones-Ruiz, X F
Event: 4th Coffee Research Talk
Period: 05.09.2025 - 06.09.2025 | Location: Wien, Wien, Österreich | Organizer:
IPB University
Year: 2025 - Bitter truth about global value chains for coffee: Is the attainment of quality enough?
Art: Lecture - Selected presentation
Autoren: Quinones-Ruiz, X F
Event: Summer Course – Food Science and Technology
Period: 28.07.2025 - 05.08.2025 | Location: Bogor, Indonesien | Organizer:
IPB University
Year: 2025 - Bitter truth about global value chains for coffee: Is the attainment of quality enough? Part II
Art: Lecture - Selected presentation
Autoren: Quinones-Ruiz, X F
Event: Summer Course – Food Science and Technology
Period: 28.07.2025 - 05.08.2025 | Location: Bogor, Indonesien | Organizer:
IPB University
Year: 2023 - Brokerage processes of social relations and knowledge across global value chains for coffee: The case of Colombian and European coffee players
Art: Talk - Selected presentation
Autoren: Quinones-Ruiz, X F
Event: 2nd Annual Conference of the Working Group on Agri-Food Geographies
Period: 23.03.2023 - 25.03.2023 | Location: Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Deutschland | Organizer:
Universität Hohenheim
Year: 2019 - Socio‐ecological Systems between Protection and Adaption - An Empirical Analysis of European Food Geographical Indications
Art: Talk - Selected presentation
Autoren: Penker, M; Belletti, G; Marescotti, A; Scaramuzzi, S; Jeanneaux, P; Casabianca, F; Quiñones-Ruiz, XF; Forster, H; Broscha, K; Altenbuchner, C; Braito, M
Event: Agrarökonomisches Seminar „Sozial‐ökologische Perspektiven auf die Landnutzung“
Period: 28.05.2019 | Location: Göttingen, Germany
Year: 2019 - Social proximity & shorter value chains: an alternative to challenge the current governance in the coffee sector?
Art: Talk - Selected presentation
Autoren: Forster, H; Quiñones-Ruiz, X F; Penker, M
Event: International Association for the Study of the Commons Conference
Period: 01.07.2019 - 05.07.2019 | Location: Lima, Peru
Year: 2019 - Coffee quality understanding and its evolution in Colombia – Challenging the mainstream quality practices?
Art: Talk - Selected presentation
Autoren: Quiñones Ruiz, X F
Event: Adapting Coffee Production and Relations – Coffee Research Talk
Period: 02.09.2019 - 07.09.2019 | Location: Vienna, Austria
Year: 2019 - La mujer cafetera como promotora de la calidad e innovación - Foro Mujeres
Art: Talk - Keynote Speaker (Invited Speaker)
Autoren: Quiñones-Ruiz, X F
Event: ExpoEspeciales | Café de Colombia 2019
Period: 17.10.2019 - 20.10.2019 | Location: Bogotá, Colombia
Year: 2019 - Analysing global differentiated value chains. An analytic framework for understanding coffee and cotton chains
Art: Talk - Selected presentation
Autoren: Forster, H; Altenbuchner, C; Quiñones-Ruiz X F
Event: Österreichische Gesellschaft für Soziologie Kongress
Period: 26.09.2019 - 28.09.2019 | Location: Salzburg, Austria
Year: 2018 - Quality between Territory, Tradition and Innovation: An Analysis on PDO-PGI Amendments. The Case of Cheeses
Art: Talk - Selected presentation
Autoren: Quiñones-Ruiz, XF; Penker, M; Belletti G; Marescotti, A; Forster, H; Scaramuzzi, S; Broscha, K; Altenbuchner, C.
Event: CONGRESSO AISME
Period: 21.02.2018 - 23.02.2018 | Location: Florence, Italy
Year: 2018 - Are geographical indications heading towards more environment-friendly Product Specifications? An analysis of PDO-PGI amendments in the fruit and vegetable sector
Art: Talk - Selected presentation
Autoren: Forster, H; Marescotti, A; Quiñones-Ruiz, XF; Penker, M; Scaramuzzi, S; Belletti, G; Broscha, K; Altenbuchner, C
Event: 13th European IFSA Symposium 2018 - Farming systems: facing uncertainties and enhancing opportunities
Period: 01.07.2018 - 05.07.2018 | Location: Chania, Greece
Year: 2018 - Registering GIs in the EU – Insights from EU and Non-EU Countries
Art: Talk - Selected presentation
Autoren: Quiñones Ruiz, XF; Belletti, G; Scaramuzzi, S; Marescotti, A; Penker, M
Event: 8th Conference on Localized Agro-food Systems (SIAL)
Period: 13.11.2018 - 15.11.2018 | Location: Manizales, Colombia
Year: 2018 - Interacting and evolving quality conventions: An institutional Analysis of international Coffee Value Chains
Art: Talk - Selected presentation
Autoren: Quiñones-Ruiz, X F
Event: 39. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie
Period: 24.09.2018 - 28.09.2018 | Location: Göttingen, Germany
Year: 2018 - Herausforderungen für Kaffeebauern und -bäuerinnen - Nicht unser Kaffee, oder doch?
