New Article on ‘Is it possible to feed the growing population without destroying forests?’ by Nur Bahar and Terry Sunderland
Nur Bahar and Terry Sunderland illustrate why it is important to challenge the narrative of ‘food production-at-all-cost’ at the expense of our forests. The dual narratives of doubling world food production by 2050 and a focus on production alone have dominated the discourse on global food security for the past 70 years and strongly influence decision […]
Sam was featured in Forbes for his research on Sacred Forest Groves
“Adeyanju, a PhD Student and Four Year Doctoral Fellowship (4YF) award recipient at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, says the Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove, one of the three investigated, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site with numerous plant species and habitat for wildlife species with a high risk of extinction including the endangered white-throated monkey […]
Terry Sunderland spoke to ‘The Runner’ on COP 26, 2021
What needs to happen is to follow through on those commitments. All of us on an individual, community, national, and global level. Those commitments need to be respected. There is hope. This is front-page news, this is a very timely storm. We had the heat dome, a tornado last week, now we’ve got this […]
Side Event on “Project to Process: Pitfalls and Potential of Implementing Long-term Integrated Landscape Approaches” at Frontiers of Change, Global Landscapes Forum
Samuel Adeyanju and Terry Sunderland presented at the Global Landscapes Forum in a side event in Glasgow, UK on November 6th, 2021. Watch the full recording here.
New Blog ‘Balancing livelihoods, conservation and biodiversity through landscape approaches evaluated at GLF Climate’ in CIFOR Forest News
“Early research results are in from applying Integrated Landscape Approaches (ILA) – bringing together stakeholders with varied and often conflicting concerns in a shared landscape — in three countries: Ghana, Indonesia and Zambia. The COLANDS findings can offer lessons for implementing ILAs at large scale, but key to success is recognizing that solutions are complex […]
Terry Sunderland spoke to CTV Vancouver about the upcoming 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference
Watch Terry Sunderland’s interview with CTV Vancouver about the upcoming 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference and the need for better strategies to maintain the biodiversity of forests here.
New article by Joli Rumi Borah and James Reed on ‘Balancing trade-offs between biodiversity conservation and livelihoods’
Biodiversity is essential for safeguarding food security, ecosystem function, and human well-being. A collaborative study by the Collaborating to Operationalise Landscape Approaches for Nature, Development and Sustainability (COLANDS) team highlights the need for incorporating the ecological dimension in integrated landscape approaches. India aims to better integrate biodiversity conservation and livelihood objectives through the Biodiversity […]
Samuel Adeyanju contributed a chapter on ‘Global Higher Education During COVID-19: Policy, Society, and Technology’
Samuel Adeyanju recently contributed a chapter on a book titled ‘Global Higher Education During COVID-19: Policy, Society, and Technology‘. The book explores the impacts of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) for global mobility in the field of international higher education. Specifically, this book responds to the growing need for new insights and perspectives to improve higher […]
Alida and Diling won the Mary and David Macaree Fellowship 2022
Congratulations to Alida O’ Connor and Diling Liang for winning the Mary and David Macaree Fellowship for 2022. Diling also won the Hamish Kimmins Scholarship in Forest Ecosystems. Well done both!
New paper from Sunderland lab on Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) in Ghana and Zambia
A new paper led by Samuel Adeyanju and Alida O’Connor titled ‘Learning from Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) in Ghana and Zambia: Lessons for integrated landscape approaches’ has been recently published on ‘International Forestry Review’. The paper discusses the positive characteristics and persistent challenges arising from CBNRM initiatives in both countries. The full paper is […]