Editorial board

Editor

Hubert de Foresta
Email: [email protected]
Ecologist and botanist by training, Hubert de Foresta is a freshly retired Senior Scientist from the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD). His research mostly focused on the management and biodiversity potential of domestic forests, at the interface between forestry and agriculture, mainly in the Humid Tropics where he was based for twenty years (French Guyana, Congo and Indonesia). Coordinator of the FAO study on the 2010-2013 assessment of Trees Outside Forests (http://www.fao.org/3/a-aq071e.pdf), he currently is the scientific Editor of “Forests, Trees and Livelihoods” (http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/tftl20), and a board member of the Société Nationale de Protection de la Nature (SNPN, France).
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Associate Editor

Jinlong Liu
Dr. Jinlong Liu earned his Ph.D in Rural Development Sociology from Wageningen University. He currently is Professor, School of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, and Director, Centre for Forest, Environmental and Resources Policy, Renming University of China. In his about 30 years academic career, he has been studying the issues of agroforestry, participatory forest management, forest transition and governance, traditional forest related knowledge in China, as well as in various countries from East Asia, Southeast Asia and South Asia. He currently leads a research programme on forest transition, natural resource governance, traditional forest-related knowledge in China. He is Deputy Coordinator of IUFRO Forest Policy and Economic Division (Division 9), and member of Task Force of Indigenous and Local Knowledge of the International Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services.

Editorial Board

Arild Angelsen
Arild Angelsen is a professor of environment and development economics at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), and a Senior Associate of the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) in Indonesia. His main research areas are: (i) Causes of tropical deforestation, and their interactions with poverty, tenure and government policies; (ii) Tropical forests in climate mitigation, in particular the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) initiative – from global architecture, national strategies and policies to local impacts. (iii) Environmental (forest) income and poverty, in particular related to his role as global coordinator of the Poverty Environment Network (PEN), a CIFOR-led research programme collecting detailed information from 8 000 households in 24 developing countries on forest uses and management; (iv) Field experiments to study human behaviour and the impact of policy interventions for sustainable resource use. https://scholar.google.no/citations?user=jR4wFuoAAAAJ&hl=en

Seema Arora Jonsson
Seema Arora-Jonsson is Professor in Rural Development at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. She works on questions of environmental governance, rural democracy and citizenship as well as the role of development and natural resource bureaucracies in such questions. Issues of research approach - a) the doing of the research - participatory research, ethics and b) analytically – analyzing environmental questions in a North-South perspective in the globalizing context of environmental governance as well as questions of gender, race, ethnicity, class and geography are central to her work.
https://scholar.google.fr/citations?user=NtSgQhcAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

Bimbika Sijapati Basnett
Bimbika Sijapati Basnett is a gender and development researcher and practitioner. She worked at the Center for International Forestry Researcher as a social scientist and researcher between 2013 and 2019. For the past three and a half years, she has been heading the gender, disability and social inclusion portofolio at the Australia Indonesia partnership for economic development. Bimbika holds a PhD in development studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science and has published on issues pertaining to women’s participation in forest management efforts as well as gender differentiated effects of a variety of pressures on forested landscapes.https://scholar.google.fr/citations?user=qnf1jeAAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

Carol J. Pierce Colfer
Carol J. Pierce Colfer is a cultural anthropologist (PhD, University of Washington, Seattle), serving as a Senior Associate at the Center for International Forestry Research and a Visiting Scholar in Cornell University’s Southeast Asia Program. She also has a Masters in Public Health from the University of Hawaii. She has conducted ethnographic research in Iran, Oman, the United States and Indonesia; and she has coordinated comparative international research in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Her interests have ranged from childbirth and family planning to more forest-relevant topics like criteria and indicators for sustainable forest management, health in forests, devolution/decentralization, landscape management, and adaptive collaborative management of forests. Her recent interests have focused on longitudinal assessments of adaptive collaborative management projects in the tropics, many from the early 2000’s; her current foci also include human elements of forest restoration and improving her qualitative writing skills in an unusual memoir.
https://scholar.google.fr/citations?user=Q2yoGtEAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

Monica Di Gregorio
Monica Di Gregorio is an environmental social scientist and a Lecturer in Environmental Politics and Governance at the Sustainability Research Institute of the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds. Her research examines contentious environmental politics and development and is centered on land use and climate change politics and policy, and natural resource governance more broadly. Much of her work relates to the agricultural-forest interface in developing countries, policy processes on reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) and synergies between climate change mitigation and adaptation in the land use sector. She is a Senior Associate of the Center for International Forestry Research and an Associate at the Centre the Climate Change Economics and Policy and at the Priestley International Centre for Climate. She has a regional interest Southeast Asia and has research expertise in Indonesia and Brazil.
Website: http://www.see.leeds.ac.uk/people/m.digregorio
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=GeWZuM8AAAAJ&hl=en

