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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
  
• Life history traits predict the response to increased light among 33 tropical rainforest tree species
  Focaliresearcher, Tropical forests
  Article by Focali researcher Malin Gustafsson and her colleagues Gustafsson L, Alloysius D, Falck J, Yap S, Karlsson A, Ilstedt U. Also read Focali blog and ...
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/life-history-traits-predict-the-response-to-increased-light-among-33-tropical-rainforest-tree-species
  
• 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
  
• The bioenergy and water nexus
  Bioenergy, Focaliresearcher, Land-use, Water
  A report on issues related to water and bioenergy prepared after a workshopo in Paris in July 2010.
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/the-bioenergy-and-water-nexus
  
• Tropical mountain forests store more carbon than expected
  Focaliresearcher
  Tropical forests in Africa’s mountains store more carbon than previously thought. At the same time, vast amounts of the forests have already been lost. “This ...
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/tropical-mountain-forests-store-more-carbon-than-expected
  
• 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.
  
• 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
  
• Carbon and Cash in Climate Assemblages: The Making of a New Global Citizenship
  Carbon sequestration, Focaliresearcher, REDD
  Article by Seema Arora-Jonsson, Focali member Lisa Westholm, Beatus John Temu and Andrea Petitt to be published in Antipode later this year. Now available ...
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/carbon-and-cash-in-climate-assemblages-the-making-of-a-new-global-citizenship
  
• Carbon sequestration in tropical forests and water: a critical look at the basis for commonly used generalizations
  Carbon sequestration, Focaliresearcher, REDD, Tropical forests, Water
  An article written by Focali reseacher Anders Malmer et. al. and it is published in Global Change Biology.
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/carbon-sequestration-in-tropical-forests-and-water-a-critical-look-at-the-basis-for-commonly-used-generalizations
  
• Exploring the impact of social norms and perceptions on women's participation in customary forest and land governance in the Democratic Republic of Congo— implications for REDD+
  Focaliresearcher, Gender, REDD, Tenure
  Article by Focali member Torsten Krause and Stiem, L published in International Forestry Review
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/exploring-the-impact-of-social-norms-and-perceptions-on-womens-participation-in-customary-forest-and-land-governance-in-the-democratic-republic-of-congo2014-implications-for-redd
  
• 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
  
• Bioenergy production and sustainable development: science base for policymaking remains limited
  Bioenergy, Focaliresearcher
  New article co-authored by Focali member Göran Berndes and the Focali Project Coordinator Maria Ölund published in GCB Bioenergy. The article is based on a ...
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/bioenergy-production-and-sustainable-development-science-base-for-policymaking-remains-limited
  
• 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
  
• The politics of natural resource enclosure in South Africa and Ecuador
  Environmental governance, Focaliresearcher, Forests, Policy, Sustainability Science
  Torsten Krause with colleagues are published in Conservation and Society.
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/the-politics-of-natural-resource-enclosure-in-south-africa-and-ecuador
  
• Conserving carbon and gender relations? Gender perspectives on REDD+ and global climate policy
  Dissertation, Focaliresearcher, Gender, Global Climate Governance, Global REDD-instruments, REDD
  The REDD+ instrument, aimed at conserving tropical forests and its stored carbon, have explicit considerations of gender sensitivity, poverty reduction and ...
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/conserving-carbon-and-gender-relations-gender-perspectives-on-redd-and-global-climate-policy
  
• Focali-SIANI policy brief on the key to successful partnerships with forest communities
  Focali, Focaliresearcher, Land rights, Tropical forests
  Focali member Torsten Krause has written a policy brief within Focali’s thematic collaboration with SIANI. In the policy brief “Building partnerships with ...
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/focali-siani-policy-brief-on-the-key-to-successful-partnerships-with-forest-communities
  
