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• Trading forests: land-use change and carbon emissions embodied in production and exports of forest-risk commodities
  Deforestation, Focaliresearcher
  Article written by Focali members Sabine Henders and Martin Persson together with Thomas Kastner. Published in Environmental Research Letters. Also read the ...
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/trading-forests-land-use-change-and-carbon-emissions-embodied-in-production-and-exports-of-forest-risk-commodities
  
• Beyond the borders – burdens of Swedish food consumption due to agrochemicals, greenhouse gases and land-use change
  Agriculture, Deforestation, Environmental impact, Focaliresearcher, Trade
  A significant share of Sweden's environmental impact occur overseas. Sweden's large dependency on food imports cause not only tropical deforestation but also a ...
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/beyond-the-borders-2013-burdens-of-swedish-food-consumption-due-to-agrochemicals-greenhouse-gases-and-land-use-change
  
• Remote sensing of vegetation in the Sudano-Sahelian zone: A literature review from 1975 to 2014
  Deforestation, Focaliresearcher, Landscapes, Methodologies
  Martin Karlson and Madelene Ostwald were published in Journal of Arid Environments.
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/remote-sensing-of-vegetation-in-the-sudano-sahelian-zone-a-literature-review-from-1975-to-2014
  
• 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
  
• What future for primates? Conservation struggles in the forests of Cross River State, Nigeria
  Biodiversity, Conservation, Deforestation, Ecosystem services, Focaliresearcher, Forest governance
  Human induced faunal loss - defaunation - has been greatly overlooked when it comes to forest conservation and management. This recent study by Focali-members ...
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/what-future-for-primates-conservation-struggles-in-the-forests-of-cross-river-state-nigeria
  
• Brighter outlook for the rainforest?
  Agroforestry, Biodiversity, Deforestation, Focaliresearcher, Restoration, Tropical forests
  Focali member Martin Persson, in the studio when the Swedish Radio show Klotet reports on positive development of rain forest restoration in Costa Rica. ...
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/news/brighter-outlook-for-rainforest
  
• Defining Solutions, Finding Problems: Deforestation, Gender, and REDD+ in Burkina Faso
  Deforestation, Focaliresearcher, Gender, Policy, REDD
  Lisa Westholm and her colleague Seema Arora-Jonsson were published in Conservation and Society.
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/defining-solutions-finding-problems-deforestation-gender-and-redd-in-burkina-faso
  
• Effects of Governance on Availability of Land for Agriculture and Conservation in Brazil
  Agriculture, Conservation, Deforestation, Focaliresearcher, Land-use, Landscapes, Policy
  Focali member Göran Berndes and his colleagues Gerd Sparovek, Alberto Giaroli de Oliveira Pereira Barretto and Marcelo Matsumoto published in ...
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/effects-of-governance-on-availability-of-land-for-agriculture-and-conservation-in-brazil
  
• Javier Godar interviewed on global re-greening by Swedish television SVT
  Carbon sequestration, Deforestation
  In the interview Godar comments on the article “Recent reversal in loss of global terrestrial biomass” recently published in the journal Nature Climate Change ...
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/news/javier-godar-interviewed-about-global-re-greening-by-svt-swedish-television
  
• Javier Godar
  Deforestation, Deforestation drivers, Land-use, Rural development, Tropical forests
  Research Fellow, Stockholm Environment Institute, Stockholm
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/researchers/forskararkiv/javier-godar
  
• REDD+ and Tenure: A Review of the Latest Developments in Research, Implementation and Public Policy Debates
  Deforestation, Focaliresearcher, Global REDD-instruments, REDD and Poverty, Tropical forests
  Four Focali members co-wrote chapter in the newly published book "Forest Tenure Reform in Asia and Africa".
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/redd-and-tenure-a-review-of-the-latest-developments-in-research-implementation-and-public-policy-debates
  
• Do national strategies under the UN biodiversity and climate conventions address agricultural commodity consumption as deforestation driver?
  Deforestation, Deforestation drivers, Focaliresearcher, Forest governance, Land-use
  New publication on whether or not commodity driven deforestation is acknowledged within national strategies to reach UN biodiversity and climate conventions. ...
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/do-national-strategies-under-the-un-biodiversity-and-climate-conventions-address-agricultural-commodity-consumption-as-deforestation-driver
  
• 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
  
• Scaling up deforestation-free production and trade with jurisdictions
  Deforestation, Deforestation drivers, Focaliresearcher, International Trade, Land-use
  This book chapter, written by Focali members Javier Godar and Toby Gardner together with other members of the Trase team, outlines steps to facilitate ...
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/scaling-up-deforestation-free-production-and-trade-with-jurisdictions
  
• Rents, actors and the expansion of commodity frontiers in the Gran Chaco
  Agriculture, Deforestation, Deforestation drivers, Focaliresearcher, Land-use
  Focali researcher Javier Godar together with nine other researchers has recently published an article on the dynamics of agricultural frontier expansion and ...
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/rents-actors-and-the-expansion-of-commodity-frontiers-in-the-gran-chaco
  
