What happens after shifting cultivation?
Our new paper in 'People and Nature' conceptualizes eight
archetypes of shifting cultivation transitions and reviews their drivers and consequences.
Paper: https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10435
Plain Language Summary: https://relationalthinkingblog.com/?p=5064
#LandSystems #LandUse #ShiftingCultivation #Conservation #Restoration #Sustainability #Science
#ChatGPT, what are key open debates and research questions concerning tropical agroforestry?
Not super-specific, but still quite comprehensive I would say.
Happy to share our #paper "How Social Considerations Improve the Equity and Effectiveness of Ecosystem Restoration" now out in #Bioscience
1) We outline how social processes can be better incorporated in restoration science and policy.
2) We show how projects that align with local people's preferences and with inclusive governance are more effective
3) We show that ca. 1.4 billion people live in "restoration priority areas"
New paper in Nature Climate Change:
Radical interventions for climate-impacted systems
Presents a typology of radical intervention based on recent studies of resilience, transition and transformation.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-022-01542-y
#climatecrisis #climatechange #transformation #SocialEcologicalSystems #biodiversity
Two sister-papers on 🇲🇬 #biodiversity just published in Science:
1) Madagascar’s extraordinary Biodiversity: Evolution, distribution, and use (https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abf0869)
2) Madagascar’s extraordinary biodiversity: Threats and opportunities (https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adf1466)
Important new paper: Implications of zero-deforestation palm oil for tropical grassy and dry forest biodiversity
Modelling reveals large swathes of land in tropical grassy and dry forest biomes that are climatically suitable for commercial plantations of oil palm and would comply with current zero-deforestation commitments, but where conversion to oil palm would, in many locations, cause loss of habitat and biodiversity.
My paper "Bird diversity and endemism along a land-use gradient in Madagascar: The conservation value of vanilla agroforests" won the Peter Ashton Prize for the outstanding paper in Biotropica by a student.
Thanks ATBC!
Paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/btp.12859
Story behind the paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/btp.13167
Preprint: Transparency, Traceability And Deforestation In The Ivorian Cocoa Supply Chain
https://insights.trase.earth/insights/cocoa-exports-drive-deforestation-in-cote-d-ivoire/
https://www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/epdf/10.31220/agriRxiv.2022.00156
Commodity traders Cargill, Olam, Barry Callebaut and Touton are exposed to high levels of deforestation in Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast), where 2.4 million hectares of forest has been cleared in the past two decades primarily to produce cocoa for Europe’s chocolate manufacturers.
New paper from the IPBES assessment:
The direct drivers of recent global anthropogenic biodiversity loss
Massive synthesis using pairwise comparisons to develop a hierarchy of drivers of biodiversity loss separate in main geographic regions, types of ecosystems, and dimensions of biodiversity.