Restoration
Plantations and tree crop commodities
Enhanced nutrition and food security
Biodiversity, safeguarding and conservation
Nationally determined contributions
Bioenergy and biomaterials
Blue carbon and peatlands
Climate change adaptation
Landscape governance
Gender
Silvopastoral systems
Market-based agroforestry-forestry
Farm-forest policy interface
Agroecology
Livelihood trajectory modelling and assessment
Inclusive finance and business models
Innovating finance for sustainable landscapes
Public and private commitments to zero deforestation
Orphan tree crops
Effectiveness of approaches to sustainable supply
Quality of FTA research for development
Sentinel landscapes
Foresight
Seeds and seedlings delivery systems
Smallholder tree-crop commodities
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Christopher Kettle PhD is an ecologist and geneticist. He has 20 years of research experience working in tropical forest landscapes and restoration. He believes that forest bioversity, especially the diversity of trees, offers a critical and underutilized nature-based solution for multiple sustainable development goals, including climate change mitigation, resilient landscape restoration and sustainable food systems. Since August 2017, Christopher has led Bioversity International’s cross-cutting interdisciplinary research team working on the conservation and sustainable use of socioeconomically and ecologically important trees and their genetic diversity. He leads research programs across Southeast Asia, Latin America and Africa and the safeguarding forest genetic resources cluster of FTA. He holds a joint appointment and is also group leader in the Department of Environmental System Science, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and an associate scientist in the department of plant science at the University of Oxford, UK. Prior to joining Bioversity International, Christopher was a senior lecturer at ETH Zurich (2007 – present), and supervised over 10 PhD students mostly on topics that inform the conservation and sustainable management of tropical forests. He taught tropical rainforest ecology and led an MSc on resilience of ecological systems. He has a PhD from the University of Edinburgh, UK.
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Ramni H. Jamnadass is Principal Scientist and a leader for Tree Genetic Resources program at World Agroforestry and leader of Flagship 1 in the CGIAR Research Program (CRP) Forests Trees and Agroforestry focussing on:
1. Safeguarding diversity in-situ, ex-situ and circa-situ
2. Domestication and Use
3. Seed seedling Delivery systems including Nurseries
4. Economic and Environment benefits of TGR with Institutional development.
She leads a team that delivers research for development products and decision support tools to support conservation and use of the right trees for the right place and purpose (functional uses for e.g. food and nutrition, bioenergy, income generation, ecosystem services, etc.) to realize livelihood and environmental impacts. While also leading ICRAF Genebank, Ramni has strong engagement with the private sector e.g. the African Orphan Crops Consortium, supported by Mars, Inc., Illumina, Inc., and partners in a public-private partnership with a mission to develop and promote use of nutritious tree-foods and annual crops using genomics, with AAK and partners to develop sustainable value chains of Shea in Africa, etc. She holds a PhD in Biochemistry from the Brunel University London and spent many years teaching at the University of Nairobi and Kenyatta University before joining the CGIAR.
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Bas Louman is program coordinator at Tropenbos International (TBI), coordinating the CGIAR Forests Trees and Agroforestry program on Innovative finance for sustainable landscapes. He is focusing now on finance mechanisms that supports sustainability and climate actions in landscapes in Indonesia, Vietnam and Ghana, and supporting TBIs work in DRC, Surinam, Bolivia and Colombia.
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Vincent Gitz is the director of FTA and ex-officio member of the Independent Steering Committee. Engineer of Ecole Polytechnique (1994), France, he holds a PhD from AgroParisTech on land-use and global climate policies that was awarded the Le Monde Prize for academic research. He previously worked for CIRAD, the International Research Center on Environment and Development (CIRED) and with the Energy Planning Program of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He served as adviser for environment, sustainable development and research to the French minister of agriculture and fisheries, Michel Barnier, from 2007-2009, and just prior to joining CIFOR, he was assistant director for food policy at the French Ministry of Agriculture, Agrifood and Forests. From 2010 to 2015, Vincent was coordinator of the High-Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE), the science-policy interface of United Nation’s Committee on World Food Security (CFS).
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Maryam Rahmanian is an international consultant on issues related to biodiversity and agroecology. She was a Research Associate at the Centre for Sustainable Development and Environment (CENESTA), an Iranian NGO from 2001 to 2014, where she initiated the programme on Participatory Plant Breeding, working with farmers and breeders to develop varieties adapted to climate change. She was Vice Chair of the High Level Panel of Experts of the Commitee on World Food Security for two terms (2010 to 2015) and is currently a member of the Steering Committee of the Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity for Agriculture and Food study (TEEBAgriFood). She has also been a Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in Potsdam, Germany.
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Holger Meinke is Strategic Research Professor for Global Food Sustainability at the University of Tasmania, Australia. As an internationally renowned leader in climate, agriculture and food systems research, he provides intellectual leadership for the University. He has published over 110 refereed papers in disciplinary and transdisciplinary journals. He supervises five PhD candidates. Professor Meinke is passionate about education that fosters critical thinking and high-quality research that has impact. He is also the Chair of the ISDC, a standing panel of experts appointed by the CGIAR’s System Council to serve as an independent advisor on science and research matters, including strategies for effective partnerships along the research for development continuum. He was Director of the Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture at UTAS for nine years (2011-2019). Prior to that he was Professor for Crop and Weed Ecology at Wageningen University, the Netherlands (2007-2011)
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Alexander Müller is one if the founder of TMG – Think Tank for Sustainablility and Managing Director of both “TMG – Töpfer Müller Gaßner GmbH and TMG Research gGmbH”. From 2014 to 2017 he was leading “The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity for Agriculture and Food” (TEEBAgriFood) hosted by UN Environment Program. From 20016 to 2013 he served as Assistant-Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), where he was responsible for the development of Voluntary Guidelines for Responsible Governance of Tenure (VGGT).
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Robert Nasi was born in 1959 in Nice, France. He graduated as a forest engineer from the French National Forestry School and achieved a PhD in the field of ecology from the University of Paris Sud – Orsay. Since 1982, he has been living and travelling extensively in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, undertaking research activities in the fields of ecology and management of tropical forests. He joined CIFOR in August 1999 and held several research and management positions in the organization (principal scientist, biodiversity program leader, program director). He is, since November 1, 2017, the director general of CIFOR, and since January 1, 2014, the deputy director general for research. His particular research interests include the sustainable use of forest products and multiple-use management of tropical forests. His scientific work aims to integrate social and biological sciences for better management of tropical forests, more sustainable livelihoods and better designed forest policies. His main disciplines are ecology, botany, biometrics, tropical forest management and silviculture. He has authored or co-authored more than 300 scientific publications.
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Anne-Marie Izac is an independent scientist who has led research programs at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and ICRAF before becoming the deputy director general for research at ICRAF and at CIRAD. She was the first CGIAR Consortium chief science officer until 2014. She also held the positions of CGIAR Consortium chief executive officer during the initial 18 months of the Consortium’s creation and of chief officer of the alliance created by the 15 CGIAR Centers, before the Consortium was created. Izac was a lead author in key reports such as the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (Nutrient chapter). She has been an advisor on sustainable agriculture to the Dutch Royal Academy of Sciences and served on the scientific board of various institutions, such as the Sustainable Agriculture Initiative Platform. She serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Sustainable Agriculture. Izac is an ecological economist who specializes in sustainable agriculture in developing countries. Her PhD is in environmental and natural resource economics (University of Western Australia) and she earned an MSc in ecology and an MA in environmental and natural resources economics (Washington State University). She is also a graduate of a French ‘Grande Ecole’ (HEC).
