Climate Sensitivity of Tropical Trees Along an Elevation Gradient in Rwanda

New study from Rwandan researchers together with Focaliresearchers Johan Uddling and Göran Wallin on climate sensitivity of tropical trees along an elevation gradient in Rwanda. The study finds that gas exchange strongly decrease at lower sites in the dry season, which indicates that primary production as well as transpiration would decline in a climate with more pronounced dry periods.

Gender equity: A snail pace progress and how to change that

Read the blog, published in Impakter on September 18th 2018, about what policy makers need to know about gender and sustainability. The blog is based on the work of Focalimember Andrea Nightingale on ecofeminism and feminist political ecology, and written by Linda Hansson and Ekaterina Bessonova in a Focali-SIANI collaboration.

Lic. defence: Rural Livelihood Options for “a better and more sustainable future” - Local perspectives from Myanmar and Morocco

Licentiate defence
Jan 10, 2019 01:15 PM to Jan 10, 2019 03:00 PM.

The 10th of January Focali member Laura Kmoch will defend her licentiate thesis with the title above. It is a public defence that will be held 13.15 in room ED lecture hall at Chalmers University of Technology. The invited discussant for the defence is Ole Mertz, who is Professor of Human Geography and Head of Section for Geography at the University of Copenhagen.

Focali at Global Landscapes Forum 2018: Connecting for impact – From commitment to action

Dec 01, 2018

Focali is together with our partners SIANI participating in the Global Landscapes Forum 2018 (GLF) in Bonn. We have a booth in the Landscape Action Pavilion where we share Focali members research and hope to engage in interesting and inspiring meetings. The Focali and SIANI team will report back on some of key issues discussed at Global Landscape Forum via our homepages and social media.

Vast areas in the Brazilian Amazon may lose its protection new study finds

Contestation over the use of land and forest areas in the Amazon have a long history, is heavily influenced by global consumption demands and as often the devil is in the details and paragraphs. A new study published in Nature Sustainability shows that up to fifteen million hectares of land might lose its current protection due to a paragraph in the Brazilian Forest Act, the most important legal framework for nature conservation on privately owned land in Brazil.

1st Dialogue meeting on the future of the Brazilian Amazon - potential implications of the new political landscape?

Seminar
Dec 05, 2018 09:30 AM to Dec 05, 2018 01:00 PM.

Welcome to this first meeting in a series of dialogue seminars initiated by Focali at GMV in collaboration with SIANI, GGBC, GAC, LUCSUS and other partners interested to join this initiative with a focus on global tropical deforestation. We start with a focus on the Brazilian Amazon due to the risk of the environmental crisis that may unfold with local, regional and global implications. In 2019 the initiative will look at other regions as well in terms of drivers of deforestation, environmental and human implications and possible ways forward.

New report from the Agroforestry Network: Achieving the Global Goals through Agroforestry

Agroforestry is a sustainable, proven and efficient land management system, according to the experts behind the report Achieving the Global Goals through Agroforestry, launched on October 1, 2018 in Stockholm, Sweden.

Focali brief: Looking for gender equality in REDD+

The consideration of gender issues and women’s rights in REDD+ policy formulation and implementation can be seen as a moral imperative, but it is also based in legal texts and institutional commitments. This new Focali brief, written by Lisa Westholm, provides an overview of the work with gender issues in REDD+ policy making to date, and brings up some key issues relating to gender equality in the design and implementation of REDD+ programs.