Highlights•Agroforestry farms and landscapes are a important part of Africa's rural
landscapes.•Trees on farm and in the landscape provide income and environmental …

Global economic change and policy interventions are driving transitions from long-fallow
swidden (LFS) systems to alternative land uses in Southeast Asia's uplands. This study …

Mosaic landscapes under shifting cultivation, with their dynamic mix of managed and natural
land covers, often fall through the cracks in remote sensing–based land cover and land use …

Tropical rainforests store enormous amounts of carbon, the protection of which represents a
vital component of efforts to mitigate global climate change. Currently, tropical forest …

Data gathered through community-based forest monitoring (CBFM) programs may be as
accurate as those gathered by professional scientists, but acquired at a much lower cost and …

Abstract The 2010 Nagoya Protocol under the Convention on Biological Diversity and recent
changes in the policies of major international conservation organizations highlight current …

Highlights•Land system science plays a key role in the food security challenge.•Land
availability and intensification potential require a nuanced assessment.•The role of land …

While mainstream academic literature over the past ten years has tended to identify
commercial and industrialized agriculture as the primary driver of deforestation, national …

Despite sustained declines in Amazon deforestation, forest degradation from logging and
fire continues to threaten carbon stocks, habitat, and biodiversity in frontier forests along the …

Feeding 9 billion people by 2050 on one hand, and preserving biodiversity on the other
hand, are two shared policy goals at the global level. Yet while these goals are clear, they …