Art: Talk - Keynote Speaker (Invited Speaker)
Autoren: Penker, M; Quiñones-Ruiz, XF
Event: Denk.Mal.Global, Südwind Oberösterreich, VHS Linz
Period: 24.01.2018 | Location: Linz, Austria
Year: 2018 - The role of rural tourism as valorization strategy of origin products: The case of coffee in Colombia
Art: Talk - Selected presentation
Autoren: Quiñones-Ruiz, X F; Scaramuzzi, S
Event: Forum Origin, Diversity and Territories - Origin-linked Products and Sustainable Rural Tourism
Period: 19.09.2018 - 21.09.2018 | Location: Turin, Italy
Year: 2018 - Going beyond standards for coffee? – Insights from Colombia
Art: Talk - Selected presentation
Autoren: Quiñones Ruiz, X F
Event: 8th Conference on Localized Agro-food Systems (SIAL)
Period: 13.11.2018 - 15.11.2018 | Location: Manizales, Colombia
Year: 2017 - Amending Product Specifications Of Geographical Indications In The EU: Between Identity and Cost-Competiveness
Art: Talk - Selected presentation
Autoren: Quiñones-Ruiz, XF; Penker, M; Belletti, G; Marescotti, A; Scaramuzzi, S
Event: 15th EAAE Congress Towards Sustainable Agri-Food Systems 2017 - Balancing Between Markets and Society
Period: 28.08.2017 - 01.09.2017 | Location: Parma, Italy
Year: 2017 - Institutional conditions for the adaptability of quality standards of registered GIs in the European Union
Art: Talk - Selected presentation
Autoren: Quiñones-Ruiz, XF; Penker, M; Altenbuchner, C; Belletti, G; Marescotti, A; Scaramuzzi, S
Event: IASC Conference 2017
Period: 10.07.2017 - 14.07.2017 | Location: Utrecht, Netherlands
Year: 2017 - Evolving and interacting quality institutions of global coffee chains – The case of Colombia
Art: Talk - Selected presentation
Autoren: Quinones-Ruiz, XF
Event: The 24th International Conference of Agri-food Research Network”.
Period: 01.12.2017 - 05.12.2017 | Location: Bandung, Indonesia
Year: 2016 - Geographical Indications for rural and trade development promotion
Art: Talk - Keynote Speaker (Invited Speaker)
Autoren: Quiñones-Ruiz, X F
Event: 2016 International Symposium on Geographical Indications (Country of Origin) – Product Brand Distribution Service (GIDS)
Period: 28.05.2016 - 31.05.2016 | Location: Beijing, PR China
Year: 2016 - Degree of collective action when registering Protected Geographical Indications
Art: Talk - Selected presentation
Autoren: Quiñones-Ruiz, XF; Penker, M; Belletti, G; Marescotti, A; Scaramuzzi, S
Event: European Conference of the International Association of the Commons: Commons in a “Glocal” World: Global Connections and Local Responses
Period: 10.05.2016 - 13.05.2016 | Location: Bern, Switzerland
Year: 2015 - Collective efforts, risks and benefits of registering GIs in the EU
Art: Talk - Selected presentation
Autoren: Quinones Ruiz, X F; Penker, M; Belletti, G; Marescotti, A; Scaramuzzi, S
Event: 145th EAAE Seminar “Intellectual Property Rights for Geographical Indications: What is at Stake in the TTIP?”
Period: 14.04.2015 - 15.04.2015 | Location: Parma, Italy
Year: 2015 - Collective action milieus for coffee growers in Colombia and Thailand
Art: Talk - Selected presentation
Autoren: Quinones Ruiz, X.F., Nigmann, T., Penker, M.
Event: Second International Conference on Agriculture in an Urbanizing Society. Reconnecting Agriculture and Food Chains to Societal Needs
Period: 14.09.2015 - 17.09.2015 | Location: Rome, Italy
Year: 2014 - Comparing registration efforts for Protected Geogra phical Indications in Austria, Colombia and Italy
Art: Talk - Selected presentation
Autoren: Quiñones-Ruiz, X.F., Barzini, E., Belletti, G., Marescotti, A., Penker, M., Scaramuzzi, S.
Event: 2014 IFSA Europe Group Symposium
Period: 01.04.2014 - 04.04.2014 | Location: Berlin, Germany
Year: 2014 - How could the Colombian coffee organisation access Geographical Indications in the European Union?
Art: Talk - Selected presentation
Autoren: Quinones Ruiz, X F; Penker, M; Vogl, C R; Samper-Gartner, L F
Event: IASC 3rd European Meeting 2014
Period: 16.09.2014 - 19.09.2014 | Location: Umea, Sweden | Location: Umea, Sweden
Year: 2013 - Producers registering Geographical Indications in the European Union - The case of the pioneer Café de Colombia
Art: Talk - Selected presentation
Autoren: Quinones Ruiz, X F; Penker, M; Vogl, C; Samper-Gartner, L. F
Event: XXVth ESRS Congress
Period: 29.07.2013 - 01.08.2013 | Location: Florence, Italy
Year: 2013 - Producers registering Geographical Indications in the European Union -The case of the pioneer Café de Colombia
Art: Talk - Selected presentation
Autoren: Quiñones-Ruiz, X.F., Penker, M., Vogl, C.R., Samper-Gartner, L.G.
Event: XXVth ESRS Congress
Period: 29.07.2013 - 01.08.2013 | Location: Florence, Italy
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