Wolfram Dressler
Wolfram Dressler is an Associate Professor at the School of Geography, University of Melbourne. His long standing interests are in the political ecologies of conservation and development in insular and mainland Southeast Asia. As a scholar-activist, his current research examines indigenous livelihood struggles and social movements at the conjuncture of environmental governance, resource extraction, and agrarian political economies in the Philippine and Indonesian frontier. His long-term ethnographic research is on the island of Palawan, the Philippines (1999-present) and east Kalimantan, Indonesia (2014-2017). From 2011-2014, he worked at the Forest and Nature Conservation Policy Group (FNP), Wageningen University, the Netherlands. In 2014, he started as an ARC Future Fellow at the School of Geography, University of Melbourne, Australia. He lives in the beautiful city of Melbourne, Australia. He serves on the International Advisory Board of the Journal of Peasant Studies and the Advisory Editorial Board of the Journal of Political Ecology.
https://scholar.google.fr/citations?user=CEet1T0AAAAJ&hl=en

Marlene Elias
Marlène Elias is a Senior Scientist at the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT and Gender Research Coordinator for the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry. She leads gender research and gender integration in the Alliance’s research and practice, with emphasis on strengthening the capacities of staff to conduct participatory, gender-responsive research that will challenge inequitable norms and deliver positive and equitable benefits to women and men across food systems. Marlène has a BSc in Biology and Environmental Sciences, and an MA and PhD in Geography. Rooted in a feminist political ecology approach, her research focuses on gendered dimensions of forest management and restoration, local ecological knowledge(s), and forest/agri-food value chains, predominantly in West Africa and South and Central Asia. Before joining Bioversity International, Marlène conducted research on gender, forest-based livelihoods, and tree resource management in Latin America and Africa. Among other positions, she has worked in UNESCO’s Division for Gender Equality and as a Fellow in the Department of Anthropology of Université Laval in Canada. She is the founder of the NGO Association Burkina Canada that facilitates education to underprivileged girls and boys in Burkina Faso. Marlène is based in Rome, Italy.
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Shengzuo Fang
Dr. Shengzuo Fang is Professor of Silviculture at the College of Forestry, Nanjing Forestry University, China. He is also Director of the Science and Technology Department of Nanjing Forestry University. Educated in China, he was trained at the Forest Research Institute of New Zealand on Sustainable Forestry Management for one year and at the University of Toronto on the CIDA project of Enhancing Carbon Sequestration Capacity of China. Dr. Fang has some research experiences both in China and oversea countries. Dr. Fang's research has been focused on (1) effects of silvicultural regimes on the biomass production and wood quality; (2) long-term productivity maintenance of the plantations for fast-growing trees; (3) introduction, breeding and silvicuture of bio-energy and woody-medicinal plant resources; 4) agroforestry system.

Steve Franzel
Since retiring from the World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF) in 2019, Steve has been consulting in the areas of youth entrepreneurship and extension and advisory services. An agricultural economist by training, Steve’s main areas of research during his 27 years with ICRAF included smallholder farming and agroforestry systems, extension and advisory services, adoption of innovations, marketing and participatory research. His previous positions were with the World Bank and the Institute of Agricultural Research in Ethiopia, the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT) in Kenya, and the US Peace Corps in Cameroon. Steve holds a PhD in agricultural economics from Michigan State University, USA, and resides in Orlando, Florida.
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=3bByl-gAAAAJ&hl=en

