Food & Forests: Cultivating Resilient Landscapes

Resilience again!...OK, this conference is definitely sooner than the other one I posted previously, even too soon as it's on the 24-26th of January already, so this Thursay and Friday. Good news is they'll be doing a free online broadcast, nice! Should be quite interesting.

You can check the conference schedule, information and livestream link at:

19th Annual Conference

The International Society of Tropical Foresters, Yale Chapter

Stephen Ngowi

Hey guys,
This is for the current second year students who were on the JSM in the East Usambara mountains this summer. I've just been told by Thorsten that our friend and the organizer of pretty much the whole trip in Tanzania, Stephen Ngowi, passed away on Sunday due to health complications. He was a great guy and I hope he rests in peace.

CoFCCLoT

A bit of satire and a modest proposal from two authors and the Coalition of Financially Challenged Countries with Lots of Trees (!), seems appropriate for the sutrofor experience, quite funny (and not at the same time).

check out this commentary in Biotropica, as surely some of these thoughts have crossed your mind.

A Modest Proposal for Wealthy Countries to Reforest Their Land for the Common Good

(Meijaard and Sheil, 2011)

or maybe a bit on farmland abandonment and rewilding ecosystems...

Rewilding Abandoned Landscaped in Europe

(Navarro and Pereira, 2012)

cheers

Resilience!

Cool conference coming up, just in case you're interested in 'resilience thinking' and/or the south of France in May. I would definitely consider going, but I (and likely the rest of the 2nd years) will probably out doing fieldwork. Anyway, if anybody is really interested maybe something could be arranged for support, it is after all...in Montpellier ;)

http://www.resilience2014.org/

From their website:

"The aim of Resilience 2014 is to reinforce and explore the link between the resilience thinking and development issues. Although the concepts of Adaptation, Transformation and Development are central and common to several research communities, including Resilience, Ecological economics, and Farming systems, Territorial Development (among others), the opportunity to articulate their specific paradigms, concepts and methodologies are few. Complex problems require a diversity of approaches that can inform each other, generate a constructive debate and eventually lead to more suitable solutions. Besides, the diversity of viewpoints of the representatives from government, business and other major actors from various countries will add to the academic debate on the challenges facing societal development."