Henry Picado Cerdas

Henry Picado Cerdas is committed to defending biodiversity and community autonomy through ecological knowledge, agroecology, and grassroots organizing. Based in Costa Rica, he brings together the practices of beekeeping, farming, environmental advocacy, and movement media to support climate justice across Central America.

He has served as executive president of the Costa Rican Federation for the Conservation of Nature (FECON), president of the Biodiversity Coordination Network Association, and a member of the Green Block collective.

Henry is an editorial board member of Biodiversidad, sustento y culturas, a Latin American publication with more than 25 years dedicated to biodiversity conservation, critiques of biotechnology and patents, and the defense of public policies that support local autonomy. The magazine uplifts grassroots experiences from across the region, serving as a platform for Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities, small-scale farmers and producers, and fisherfolk working toward cultural and biological self-governance.

In recent years, he has also helped shape the magazine La Agroecóloga, a space for critical reflection on agriculture, climate chaos, community resistance, and the collective struggles against capitalist dispossession and environmental destruction.