Forests and trees - essential for food security on a landscape level

Today, on the International Day of Forests, Focali and SIANI publish the brief “Forests and trees – essential for food security on a landscape level”. The brief is written jointly by the two networks as a contribution to the upcoming FAO conference “Forests for Food Security and Nutrition” that will be held in May 2013.

Homegardens as a Multi-functional Land-Use Strategy in Sri Lanka with Focus on Carbon Sequestration

New article written by Focali researchers published in AMBIO

Conditional Cash Transfers and Payments for Environmental Services—A Conceptual Framework for Explaining and Judging Differences in Outcomes

New article: Focali researcher Martin Persson gets published in World Development.

Opportunities and Challenges to Capturing the Multiple Potential Benefits of REDD+ in a Traditional Transnational Savanna-Woodland Region in West Africa

Article written by Gunilla A. Olsson and Syna Ouattara published in AMBIO

Reference Levels: Concepts, Functions, and Application in REDD+ and Forest Carbon Standards

A new Climate Focus report is now published

Susanne von Walter share her reflections about the discussions at COP18 in Doha

Focali brief 2012:07 by Susanne von Walter

Methods for the quantification of emissions at the landscape level for developing countries in smallholder contexts

REDD and Poverty in Cambodia

Focali Report 2012:03 by Robin Biddulph

‘‘Carbon rights’’, REDD+ and payments for environmental Services

An article by: Alain Karsenty, Aurélie Vogel, Frédéric Castell

Monitoring forest carbon with remote sensing in the Sudano-Sahelian zone

Focali Brief 2012:06 by Martin Karlson

REDD+ revisited - steady pace or passed momentum?

Focali brief 2012:05 by Westholm, L., Mattsson, E., Ostwald, M.

Conflict and Rhetoric in Bolivian Forest Protection

Focali brief 2012:04 by Lisa Westholm

Promotion of beneficial agriculture investments and discouragement of land grabbing

Focali Brief 2012:03 by Jesper Karlsson

Version français du rapport d’un atelier sur les parcs agroforestiers au Burkina Faso.

Focali report 2012 par Gert Nyberg, Lisa Westholm et Maria Ölund

A French version of the scenario workshop report about the parklands in Burkina Faso is now available

Focali report: 2012:02 by Gert Nyberg, Lisa Westholm and Maria Ölund

Realizing REDD+: what role for Payments for Environmental Services?

Focali Brief 2012:02 by U. Martin Persson, Francisco Alpízar, Anna Nordén.

Accounting for carbon leakage from REDD+ are current quantification methods suitable?

Focali Brief 2012:01 by Sabine Henders

Forest cover change in Sri Lanka: The role of small scale farmers

Eskil Mattsson has together with the geography student Sara Lindström written an article about forest cover change in relation to small scale farmers in Sri Lanka. The article is published in the journal Applied Geography.

Grass: from local pastures to global energy markets in eastern Tanzania

Book chapter about local consequences of biofuel production in Tanzania

Proceedings from the Conference “Agricultural Research for Development: Scales and Diversity”

The conference was organized by Agri4D, SIANI, Focali, Future Agriculture, Future Forests and the Forest initiative and was held at SLU in Uppsala 28-29th of September 2011.

Scenarios for parklands in Burkina Faso - a report from a workshop for identifying research needs

Focali Report 2012:01 by Gert Nyberg, Lisa Westholm and Maria Ölund

REDD+ readiness implications for Sri Lanka in terms of reducing deforestation

An article by Eskil Mattsson, U. Martin Persson, Madelene Ostwald, S.P. Nissanka published in Journal of Environmental Management.

Conserve or convert? Pan-tropical modeling of REDD–bioenergy competition

An article in Biological Conservation by Martin Persson

Biofuels Baseline 2008

A report that serves as a baseline for the follow-up of the EU bioenergy directive

Tenure security interventions in Cambodia

An article by Robin Biddulph published in the journal Geografiska Annaler.

Forest Carbon Leakage Quantification Methods and Their Suitability for Assessing Leakage in REDD

A article by Sabine Henders and Madelene Ostwald published in the journal Forests.

Avoided Deforestation and Agriculture: Insights from Cambodia into a Complex Relationship

Focali Brief 2011:07 by Robin Biddulph

Country Report Sri Lanka. Land-use change and forestry at the national and sub-national level.

Focali Report 2011:04 by Rickard Näsström and Eskil Mattsson

The bioenergy and water nexus

A report on issues related to water and bioenergy prepared after a workshopo in Paris in July 2010.

The Norrköping Protocol for REDD+

Recommendations and proposals for a Swedish approach to REDD+ - strategically and practically - based on the results from a workshop held in Norrköping on March 21st, 2011.