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Miombo matters

Miombo matters

Notes and queries about land system science, with a bias towards the southern African woodlands. This is the blog for Casey Ryan and the LANDteam research group at the University of Edinburgh

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Social as much as environmental: the drivers of tree biomass in smallholder forest landscape restoration programmes

New paper just out: Wells G, Fisher J, Jindal R, Ryan C. 2020. Social as much as environmental: the drivers of tree biomass in smallholder forest landscape restoration programmes. Environmental Research Letters. Open access at: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ab96d1 A major challenge for forest landscape restoration initiatives is the lack of quantitative evidence on how social factors drive […]

1st June 2020 0

Wild land resources as a coping strategy in times of crisis: evidence from Zimbabwe

There is conflicting evidence in the literature about how important wild land resources are during times of crisis (shocks like harvest failure, loss of household labour etc). This paper just out shows that they can be very important, particularly when the shocks co-occur with other crises.   Environmental resources are also critical when region-wide hazards […]

9th January 2020 0

The effect of charcoal production on soil organic carbon and total nitrogen in the drylands of southern Mozambique

The effect of charcoal production on soil organic carbon and total nitrogen in the drylands of southern Mozambique New paper just out, and free access for 50 days via this link: https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1aCVj1L~GwKTkP Lisboa, S.N., Woollen, E., Grundy, I.M., Ryan, C.M., Smith, H.E., Zorrilla-Miras, P., Baumert, S., Ribeiro, N., Vollmer, F., Holland, M. & Sitoe, A. […]

10th December 2019 0

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