TODO ES: Latin American-led climate research
TODO ES: Peer-reviewed methodology combining satellite data with social network analysis across five Latin American countries. Based in the Netherlands.
TODO ES: Published in Environmental Science and Policy (Elsevier)TODO ES: Affiliated with TU Delft
TODO ES: For institutional partners & funders
TODO ES: Rigorous climate and social vulnerability assessments of the Latin American coffee sector, grounded in peer-reviewed science and regional fieldwork.
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TODO ES: Country-level risk assessments across a 10–30 year horizon, integrating environmental projections with stakeholder network analysis.
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TODO ES: Join a growing network of Latin American and Caribbean researchers working on climate adaptation in the coffee sector.
TODO ES: View our publicationsTODO ES: The challenge
TODO ES: Coffee-producing regions across Latin America and the Caribbean face an existential climate threat: rising temperatures at altitude, shifting precipitation, flooding, drought, and the return of leaf rust.
TODO ES: Yet the people who understand that threat most intimately — the farmers, the local researchers, the communities living it every day — have been systematically excluded from the conversation about how to respond. Most climate risk assessments for the sector stop at satellite observations and supply-chain modeling, treating the social dimension as anecdotal.
TODO ES: Dialectik was founded to close that gap. Our work is grounded in the conviction that climate adaptation without community engagement is incomplete — and that rigorous social science is as measurable, and as important, as environmental data. Addressing the crisis requires tools that treat both dimensions, the ecological and the social, with equal rigor.
TODO ES: Our approach
TODO ES: Satellite imagery, LiDAR, climate models, and hydrological analysis to map physical vulnerability across coffee-producing regions — current conditions and 10–30 year projections.
TODO ES: The SNPI framework quantifies stakeholder collaboration, trust-building, power-sharing, and social learning within coffee sector governance networks through rigorous network metrics.
TODO ES: Social and environmental dimensions are treated as co-equal analytical pillars, producing country-level vulnerability profiles, network performance scores, and adaptation recommendations.
TODO ES: Geographic scope
TODO ES: A dual-scale architecture: a regional vulnerability assessment of the Latin American and Caribbean coffee sector, anchored in country-level case studies conducted by regional researchers.
TODO ES: Published research
TODO ES: Our work is grounded in peer-reviewed research published in Environmental Science and Policy, one of the leading journals in environmental governance.
TODO ES: The team
TODO ES: Founder · Lead Researcher · Social Network Performance Indicators (SNPI)
TODO ES: Dr. Teodoro is the founder of Dialectik and the creator of the Social Network Performance Indicators (SNPI) framework — a systematic approach to quantifying the quality of stakeholder collaboration in environmental governance. His work has been published in Environmental Science and Policy (Elsevier) in both 2024 and 2026, and has been applied to fieldwork in El Salvador, Brazil, and Canada.
TODO ES: Co-founder · Geospatial Data Scientist
TODO ES: Dr. Diaz is Dialectik's environmental science counterpart — a Geospatial Data Scientist at TU Delft, Europe's premier technical university, and an expert in remote sensing, LiDAR observation, hydrological modeling, and drought and flood risk assessment. His work draws on satellite imagery, climate models, and large-scale environmental datasets to quantify physical vulnerability across landscapes.
TODO ES: Sustainability Scientist · PhD Candidate
TODO ES: Bridget is an interdisciplinary sustainability scientist focused on collaborative governance, water resources, and network analysis. Her research investigates how patterns of collaboration among decision-making actors reflect the spatial and logistical complexity of the environmental problems they address, drawing on social-ecological resilience thinking and a systems perspective.
TODO ES: Data Scientist
TODO ES: Rick is a data scientist with 8+ years of experience building end-to-end analytical and machine learning systems. His work spans recommender systems, time-series forecasting, statistical modeling, and applied NLP — translating messy, real-world data into evidence that supports decision-making.
TODO ES: Whether you represent an institutional funder, a coffee sector business, or a fellow research organization, we would welcome a conversation about how our work can support yours.
TODO ES: Schedule a conversation→TODO ES: Or write to us directly: hello@dialectik.tech
