Publications

Food security and nutrition: The role of forests

Authors: Sunderland, T.C.H.; Powell, B.; Ickowitz, A.; Foli, S.; Pinedo-Vasquez, M.; Nasi, R.; Padoch, C.

Publication Year : 2013

With a growing global population, much of the current discourse on food security is focussed on increasing and expanding agricultural

Quantifying the economic contribution of wild food harvests to rural livelihoods: A global-comparative analysis

Authors: Hickey, G.; Pouliot, M.; Smith-Hall, C.; Wunder, S.; Nielsen, M.R.

Publication Year : 2016

This paper empirically quantifies and analyses (i) the economic contribution of wild foods to rural households, (ii) the household socio-economic,

The contribution of forests and trees to sustainable diets

Authors: Vinceti, B.; Termote, C.; Ickowitz, A.; Powell, B.; Kehlenbeck, K.; Hunter, D.

Publication Year : 2013

With the growing demands from a population expected to reach 9 billion people by 2050, it is unclear how our

Drivers of Forests and Tree-based Systems for Food Security and Nutrition

Authors: Kleinschmit, D.; Sijapati Basnett, B.; Martin, A.; Rai, N.D.; Smith-Hall, C.; Dawson, N.M.; Hickey, G.; Neufeldt, H.; Ojha, H.R.; Walelign, S.Z.

Publication Year : 2015

In the context of this chapter, drivers are considered to be natural or anthropogenic developments affecting forests and tree-based systems

Drivers of Forests and Tree-based Systems for Food Security and Nutrition

Authors: Kleinschmit, D.; Sijapati Basnett, B.; Martin, A.; Rai, N.D.; Smith-Hall, C.; Dawson, N.M.; Hickey, G.; Neufeldt, H.; Ojha, H.R.; Walelign, S.Z.

Publication Year : 2015

In the context of this chapter, drivers are considered to be natural or anthropogenic developments affecting forests and tree-based systems

Dynamics of Ecosystem Services during Forest Transitions in Reventazón, Costa Rica

Authors: Vallet, A.; Locatelli, B.; Levrel, H.; Brenes Pérez, C.; Imbach, P.; Estrada Carmona, N.; Manlay, R.; Oszwald, J.

Publication Year : 2016

The forest transition framework describes the temporal changes of forest areas with economic development. A first phase of forest contraction

Who counts? demography of Swidden cultivators in Southeast Asia

Authors: Mertz, O.; Leisz, S. J.; Heinimann, A.; Rerkasem, K.; Thiha; Dressler, W.; Pham, V.C.; Vu, K.C.; Schmidt-Vogt, D.; Colfer C. J. P.; Epprecht, M.; Padoch, C.; Potter, L.

Publication Year : 2009

Swidden cultivators are often found as a distinct category of farmers in the literature, but rarely appear in population censuses

A landscape mosaics approach for characterizing swidden systems from a REDD+ perspective

Authors: Hett, C.; Castella, J.C.; Heinimann, A.; Messerli, P.; Pfund, J.L.

Publication Year : 2011

Swidden agriculture is often deemed responsible for deforestation and forest degradation in tropical regions, yet swidden landscapes are commonly not

Development of allometric models for above and belowground biomass in swidden cultivation fallows of Northern Laos

Authors: McNicol, I.M.; Berry, N.J.; Bruun, T.B.; Hergoualc';h, K.; Mertz, O.; de Neergaard, A.; Ryan, C.M.

Publication Year : 2015

Shifting, or swidden, cultivation remains an important land use across Southeast Asia and other parts of the tropics, albeit under

Trends, drivers and impacts of changes in swidden cultivation in tropical forest-agriculture frontiers: a global assessment

Authors: Van Vliet, N.; Mertz, O.; Heinimann, A.; Langanke, T.; Pascual, U.; Schmook, B.; Adams, C.; Schmidt-Vogt, D.; Messerli, P.; Leisz, S. J.; Castella, J.C.; Jørgensen, L.; Birch-Thomsen, T.; Hett, C.; Bech-Bruun, T.; Ickowitz, A.; Vu, K.C.; Yasuyuki, K.; Fox, J.; Padoch, C.; Dressler, W.; Ziegler, A.D.

Publication Year : 2012

This meta-analysis of land-cover transformations of the past 1015 years in tropical forest-agriculture frontiers world-wide shows that swidden agriculture decreases

Swidden Transformations and Rural Livelihoods in Southeast Asia

Authors: Cramb, R.; Colfer C. J. P.; Dressler, W.; Laungaramsri, P.; Le, Q.T.; Mulyoutami, E.; Peluso, N.L.; Wadley, R.L.

Publication Year : 2009

This paper explores the major interactions between the transformation of swidden farming and the pursuit of rural livelihoods in the

CIFOR at 2016 IUFRO Regional Congress for Asia and Oceania

Forests for Sustainable Development: The Role of Research

Food security and nutrition: The role of forests

Quantifying the economic contribution of wild food harvests to rural livelihoods: A global-comparative analysis

The contribution of forests and trees to sustainable diets

Drivers of Forests and Tree-based Systems for Food Security and Nutrition

Drivers of Forests and Tree-based Systems for Food Security and Nutrition

Dynamics of Ecosystem Services during Forest Transitions in Reventazón, Costa Rica

Who counts? demography of Swidden cultivators in Southeast Asia

A landscape mosaics approach for characterizing swidden systems from a REDD+ perspective

Development of allometric models for above and belowground biomass in swidden cultivation fallows of Northern Laos

Trends, drivers and impacts of changes in swidden cultivation in tropical forest-agriculture frontiers: a global assessment

Swidden Transformations and Rural Livelihoods in Southeast Asia