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• New brief: Addressing food security & climate change with agroforestry, what are the policy options?
  Agroforestry, Ecosystem services, Focali, Food security, Landscapes
  A new publication by Eskil Mattsson within our thematic collaboration with SIANI.
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/news/new-brief-addressing-food-security-climate-change-with-agroforestry-what-are-the-policy-options
  
• 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
  
• 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
  
• Focali brief: What is the preference of Swedish forestry stakeholders - biodiversity or production goals?
  Biodiversity, Ecosystem services, Focali, Forests, Policy
  Focali brief 2015:01 by Anna Nordén with colleagues.
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/focali-brief-what-is-the-preference-of-swedish-forestry-stakeholders-biodiversity-or-production-goals
  
• 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
  
• 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 study on photosynthetic capacity of tropical trees
  Ecosystem services, Focaliresearcher, Photosynthesis, Tropical forests
  Göran Wallin and Johan Uddling with collegues gets published in Oecologia.
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/new-study-on-photosynthetic-capacity-of-tropical-trees
  
• Context Matters: Exploring the Cost-effectiveness of Fixed Payments and Procurement Auctions for PES
  Ecosystem services, Focaliresearcher, PES
  New paper by Focali researcher Martin Persson and colleagues Liv Lundberg, Francisco Alpizar and Kristian Lindgren explores the effectiveness of Payment for ...
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/context-matters-exploring-the-cost-effectiveness-of-fixed-payments-and-procurement-auctions-for-pes
  
• 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
  
• 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
  
• New Report: Water for Productive and Multifunctional Landscapes
  Ecosystem services, Environmental governance, Focaliresearcher, Land-use, Restoration, Water
  As part of the SIWI/SWH Cluster Group on Water in the Landscape, Focali-researchers Aida Bargués Tobella and Ulrik Ilstedt are co-authors to new report on ...
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/new-report-water-for-productive-and-multifunctional-landscapes
  
• 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
  
• Hunting jeopardizes forest carbon storage, yet is overlooked in climate mitigation efforts
  Biodiversity, Carbon sequestration, Defaunation, Ecosystem services, Forest governance, Hunting
  The loss of animals, often due to unregulated or illegal hunting, has consequences for the carbon storage capacity of forests, yet this link is rarely ...
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/news/hunting-jeopardizes-forest-carbon-storage-yet-is-overlooked-in-climate-mitigation-efforts
  
• Anna Nordén
  Behavioral economics, Biodiversity, Ecosystem services, Forest conservation policies, PES
  Assistant Professor in Economics, Jönköping International Business School, Jönköping University, and Domestic Associate within the program Women in ...
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/researchers/forskararkiv/anna-norden
  
• Torsten Krause
  Biodiversity, Conservation, Ecosystem services, Forests, Sustainability Science
  Assistant professor/Associate senior lecturer in Sustainability Science at Lund University.
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/researchers/forskararkiv/copy_of_torsten-krause
  
• Provide your feedback on the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration strategy
  Ecosystem services, Land degradation, Landscape approaches, Landscapes, Restoration, Sustainable land management
  Welcome to the open consultation process for the Strategy of the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021-2030. The United Nations invite you to ...
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/news/provide-your-feedback-on-the-un-decade-on-ecosystem-restoration-strategy
  
• Can more trees improve groundwater levels?
  Ecosystem services, Focaliresearcher, Landscapes, Research grants, Restoration, Rural development, Water
  Focali researchers have challenged the dominant paradigm in forest hydrology – that more trees equal less water – and their groundbreaking research has now ...
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/news/can-more-trees-improve-groundwater-recharge-focali-members-to-investigate-the-optimum-tree-cover-theory
  
• A glance at the HLPE report on Sustainable Forestry for Food Security and Nutrition
  Agroforestry, Bioenergy, Blog, Climate Change, Ecosystem services, Forest governance
  This year’s HLPE report, on Sustainable Forestry for Food Security and Nutrition, links forests and agriculture. Still there is a strong and persevering ...
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/blog/archive/a-glance-at-the-hlpe-report-on-sustainable-forestry-for-food-security-and-nutrition