Didier Genin
Didier Genin is a Research Scientist at the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), in charge of the USAGES group (UtiliSation, Appropriation et Gestion des EcosystèmeS) at the Laboratoire Population, Environnement, Développement (LPED) in partnership with Aix-Marseille University (UMR151), France. Ecologist and pastoralist, he is interested in the practices of use and management of natural resources (particularly those from rangelands and woodlands), both in terms of 1) analysis of technical facts, 2) their impacts on ecosystem dynamics, and 3) the meanings that these practices take in the functioning of local societies. His work is carried out in climatic contexts with strong environmental constraints (high mountains, arid zones). His scientific positioning lies at the interface between ecological and social sciences. He has been involved in a dozen collaborative interdisciplinary research projects, both in Latin America (Mexico, Bolivia) and in North Africa (Tunisia, Morocco), where he resided for several years. He is currently initiating a resident research program on rural forests functioning and sustainable landscapes in Madagascar.
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J. Coosje Hoogendoorn
Coosje Hoogendoorn has worked for more than 30 years in international research for rural development. In addition to agrobiodiversity and seed systems, her expertise includes non-timber forest product value chains, climate smart forestry and south-south collaboration. Coosje has been based in the UK, the Netherlands, Italy (as Deputy Director General Programmes at CGIAR’S International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI; now CIAT-Bioversity Alliance)) and, as Director General of the International Network for Bamboo and Rattan (INBAR), in China. Since 2014 she is a senior advisor at the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Wil de Jong
De Jong studied tropical forestry at Wageningen Agricultural University, the Netherlands. He moved to Peru in 1982 to explore the role of tropical forests in people’s lives and societies. He worked for the New York Botanical Garden’s Institute of Economic Botany between 1985 and 1995. In 1992 he relocated to Indonesia, and since 1995 he began working for the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR).In 2004 he moved to Japan to the National Museum of Ethnology and to Kyoto University. He is now adjunct professor at the Renmin University of China and emeritus professor at Kyoto University. His research focuses on Bolivia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Peru and Vietnam, but also includes multi country comparative studies, and on topics like tropical forest governance and forest policies, smallholder and community forestry, forest transition and forest restoration. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses at various universities in Asia and supervises Ph.D. students. His over 140 peer reviewed publications include peer reviewed journal articles, edited special issues of academic journals and monographs and edited book volumes.
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Pia Katila
Pia Katila is a Senior Scientist at Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke). She has a master’s degree in Land Use Economics and doctorate in Forestry focusing on community and smallholder rights to forests. She is the coordinator and editor in chief of the International Union of Forest Research Organization’s Special Project World Forests, Society and Environment (IUFRO WFSE), a global, independent network of scientists and experts from universities and research and development organizations from different parts of the world ( https://www.iufro.org/science/special/wfse/)
Her main research interests are forest and environmental policy, institutions, governance and community and smallholder forestry.

Anne Larson
Anne Larson is a Principal Scientist and Team Leader for Governance, Equity and Wellbeing at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)-World Agroforestry (ICRAF), currently based in Washington, DC, USA. She obtained her PhD in 2001 from U.C. Berkeley in Wildland Resource Science, with an emphasis on resource policy and institutions. Her current research priorities include opportunities for and challenges to indigenous and local community land resource tenure rights; social inclusion in climate change initiatives; equity in multi-stakeholder processes and in land investment; and gender transformative approaches. She currently coordinates fieldwork in a dozen countries across Asia, Africa and Latin America. Anne is on the board of the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) and a governance advisor to the Council of the International Land Coalition (ILC). She has done both more traditional and action research, as well as supporting innovative initiatives such as the design of a diploma course for indigenous communities and leaders.
https://scholar.google.fr/citations?user=h7rzg18AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

Guillaume Lescuyer
Guillaume Lescuyer studied economics at the universities of Nanterre and Dauphine in Paris before doing his PhD at the School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS) on the economic value of tropical forest in Cameroon. He was then hired by the University of Wageningen to join the Tropenbos Cameroon Programme in Kribi, Cameroon from 1998 to 2001. In July 2001, he was recruited by CIRAD and worked in Montpellier for 5 years. In 2006 he returned to Yaoundé, Cameroon, as a seconded scientist in the CIFOR Governance programme. From 2014 to 2018, he moved to Bogor, Indonesia, still as a CIFOR seconded scientist, and joined the Value Chains, Finance and Investment team. He is now back in Montpellier, France, as a CIRAD senior scientist and a CIFOR associate. He works on the topics of decentralized management of forest resources, particularly in the countries of the Congo Basin and in Southeast Asia.
He works on the topics of decentralized management of forest resources, particularly in the countries of the Congo Basin and in Southeast Asia.His list of publications is available at: http://publications.cirad.fr/auteur.php?mat=1595He is also registered on Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=HSYwNM0AAAAJ&hl=fr

Patrice Levang
After 30 years of research in Indonesia and 4 years in Cameroon, Patrice Levang recently retired from IRD (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, France). Since 1999 he is seconded scientist to CIFOR (Centre for International Forestry Research) in Bogor (Indonesia) first, then in Yaoundé (Cameroon) and since 2014 in Montpellier. Agro-economist by training, his research has mainly been focusing on the agricultural colonization –organized and spontaneous- of forest areas and its impact on forest people in Indonesia and the Congo Basin.
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Moira Moeliono
Moira Moeliono has a graduate degree (PhD) in social geography from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She has worked at CIFOR since 2001 based at the headquarters in Bogor and is currently senior associate. Her main interests are governance in the ongoing social forestry and decentralization processes, with special attention to adaptive collaborative management, social and community based forestry and rights based issues. Since 2010, she also became involved in research on climate change issues through the Global Comparative Study on REDD+, continuing until the present, and the ASEAN-Swiss partnership on social forestry and climate change.
https://scholar.google.fr/citations?user=z11-KfEAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

