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• The heat on land: Promoting multifunctional land-use systems – creating synergies between UNFCCC and the Sustainable Development Goals
  Climate Change, Land-use, Landscapes, Policy
  A new project from the Swedish Energy Agency (1,4 million kr) has landed at GMV - Centre for Environment and Sustainability. Focali members are leading and ...
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/news/the-heat-on-land-promoting-multifunctional-land-use-systems-2013-creating-synergies-between-unfccc-and-the-sustainable-development-goals
  
• WCA Poster presentation: Human security or resilience? The role of trees for climate change adaptation in the Burkina Faso parklands
  #forestfood, Agriculture, Agroforestry, Climate Change, Conference, Focaliresearcher, Land-use, Landscapes, Policy, Poverty
  The Focali researchers Jenny Friman and Per Knutsson will present a poster at the World Congress of Agroforestry in India 10-14th of February. The poster is ...
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/WCA-Burkina-Faso-poster.pdf.
  
• Agricultural commodity consumption and trade responsible for over 40% of tropical deforestation
  Climate Change, Deforestation, Deforestation drivers, Focali, Land-use, Landscapes, Tropical forests
  This new Focali brief is written by Martin Persson, Sabine Henders and Thomas Kastner and is mainly based on their article: Trading forests: land-use change ...
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/agricultural-commodity-consumption-and-trade-responsible-for-over-40-of-tropical-deforestation
  
• Reap what you sow: Turning agriculture into an opportunity for the youth in the Sahel
  Agriculture, Climate Change, Youth
  Rapid urbanization, swelling population and climate change will increase pressure on the agricultural sector, demanding innovation and work force to safeguard ...
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/news/reap-what-you-sow-turning-agriculture-into-an-opportunity-for-the-youth-in-the-sahel
  
• Focali brief: Food security in Sri Lankan homegardens
  Agroforestry, Climate Change, Ecosystem services, Focali, Rural development
  New Focali brief where Eskil Mattsson and Madelene Ostwald, together with S. P. Nissanka seek in the literature for evidence and information on the food ...
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/food-security-in-sri-lankan-homegardens-2013-what-does-science-tell-us
  
• What are the possibilities for agroforestry to ensure food security?
  Agroforestry, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Focali seminar, Focaliresearcher, Workshop
  Focali interim project coordinator Maria Göthberg together with Ekaterina Bessonova, SIANI, wrote an article based on presentations and discussions from the ...
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/what-are-the-possibilities-for-agroforestry-to-ensure-food-security
  
• Intermediate tree cover can maximize groundwater recharge in the seasonally dry tropics
  Agroforestry, Climate Change, Ecosystem services, Focaliresearcher, Landscapes, Water
  This is the result from a recently published study in Nature Publishing Group journal Scientific Reports by a team of researchers from CIFOR, ICRAF, CATIE and ...
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/intermediate-tree-cover-can-maximize-groundwater-recharge-in-the-seasonally-dry-tropics
  
• To leak or not to leak?: Land-Use Displacement and Carbon Leakage from Forest Conservation
  Climate Change, Deforestation, Deforestation drivers, Dissertation, Focaliresearcher, Land-use, Methodologies, Policy, REDD
  Focali researcher Sabine Henders successfully defended her PhD thesis on deforestation and land use displacement at Linköping University the 27th of March.
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/to-leak-or-not-to-leak-land-use-displacement-and-carbon-leakage-from-forest-conservation
  
• Watch our videos from November's Agroforestry Workshop
  Agroforestry, Climate Change, Ecosystem services, Focali seminar, Food security, Workshop
  Videos and presentations from our workshop on agroforestry have been published.
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/news/watch-our-videos-from-novembers-agroforestry-workshop
  
• New brief: How to reduce vulnerability in rural Burkina Faso: keeping the trees and planting more or diversifying the livelihoods?
  Agroforestry, Climate Change, Ecosystem services, Focali, Food security, Forests, Policy
  New publication by Jenny Friman within our thematic collaboration with SIANI. This brief explores how two different framings can produce different conclusions ...
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/news/how-to-reduce-vulnerability-in-rural-burkina-faso-keeping-the-trees-and-planting-more-or-diversifying-the-livelihoods
  
• Planting trees – a strategy for healing degraded land
  Agroforestry, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Deforestation, Focaliresearcher
  Focali interim project coordinator Maria Göthberg wrote an article based on the publication "The Role of Trees in Agroecology and Sustainable Agriculture in ...
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/planting-trees-2013-a-strategy-for-healing-degraded-land
  
• Focali brief: Can India´s wasteland be used for biomass plantations?
  Bioenergy, Climate Change, Focali, Land-use, Policy
  Focali brief 2015:02 by Madelene Ostwald, Göran Berndes and Martin Karlson with colleagues.
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/focali-brief-can-indias-wasteland-be-used-for-biomass-plantations
  
• Blog: Can Carbon Finance Take Small-scale Agroforestry to The Next Level?
  Agroforestry, Blog, Climate Change, Conference
  This blog is written by Eskil Mattsson, Matilda Palm (Focali) and Marion Davis (SEI) and is published by Thomson Reuters Foundation.
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/blog/archive/blog-can-carbon-finance-take-small-scale-agroforestry-to-the-next-level
  
• Focali Researchers to COP20 in Lima,Peru
  Climate Change, Conference, International Institutions, Landscapes, PES, REDD
  Four Focali researchers - Javier Godar, Toby Gardner, Fariborz Zelli and Tobias Nielson - will participate in side-events during COP20.
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/news/focali-reseachers-to-cop20-in-lima-peru
  
