Participatory analysis of sustainable land and water management practices for integrated rural development in Myanmar The authors of this new study in the Journal of Water, Sanitation & Hygiene for Development used an expert participatory process to identify suitable Sustainable Land and Water Management practices in Myanmar, which can inform future development projects in rural the country. Read more Assessing land use changes and livelihood outcomes of rural people in Bangladesh This paper in Land Degradation & Development examines land use patterns of rural households and the association with food production and income across three different zones of various forest proximity across a landscape gradient (remote, intermediate and on‐road) in the Chittagong Hill Tracts region of Bangladesh. Read more Linking forest transition, plant invasion and forest succession theories: socioeconomic drivers and composition of new subtropical andean forests This paper in Landscape Ecology develops a framework integrating forest transition, forest succession and biological invasion theories to identify the socio-environmental conditions that facilitate different pathways of spontaneous forest transitions in a subtropical mountain basin. Read more Shared Socio-economic Pathways for European agriculture and food systems: The Eur-Agri-SSPs A new paper in Global Environmental Change followed a nine-step protocol to extend and enrich a set of global scenarios – the Shared Socio-economic Pathways (SSPs) – providing regional and sectoral detail for European agriculture and food systems using a one-to-one nesting participatory approach. The resulting five Eur-Agri-SSPs describe alternative plausible qualitative evolutions of multiple drivers of particular importance and high uncertainty for European agriculture and food systems. Read more A protocol to develop Shared Socio-economic Pathways for European agriculture A new paper in the Journal of Environmental Management presents a protocol to operationalize the development of Shared Socio-economic Pathways for European agriculture – Eur-Agri-SSPs – to support IAAS. The proposed design of the storyline development process is based on six quality criteria: plausibility, vertical and horizontal consistency, salience, legitimacy, richness and creativity. Read more |