Benno Pokorny
Benno Pokorny holds a doctoral degree from the Faculty of Forest Sciences at the University of Freiburg in Germany. He worked as a postgraduate lecturer for socio-economy at the Federal University of Rural Amazon (UFRA) in Brazil, and was Senior Associated Researcher of the Centre of International Forestry Research (CIFOR). Since 2003, he is professor for Forest Management and Rural Development at the Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Freiburg. He has been on leave since 2021 to work for GIZ in Brazil, coordinating their activities in the area of bioeconomy. Since more than 25 years, he has been studying rural development contexts in the tropics and subtropics in Latin-America, Asia and Africa. His specific research interest is in the promotion of local resource users as motor of a sustainable local development. He has coordinated several inter- and transdisciplinary international research and development projects on local development, regularly advises governmental and non-governmental organisations, and has published extensively on the subject in English, Spanish and Portuguese.Homepage: https://www.waldbau.uni-freiburg.de/mitarbeiter-en/Mitarbeiter_sammlung_en/pokorny-en?set_language=en
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=R-hOWZEAAAAJ&hl=de&oi=ao

Noemi Miyasaka Porro
Noemi Miyasaka Porro: Since 1986, I have worked along with grassroots organizations, as an agricultural engineer, in the Brazilian Amazon. During my interdisciplinary master program in Tropical Conservation and Development and doctorate in Social Anthropology at the University of Florida, I carried out research on gender and social resistance in traditional communities in the Amazonian State of Maranhão, Brazil. Beginning in 2008, I joined the Federal University of Pará and am currently an associate professor serving as the vice-director of the Amazonian Institute of Family Agricultures. My research-action interests include traditional knowledge related to Community Forest Management, agrarian and environmental rights, gender and generation social relations.

Charlie Shackleton
Charlie is a full-time research professor in the department of Environmental Science at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa, where he has been since mid-2000. He occupies a nationally funded research chair in “Interdisciplinary Science in Land and Natural Resource Use for Sustainable Livelihoods”. Charlie’s core research interests relate to (1) non-timber forest products ecology, use and management, (2) rural livelihoods, (3) multi-functional landscapes and (4) urban forestry greening.
https://scholar.google.fr/citations?user=MbGJX1gAAAAJ&hl=en

Terry Sunderland
Terry Sunderland is currently a Professor at the Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia, Canada, focusing on the biological and human dimensions of the sustainable management and utilization of tropical forests. He was previously a Senior/Principal Scientist at the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Indonesia, where he coordinated CIFOR’s work on forests and food security, biodiversity conservation and integrated landscape management. Prior to joining CIFOR in early 2006, Terry was based in West Africa for over fifteen years and worked on numerous conservation and livelihood-focused initiatives. Having both a field practitioner and academic background gives him a wide perspective on conservation, livelihoods and issues related to sustainable landscape management. Terry has a Masters degree in Forestry from the University of Oxford and a PhD from the University of London. He has published more than 240 research papers, book chapters and edited books and supervised many graduate studies related to tropical forestry, particularly focusing on developing country scientists. Terry is an active blogger, Twitter user and engages regularly with the media on disseminating research for policy influence and outreach.
https://scholar.google.fr/citations?user=1etd8J8AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

Eva Lini Wollenberg
Lini Wollenberg is a Research Professor at the Gund Institute for Environment and Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Vermont and Associate Scientist at the CGIAR’s Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT. She specializes in climate change and food systems sustainability and delivering development outcomes for smallholder farmers. Her interests include low-emissions development, livestock sustainability transitions, alternative proteins, measurement and monitoring of greenhouse gas emissions, and sustainable finance. Lini was previously the Leader of the CGIAR’s CCAFS Low-Emission Development Flagship (2009-2021), Director of the Center for Sustainable Agriculture at the University of Vermont (2007-2009); Principle Scientist at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) (1994-2005); and Program Officer for Asia’s Rural Poverty and Resources Program at the Ford Foundation (1991-1994).
https://ccafs.cgiar.org/flagships/low-emissions-development
https://www.uvm.edu/rsenr/profiles/eva_wollenberg_lini