• Side-event with Focali Researchers at the United Nations Climate Conference
  Blog, Climate Change, Conference, Deforestation, Global Climate Governance, Global REDD-instruments, Policy, REDD
  Focali researcher Fariborz Zelli shares his experinces from the side-event "REDD and Beyond: International and Indigenous Strategies in Forest protection" in ...
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/blog/archive/side-event-with-focali-researchers-at-the-united-nations-climate-conference
  
• Johan Uddling
  Climate Change, Forests, Ozone, Photosynthesis, Transpiration
  Professor at Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/researchers/forskararkiv/johan-uddling
  
• Focali and SIANI at the World Congress on Agroforestry: Focus on trees and food security
  #forestfood, Agriculture, Agroforestry, Biodiversity, Carbon sequestration, Climate Change, Conference, Food security, Landscapes
  With two new issue briefs, presentations, blogging and social-media coverage, SIANI and its partner Focali will have a strong presence at the 10-14 February ...
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/news/focali-and-siani-at-the-world-congress-on-agroforestry-focus-on-trees-and-food-security
  
• REDD+ the poster boy for progress in Warsaw (COP19)
  Blog, Climate Change, Conference, REDD
  Lund University blog post from COP19 by the Focali researcher Tobias Dan Nielsen.
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/blog/archive/redd-the-poster-boy-for-progress-in-warsaw-cop19
  
• Andrea J. Nightingale
  Climate Change, Environmental governance, Feminist theory, Social justice, State formation
  Professor, Chair of Rural Development in the Global South, SLU, Uppsala
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/researchers/forskararkiv/associate-professor
  
• Landscape Approach: the New Hype? Reflections from the Global Landscape Forum
  #forestfood, Blog, Climate Change, Conference, Landscapes, Policy
  SIANI blog post by the Focali Project Coordinator Maria Ölund
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/blog/archive/landscape-approach-the-new-hype-reflections-from-the-global-landscape-forum
  
• Climate Sensitivity of Tropical Trees Along an Elevation Gradient in Rwanda
  Carbon sequestration, Climate Change, Focaliresearcher, Forests, Photosynthesis, Transpiration, Tropical forests
  New study from Rwandan researchers together with Focaliresearchers Johan Uddling and Göran Wallin on climate sensitivity of tropical trees along an elevation ...
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/climate-sensitivity-of-tropical-trees-along-an-elevation-gradient-in-rwanda
  
• Focali-researcher receives Chalmers Foundation Award for outstanding research on food
  Agriculture, Climate Change, Food, Land-use
  Focali-member Christel Cederberg is one of six researchers who has been awarded the Chalmers Foundation prize for research on societally important issues. The ...
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/news/focali-researcher-receives-chalmers-foundation-award-for-outstanding-research-on-food
  
• Human influence on climate clear, IPCC report says
  Climate Change
  The IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (WGI AR5) and the Summary for Policymakers has been published.
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/human-influence-on-climate-clear-ipcc-report-says
  
• Global Land Outlook - working paper on energy and land
  Climate Change, Desertification, Energy, Focaliresearcher, Land-use
  Focali researcher Göran Berndes is one of the main authors of the Global Land Outlook working paper on energy and land use - one in a series focusing on the ...
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/global-land-outlook
  
• Thresholds of species loss in Amazonian deforestation frontier landscapes
  Biodiversity, Climate Change, Deforestation, Focaliresearcher, Land-use
  Toby Gardner with collegues was published in Conservation Biology in January 2015.
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/thresholds-of-species-loss-in-amazonian-deforestation-frontier-landscapes
  
• Towards more accurate and policy relevant footprint analyses: Tracing fine-scale socio-environmental impacts of production to consumption
  Climate Change, Deforestation drivers, Focaliresearcher, International Trade, Policy
  Javier Godar and Martin Persson with colleagues got published in Ecological Economics.
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/towards-more-accurate-and-policy-relevant-footprint-analyses-tracing-fine-scale-socio-environmental-impacts-of-production-to-consumption
  
• Live streaming from Landscape-event at World Water Week
  Climate Change, Conference, Focali seminar, Forests, Water
  Focali participate as part of the Swedish Water House cluster group for Water and Forests.
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/news/live-streaming-from-landscape-event-at-world-water-week
  
• Agricultural and forestry trade drives large share of tropical deforestation emissions
  Agriculture, Climate Change, Deforestation, Environmental impact, Focaliresearcher, International Trade, Land-use
  Research from Focalimembers Florence Pendrill, Martin Persson, Javier Godar and others reveal that up to 39 % of emissions from deforestation are driven by ...
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/agricultural-and-forestry-trade-drives-large-share-of-tropical-deforestation-emissions
  
• Trees, forests and water: Cool insights for a hot world
  Agroforestry, Climate Change, Focaliresearcher, Water
  New paper from Focali members Aida Bargués Tobella and Ulrik Ilstedt together with 20 other authors from different universities, organisations and institutes; ...
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/trees-forests-and-water-cool-insights-for-a-hot-world
  
• “Georgetown ain’t got a tree. We got the trees” - Amerindian Power & Participation in Guyana’s LCDS
  Carbon sequestration, Climate Change, Deforestation, Focaliresearcher, Forest governance, Indigenous rights, REDD
  New paper co-authored by Sam Airey and Focali member Torsten Krause, examines to which extent the indigenous population of Guyana is included within the ...
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/201cgeorgetown-ain2019t-got-a-tree.-we-got-the-trees201d2014amerindian-power-participation-in-guyana2019s-low-carbon-development-strategy
  
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