• EFI report: Forest biomass, carbon neutrality and climate change mitigation
  Focaliresearcher
  Focali member Göran Berndes, Associate Professor Chalmers, is the lead author of a newly published European Forest Institute report that provides insights into ...
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/european-forest-institute-report-forest-biomass-carbon-neutrality-and-climate-change-mitigation
  
• New PLOS collection: Measuring forest conservation effectiveness
  Conservation, Focaliresearcher, REDD, Tropical forests
  Scholars and practitioners have repeatedly called for more and better impact evaluation of conservation policies. This new PLOS collection of articles ...
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/new-plos-collection-measuring-forest-conservation-effectiveness
  
• Methods for the quantification of emissions at the landscape level for developing countries in smallholder contexts
  Agriculture, Focaliresearcher, Landscapes, Methodologies
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/methods-for-the-quantification-of-emissions-at-the-landscape-level-for-developing-countries-in-smallholder-contexts
  
• Brazilian Agriculture and Environmental Legislation: Status and Future Challenges
  Agriculture, Focaliresearcher, Land-use
  Focali researcher Göran Berndes is co-author to this article published in Environmental Science & Technology, 2010, 44 (16), pp 6046–6053
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/brazilian-agriculture-and-environmental-legislation-status-and-future-challenges
  
• How much land is needed for global food production under scenarios of dietary changes and livestock productivity increases in 2030?
  Agriculture, Biodiversity, Focaliresearcher, Land-use
  Focali researcher Göran Berndes has, together with the main author Stefan Wirsenius and Christian Azar, written this article which has been published in ...
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/how-much-land-is-needed-for-global-food-production-under-scenarios-of-dietary-changes-and-livestock-productivity-increases-in-2030
  
• Barriers to plantation activities in different agro-ecological zones of Southern India
  Agriculture, CDM, Carbon sequestration, Focaliresearcher
  The Focali researchers Matilda Palm and Madelene Ostwald have written an article for Regional Environmental Change. The article provides an analysis of ...
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/barriers-to-plantation-activities-in-different-agro-ecological-zones-of-southern-india
  
• Energizing agroforestry: Ilex guayusa as an additional commodity to diversify Amazonian agroforestry systems
  Agroforestry, Focaliresearcher, Forests, Land-use
  Focali member Torsten Krause and colleague Barry Ness has just published a paper on agroforestry and the crop guayusa (Ilex guayusa) in the Ecuadorian Amazon. ...
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/energizing-agroforestry-ilex-guayusa-as-an-additional-commodity-to-diversify-amazonian-agroforestry-systems
  
• Sustainable bioproducts in Brazil: disputes and agreements on a common ground agenda for agriculture and nature protection
  Bioenergy, Focaliresearcher
  New article co-authored by Focali member Göran Berndes published in Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining, 18 March 2016. The work contributed to a three-year ...
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/sustainable-bioproducts-in-brazil-disputes-and-agreements-on-a-common-ground-agenda-for-agriculture-and-nature-protection
  
• 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
  
• Quantification of carbon stock and tree diversity of homegardens in a dry zone area of Moneragala district, Sri Lanka
  Biodiversity, Focaliresearcher, Forests
  Eskil Mattson and Madelene Ostwald toghether with two Sri Lankan colleagues published in Agroforestry Systems
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/quantification-of-carbon-stock-and-tree-diversity-of-homegardens-in-a-dry-zone-area-of-moneragala-district-sri-lanka
  
• Report on the international REDD+ process in 2014
  Focaliresearcher, Global Climate Governance, Global REDD-instruments, International Institutions, Policy, REDD, REDD and Poverty
  Susanne von Walter gives an update on the REDD+ process.
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/articles/artikelarkiv/report-on-the-international-redd-process-in-2014
  
• Water, Forests and People
  Focaliresearcher, Forests, Landscapes, Policy, Water
  The Swedish Water House cluster group Water and Forests´ work on how and why Sweden should build resilient landscapes are now published in a report and policy ...
  http://focali.se.zope.sizeit.se/en/news/water-forests-and-people
  
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