Join Prof Terry Sunderland on 23rd Feb at the webinar on ‘Innovative applications of rattans and the economic potential of the rattan sector’
Prof. Terry Sunderland, Lorenzo Pradella and Dr. Krisdianto Sugiyanto will be speaking at a webinar on 23rd Feb 2020 and examine the innovative applications of rattan and its economic potential. Rattans are spiny, climbing palms (Arecaceae) whose long, flexible stems provide the canes of commerce which have unique properties such as strength, lightness, durability, appearance […]
Sunderland Lab member Alida O’Connor featured on a new podcast episode on COLANDS initiative
CIFOR has just launched a new podcast in #LetsTalkTrees series featuring our lab member Alida O’Connor and colleagues. Through integrated landscapes approaches, we are attempting to bridge differences between actors with various interests and goals in Zambia’s Kalomo district. This episode features three PhD students working with CIFOR’s COLANDS initiative. Please click here to listen […]
New targets to protect biodiversity must include farmers and agriculture: new article co-authored by Terry Sunderland
The UN Convention on Biological Diversity is a treaty that aims to develop national strategies for the conservation and sustainable use of a country’s natural resources, or biological diversity. This is a general strategy that all countries must then adopt at the local level. The Convention – a legally-binding international treaty – is currently negotiating new targets for the […]
Guest Lecture Series 2021: Emily Gibson speaks on food and nutrition security in fishing communities, Indonesia
Emily Gibson joined us on Monday, 1st Feb to present her work on “A gendered analysis of small-scale fisheries and food and nutrition security in specialised fishing communities, Komodo District, eastern Indonesia”. Emily has just completed her PhD from Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University. Her research explores the intersection of gender […]
Learning from doing: Implementing landscape-scale interventions in the tropics- New article by Alida O’Connor and Terry Sunderland
Sunderland lab member Alida O’Connor and Terry Sunderland authored a new article on ‘Branchline’ on ‘Learning from doing: Implementing landscape-scale interventions in the tropics’. It highlights the COLANDS initiative that aims to operationalize landscape approaches in three tropical landscapes in Zambia, Ghana and Indonesia. To read the full article, please see here.
Sunderland lab Guest Lecture Series 2021: Ronju Ahammad speaks about forest and livelihood relationships of rural communities in Bangladesh
We are excited to announce ‘Sunderland Lab Guest Lecture Series 2021’ that is primarily to meet diverse researchers and practitioners across the world, and to learn about their ongoing research and issues related to food, livelihood and biodiversity conservation. This is currently open to Sunderland lab members but the presentation and recording of the talks […]
New Mongabay article featuring Joli Rumi Borah’s research on shifting cultivation in Northeast India
Secondary forests are gaining importance in the tropics as pristine forests are cleared. And it is vital to understand the impacts of changing patterns of shifting cultivation on carbon storage. The dynamic nature of shifting cultivation, an agricultural system practiced for centuries, results in a landscape mosaic of jhum fields, secondary forests, and old-growth forests. […]
Terry Sunderland and team featured on UBC Forestry News
Terry Sunderland and the team were featured on UBC Forestry News recently for their contribution on the international collaborative book Operationalizing landscape approaches in the tropics, recently launched at the international Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) Biodiversity Digital Conference. Upwards of 600 researchers from around the world attended the GLF Oct. 29, 2020 event that addressed everything […]
Diling Liang updates on Tree Inventory project at UBC farm
Diling Liang, a masters student at Sunderland lab, gave an update on the Tree inventory project at UBC Farm 2021 Research Planning Session on Friday November 20th. Under this project, Sunderland lab is measuring and tagging all trees at the UBC farm forest. Diling’s talk highlighted the progress so far, preliminary results from the 2000 […]
COLANDS team at Global Landscape Forum Biodiversity Digital Conference
Collaborating to operationalize landscape approaches for nature, development and sustainability (COLANDS) team hosted a session at the recent GLF Biodiversity Digital Conference: One World – One Health (Oct 28 – 29, 2020). The session was presented by eight speakers and was attended by more than 700 people. Speakers shared their experiences of conceptualizing, designing and implementing landscape […]