A5007580387- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Organic Food and Agriculture
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Land Rights and Reforms
- Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Plant and animal studies
- Bioeconomy and Sustainability Development
- Agricultural Systems and Practices
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Seed and Plant Biochemistry
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Photovoltaic Systems and Sustainability
- Environmental Conservation and Management
- Environmental, Ecological, and Cultural Studies
CGIAR
2023-2024
Agropolis International
2016-2024
Institut Agro Montpellier
2020-2024
Wageningen University & Research
2018-2022
Digital Research Alliance of Canada
2022
University of Amsterdam
2022
Alliance Bioversity International - CIAT
2019-2020
Centro Agronomico Tropical de Investigacion y Ensenanza Catie
2011-2019
University of Idaho
2013-2016
The cascading effects of biodiversity decline on human well-being present a pressing challenge for sustainable development. Conservation efforts often prioritize safeguarding specific species, habitats, or intact ecosystems but overlook biodiversity's fundamental role in providing Nature's Contributions to People (NCP) human-modified landscapes. Here, we systematically review 154 peer-reviewed studies estimate the minimum levels (semi-)natural habitat quantity, quality, and spatial...
Approaches to integrated landscape management are currently garnering new interest as scientists, policymakers, and local stakeholders recognize the need increase multi-functionality of agricultural landscapes for food production, livelihood improvement, ecosystem conservation. Such approaches have been attempted in many parts Latin America Caribbean (LAC) but date there has no systematic assessment their characteristics, outcomes, limitations. To fill this gap, we surveyed participants...
The convergence of the biodiversity and climate crises, widening wealth inequality, most recently COVID-19 pandemic underscore urgent need to mobilize change secure sustainable futures. Centres tropical are a major focus conservation efforts, delivered in predominantly site-level interventions often incorporating alternative-livelihood provision or poverty-alleviation components. Yet, on intervention is ill-equipped address disproportionate role (often distant) collapse. Further these...
Ecosystem-service production is strongly influenced by the landscape configuration of natural and human systems. Ecosystem services are not only produced consumed locally but can be transferred within among ecosystems. The time distance between producer consumer ecosystem considered lags in ecosystem-service provisioning. Incorporation heterogeneity lag effects into conservation incentives helps identify appropriate governance systems incentive mechanisms for effective management. These...
Smallholder famers in West Africa use multiple ecosystem services (ES) their day-to-day lives. The contribution that these make to human well-being (HWB), and therefore development outcomes, is not well understood. We analyse smallholder farmer perceptions of ES, disservices (ED), HWB importance around community-managed reservoirs four semi-arid landscapes Africa, using participatory mapping, focus groups face-to-face surveys. Farmers identified what nature-based benefits problems (ED) they...
Homogenisation and intensification of agricultural ecosystems are among the most important threats to biodiversity, linked declines in pollinators, soil biota ecosystem functioning. Diversification has been proposed as a way restore functioning landscapes. To manage land for multiple functions, evidence is needed effect diversification on functionally distinct taxa. We contribute closing this knowledge gap through global meta-analysis 161 peer-reviewed articles addressing abundance richness...
To leverage agriculture's potential to better benefit both people and nature, policymakers need clear messages about which farming practices positively impact biodiversity yields, when trade-offs arise. Existing reviews analyse effects of different agricultural on either or yield, without considering interactions. Here, we applied multinomial quantile regression models synthesize global evidence synergies between using 764 paired observations (from 43 studies across 18 countries) comparing...
Smallholder agriculture is an important source of livelihoods in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. In these regions the highest concentrations nutritionally vulnerable populations are found. Agricultural development needs to be nutrition-sensitive, contribute simultaneously improving household nutrition, farm productivity environmental performance. We explored windows opportunities for potential crop diversification options meeting dietary requirements, whilst concurrently economic...
Farm models have the potential to describe farming systems and livelihoods, identify trade-offs synergies, provide ex-ante assessments of agricultural technologies policies. We developed three new modules related budget, labor, human nutrition for bio-economic whole-farm model 'FarmDESIGN'. The expanded positions enterprise within farm household. illustrate model's capabilities households in two villages Northwest Vietnam, where we conducted multi-objective optimization options improving...
Sustainability agendas increasingly recognize that attaining conservation and development outcomes demands greater integration across sectors. Integrated landscape initiatives (ILIs) are a leading approach to reconciling multiple objectives. However, characterization of the diversity approaches under ILI umbrella comparative performance different types is lacking. Here, we analyze questionnaire data obtained from project proponents delimit four particular ILI: one type was dominated by...
Sustainable land management is at the heart of some most intractable challenges facing humanity in 21st century. It critical for tackling biodiversity loss, degradation, climate change and decline ecosystem services. underpins food production, livelihoods, dietary health, social equity, adaptation many other outcomes. However, interdependencies, trade-offs, time lags non-linear responses make it difficult to predict combined effects decisions . Policy also have be made context conflicting...
Ecosystem service-support tools are commonly used to guide natural resource management. Often, empirically based models preferred due low data requirements, simplicity and clarity. Yet, uncertainty produced by local context or parameter estimation remains poorly quantified documented. We assessed model of the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation – RUSLE developed mainly from US data. is most applied assess watershed-level soil loss. performed a global sensitivity analysis (GSA) on with four...
Abstract With the Convention on Biological Diversity conference (COP15), United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), and Food Systems Summit, 2021 is a pivotal year for transitioning towards sustainable food systems. Diversified farming systems are key to more production. Here we present global dataset documenting outcomes of diversified practices biodiversity yields compiled following best standards systematic review primary studies specifically designed use in meta-analysis. The...
Abstract Governments are updating national strategies to meet global goals on biodiversity, climate change and food systems proposed in the Convention Biological Diversity post-2020 framework agreed at United Nation’s Climate Change Conference (COP26) Food Systems Summit (UNFSS). This represents a unique crucial opportunity integrate accelerate system actions tackle interconnected challenges. In this context, agroecology is game-changing approach that can provide world’s growing population...
The forest transition framework describes the temporal changes of areas with economic development. A first phase contraction is followed by a second expansion once turning point reached. This does not differentiate types or ecosystem services, and forests regardless their contribution to human well-being. For several decades, deforestation in many tropical regions has degraded such as watershed regulation, while increasing provisioning services from agriculture, for example, food. Forest...
Abstract Assessing progress towards healthier people, farms and landscapes through nutrition-sensitive agriculture (NSA) requires transdisciplinary methods with robust models metrics. Farm-household could facilitate disentangling the complex agriculture-nutrition nexus, by jointly assessing performance indicators on different farm system components such as productivity, environmental performance, household nutrition, livelihoods. We, therefore, applied a farm-household model, FarmDESIGN,...
Abstract Aim Agriculture depends heavily on biodiversity, yet unsustainable management practices continue to affect a wide range of organisms and ecosystems at unprecedented levels worldwide. Addressing the global challenge biodiversity loss requires access consolidated knowledge across practices, spatial levels, taxonomic groups. Location Global Time period 1994 2022 Major taxa studied Animals, microorganisms, plants. Methods We conducted comprehensive literature review synthesising data...
To reorient food systems to ensure they deliver healthy diets that protect against multiple forms of malnutrition and diet-related disease safeguard the environment, ecosystems, natural resources, there is a need for better governance accountability. However, decision-makers are often in dark on how navigate their achieve these outcomes. Even where sufficient data describe various elements, drivers, outcomes systems, lack tools assess performing. This paper presents diagnostic methodology 39...