Background:

Elisabeth has a PhD in Geography from Gothenburg University, Sweden, and has been a Post-doctoral research assistant at the School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds. She has also worked as an Agriculture extension specialist for UNDP in Vietnam.

Research focus:

Elisabeth's research interests lies within multifunctional farming systems, land use change, land use planning and policy and food security. She is currently involved in several research projects within the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) related to Scaling climate services, and Gender and migration. She is also working on Ecosystem-based adaptation (Vietnam); Decision support systems for agriculture planning (Myanmar); Green infrastructure and Nature-based solutions (Southeast Asia).

Keywords:

Integrated farming systems, adaptation, climate services, climate-smart agriculture, participatory methods, mixed methods

Relevant publications:

Borelli, Simelton et al. 2019. Agroforestry and tenure. FAO and ICRAF

Mulia and Simelton (eds) 2018. Towards low-emission landscapes in Viet Nam.  ICRAF. And Chapter by Simelton et al. 2018: on climate services for agroforestry.

Simelton et al. 2018. Guide for participatory impact assessments of climate services

Duong et al. 2017 Actionability of climate services in Southeast Asia . CCAFS. 

Simelton & Ostwald (eds) 2019. Multifunctional land uses in Africa. Sustainable food security solutions. Routledge.