Inspiring work from @EPL_at_ETH in the field... understanding the systemic challenges inhibiting supply chain policy implementation & agroforestry adoption for cocoa in Ghana Thomas Addoah Prisca Kouakou @JossLyonsWhite @FeCammelli

Our new paper is out #cocoasoils #TRADEHub: Risks from cocoa expansion and intensification across West Africa vary spatially and over time and require context appropriate strategies for action #sustainablecocoa #Cocoa doi.org/10.1016/j.land…

🙌Postdoc job offer! 2 years to work on cocoa supply chains & sustainability in West Africa, with a great team at @ELI_UCLouvain & Trase & colleagues from SUSTAIN-COCOA project epl.ethz.ch/research/SUSTA… incl. Erasmus zu Ermgassen @GoedeleVdBroeck euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/790520

Happy to share our paper where we highlight how context influenced farmers’ rationales for practicing Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR), an agroforestry-based approach being used in restoring degraded agricultural lands in African drylands sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

I'm grateful for the massive support from my supervisor @rach_garr and @EPL_at_ETH colleagues. And to my amazing team of enumerators, extension agents, and importantly the cocoa farmers who spent their time sharing their experiences with me. A lot has been learnt and to digest.

Call for abstracts for @FLARE’s 9th Annual Meeting now open! We are excited to see you in Nairobi October 12th-16th. Please submit via this link:app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/5741/su… CIFOR Keough School of Global Affairs Global Landscapes Forum (GLF)

In this correspondence in nature, we share an observation from my fieldwork on the indirect link between cocoa and food crop expansion in protected areas. Looking forward to the full article.

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Multiple PhD, Postdoc, and Student Assistant positions are now open for application at the Land Economics @ Uni Bonn Group at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn: ilr1.uni-bonn.de/en/research/re… Please note: Short deadline!

Our new paper on restoration finance is out today in NatureEcoEvo 🍃✨We wanted to understand what restoration projects and geographic areas private finance is going towards, what barriers there are, and how restoration finance can be scaled. A thread: nature.com/articles/s4155…

Check our new paper (led by Nikolai): Cocoa plantations are associated with deforestation in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana

Pleased to share my 2nd PhD paper. In the 1st known application of Q method to illegal wildlife trade (IWT) issues, we show that #pangolins are primarily harvested for food (not scales) in SE Nigeria, underpinning the need to improve food security & livelihoods in the region. 1/n

🚨Job Alert! 🚨 We are hiring a PostDoc Research Associate in the Social Dimensions of Landscape Regeneration to work with me in Cambridge Geography as part of the Centre for Landscape Regeneration. Please spread the word! Closing 22/Oct jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/43010/

"Major cocoa traders are holding off buying beans in top grower Ivory Coast due a standoff on prices and a lack of clarity over who will bear the cost of implementing a newly-mandated traceability system". bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Three weeks left to apply for the Cambridge University Masters in Conservation Leadership 2024! Taught in partnership with Cambridge Conservation Initiative Deadline 5 December 2023. Apply here: bit.ly/mcl2024 #Masters #Conservation #Leadership

📢RECRUITING POSTDOC/RESEARCH FELLOW for new Flourishing Landscapes Programme - an intl. collab. conducting transdisciplinary socio-ecological research🐞🌳🧑‍🌾 in smallholder agricultural systems at forest frontiers: 🇪🇨,🇬🇭,🇻🇳 my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit… Nature-based Solutions Initiative @UniofOxford Oxford Biology

🔊🎇Fully-funded, interdisciplinary PhD open to national & international applicants! Come join us UEA Research to discover how tropical fire discourses can be transformed to support more effective and just fire governance. 🔥 info here: tinyurl.com/4y3jy2sj

📢Job opening: join our Research Training Group! **15 PhD positions in Food Systems Economics** Deadline: 20 March 2024 More info here: uni-goettingen.de/de/635183.html Uni Göttingen

We are announcing up to 10 full PhD stipends for high-potential scholars from low- & middle-income countries to work with us at ZEF on topics like sustainable agriculture & food systems, poverty, nutrition, climate & health, land use & biodiversity, etc. Spread the word & apply.