• IUCN Call for papers: Enhancing food security through forest landscape restoration
  Deforestation, Landscapes, Mitigation, Tropical forests
  The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has issued a call for papers which provide empirical and scientific evidence of how forest ...
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/news/iucn-call-for-papers-enhancing-food-security-through-forest-landscape-restoration
  
• Oil palm for biodiesel in Brazil - risks and opportunities
  Bioenergi, Deforestation, Focaliresearcher, Land-use
  Oskar Englund, Göran Berndes and Martin Persson with colleague was published in IOPscience's Environmental Research Letters.
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/oil-palm-for-biodiesel-in-brazil-risks-and-opportunities
  
• 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
  
• Working paper from Focali researcher
  Biodiversity, Deforestation, Ecosystem services, Focaliresearcher, Forests
  Anna Nordén with colleagues release new working paper based on a previous study of stakeholder's preferences on issues of biodiveristy and production in the ...
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/working-paper-from-focali-researcher
  
• Doing bad by meaning good: exploring the side-effects of land restoration.
  Biodiversity, Conservation, Deforestation, Focaliresearcher, Land-use, Methodologies
  Based on the article “Creating space for large-scale restoration in tropical agricultural landscapes” published in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment ...
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/news/http-www.siani.se-news-doing-bad-meaning-good-exploring-side-effects-land-restoration
  
• Not seeing the forest for the trees: The oversight of defaunation in REDD+ and global forest governance
  Biodiversity, Carbon sequestration, Defaunation, Deforestation, Ecosystem services, Focaliresearcher, Forest governance, Global REDD-instruments
  Throughout the tropics, forests are increasingly devoid of larger mammals - a condition referred to as empty forests. Large mammals and birds fill important ...
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/not-seeing-the-forest-for-the-trees-the-oversight-of-defaunation-in-redd-and-global-forest-governance
  
• Have Brazil’s deforestation policies hit the limits of their effectiveness?
  Deforestation, Focaliresearcher, Forests, Tropical forests
  In a SEI news story Focali researchers Toby Gardner and Javier Godar describe their findings from a study on Brazil's deforestation.
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/news/have-brazil2019s-deforestation-policies-hit-the-limits-of-their-effectiveness
  
• A method for calculating a land-use change carbon footprint (LUC-CFP) for agricultural commodities – applications to Brazilian beef and soy, Indonesian palm oil
  Deforestation, Deforestation drivers, Focaliresearcher, Methodologies, Tropical forests
  New article: Focali researchers Martin Persson and Sabine Henders gets published in Global Change Biology.
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/a-method-for-calculating-a-land-use-change-carbon-footprint-luc-cfp-for-agricultural-commodities-2013-applications-to-brazilian-beef-and-soy-indonesian-palm-oil
  
• Have Brazil’s deforestation policies hit the limits of their effectiveness?
  Deforestation, Focaliresearcher, Forests, Tropical forests
  In a SEI news story Focali researchers Toby Gardner and Javier Godar describe their findings from a study on Brazil's deforestation.
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/have-brazils-deforestation-policies-hit-the-limits
  
• Focali researchers Martin Persson and Sabine Henders get published in Global Change Biology
  Deforestation, Deforestation drivers, Focaliresearcher, Forests, Methodologies, Tropical forests
  Martin Persson, Sabine Henders and Christel Cederberg's research gets published in Global Change Biology.
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/news/focali-researcher-martin-gets-published-in-global-change-biology
  
• New Era in the Fight Against Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: Opportunities to Improve Policy Effectiveness
  Conservation, Deforestation, Focaliresearcher, Landscapes, Tropical forests
  In a new policy brief from SEI Focali researchers Javier Godar and Toby Gardner look at why deforestation policies in Brazil, after a decade of success, are ...
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/new-era-in-the-fight-against-deforestation-in-the-brazilian-amazon-opportunities-to-improve-policy-effectiveness
  
• 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
  
• Anna Nordén has defended her PhD thesis: Essays on Behavioral Economics and Policies for Provision of Ecosystem Services
  Deforestation, Dissertation, PES, REDD
  Focali researcher Anna Nordén has conducted research on policies to reduce deforestation - mainly PES, payment for ecosystem services.
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/news/focali-researcher-anna-norden-has-defended-her-phd-thesis-201cessays-on-behavioral-economics-and-policies-for-provision-of-ecosystem-services201d
  
• CIFOR in Bogor / Indonesia is looking for a Forestry scientist specialising in carbon reduction
  Deforestation, REDD
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/news/cifor-is-looking-for-a-forestry-scientist-specialising-in-carbon-reduction
  
• Whose Reality Counts? Critical Junctures in Livelihood Trajectories Under Deforestation
  Deforestation, Focaliresearcher
  New article by Focali member Robin Biddulph and colleague Pelle Amberntsson published in Journal of Economic and Social Geography on livelihood trajectories ...
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/whose-reality-counts-critical-junctures-in-livelihood-trajectories-under-deforestation
  
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