Saturnino (Jun) Borras collaborated with UNRISD for the project Civil Society Strategies and Movements for Rural Asset Redistribution and Improved Livelihoods 2000-2003. He was also a presenter at the 2012 workshop "Gender and Agriculture after Neoliberalism".
At the time of his collaboration, Borras was an Associate Professor in Rural Development, Environment and Population at the Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in The Hague, Netherlands. He was also Adjunct Professor, COHD at China Agricultural University, Beijing; a Fellow for
Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy in California, Coordinator for
Initiatives in Critical Agrarian Studies (ICAS), and Editor-in-Chief of
The Journal of Peasant Studies (JPS).