Jaskiran is a political ecologist with an interdisciplinary background in the Social Sciences. She holds a PhD in Development Studies from the Institute of Americas, UCL. For her PhD she researched the contestation between industrial farming and agroecology in two Zonas de Reserva Campesino (Valle del Rio Cimitarra and Cabrera), Colombia to understand how these rural communities construct alternative sustainable development and the obstacles they face. This thesis included field research in rural Colombia, short-ethnography and interviews with multiple-stakeholders from campesinos, to academics, civil servants and politicians. Jaskiran also worked on the POR EL Páramo (POst-conflict Reconciliation of Environment and Livelihoods in Boyacá Páramo) project in Colombia, aiming to better understand conservation-livelihood tensions for campesinos in the Páramo region of Boyacá. In this project she researched the challenges facing agropastoralists in a corporate-led food system and a conservation landscape that looks to dispossess them. She also explored the impacts of agro-extractivism on campesino farmers and how campesinos contribute to this phenomenon. She is currently a lecturer at the School of Geographical Sciences in the University of Bristol, teaching and researching on political ecology, coloniality, decolonisation, agroecology, conflict-agriculture, gender and rurality among other themes, as well as PI on the project 'Peasant and Popular Feminism: Co-constructing Sustainability and Peace'.