Team

Arild angelsen

Arild Angelsen is a professor of economics at the School of Economics and Business, Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) and a senior associate of the Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF). He has done extensive research and published on tropical deforestation, and its interaction with poverty, tenure, government policies and REDD+.

paulina ansaa asante

Paulina is a postdoctoral researcher at Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Reseach Centre Frankfurt (SBiK-F). She did her PhD on the drivers of cocoa yield under current and future climates at the Crop Systems Analysis and the Forest Ecology Management research groups of Wageningen University and Research (WUR), The Netherlands on climate change-cocoa-forest interactions in West Africa. Her background is in Geo-information & Earth Observation for Natural Resources Management.

johanna coenen

Johanna is a postdoctoral researcher at Leuphana University, Lüneburg (Germany). Johanna’s research focuses on governance institutions for sustainability in globally telecoupled systems in the context of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and global commodity chains. Her main research interest concerns how to govern the environmental impacts of long-distance interactions between social-ecological systems.

ahmad dermawan

Ahmad is a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Economics and Business, Norwegian University of Life Sciences. Previously he worked as a scientist at of the Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF).

toby gardner

Toby Gardner is a Senior Research Fellow at SEI, where he co-leads SEI’s Initiative on Producer to Consumer Sustainability and the Transparency for Sustainable Economies platform (Trase). He has more than15 years’ experience in science and science-policy issues in human-modified landscapes across the tropics, with a strong emphasis on the management and conservation of biodiversity and ecosystem services in multiple-use agriculture-forestry landscapes, and the challenges of balancing environmental concerns and rural development priorities.

thomas kastner

Thomas is a Senior Scientist at the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre. He leads a research group on how global trade and consumption of agricultural and forestry products can contribute to moving towards more sustainable land-use practices. He has almost 20 years of experience in research on global land use, biomass metabolism and environmental consequences of food production and consumption. 

mairon g. bastos lima

Mairon G. Bastos Lima is a Senior Research Fellow at SEI Headquarters assessing leverage points and institutional innovations for sustainability transitions in land use, particularly around tropical ecosystems. He focuses on the policy, governance and political dimensions of agri-food systems and commodity supply chains and collaborates closely with the Transparency for Sustainable Economies (Trase) initiative.

u. martin persson

Martin Persson is a professor at Chalmers University of Technology (Gothenburg, Sweden) and carries out multidisciplinary research on sustainable land use, with special focus on issue relating to climate policy, tropical deforestation, and biofuels. The overall aim of the research is to understand how to formulate efficient policies to reduce negative environmental impacts of agricultural expansion in the tropics, assessing, e.g., payments for environmental services (PES) and Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) as well as processes that erodes the effectiveness of these policies such as leakage and indirect land use change (ILUC).

malaika yanou

Malaika Pauline Yanou is finalizing her PhD at the University of Amsterdam at the Institute of Social Science Research (AISSR) and COLANDS project (CIFOR). Her research focus is on the contribution of local knowledge to implement a landscape approach in Kalomo District, Zambia.

Previously Malaika joined CIFOR as research consultant working on landscape approaches, restoration, and food security issues.

She holds a MA in International relations and diplomatic affairs at the University of Bologna (Italy) and a MSc in food security and development at the University of Reading (UK). She is interested in decoloniality studies and visual anthropology