Presentation about WOCAT, its approach and functionalities. The presentation took place the 5th of November, inside the "Monitoring Evaluation and Learning, Data Management and Geo-informatics Option by Context – Learning Week" In Tunis, Tunisia (1-7 November, 2019).

Overview of Geoinformatic Options-by-Context (GeOC) Framework and Tools for Supporting SLM Targeting and Outscaling. The presentation took place the 5th of November, inside the "Monitoring Evaluation and Learning, Data Management and Geo-informatics Option by Context – Learning Week" In Tunis, Tunisia (1-7 November, 2019).

Overview of Geoinformatic Options-by-Context (GeOC) Framework and Tools for Supporting SLM Targeting and Outscaling. The presentation took place the 5th of November, inside the "Monitoring Evaluation and Learning, Data Management and Geo-informatics Option by Context – Learning Week" In Tunis, Tunisia (1-7 November, 2019).

Presentation about data entry on the online form of Sustainable Land Management (SLM) option by context. The presentation took place the 5th of November, inside the "Monitoring Evaluation and Learning, Data Management and Geo-informatics Option by Context – Learning Week" In Tunis, Tunisia (1-7 November, 2019).

This explanatory video illustrates the higher crop yields and increased water efficiency as a result of the raised-bed agriculture component of the project.

Weather variability is an important source of production risk for rainfed agriculture in developing countries. This paper evaluates the impacts of the adoption of drought-tolerant maize varieties on average maize yield, yield stability, risk exposure and resource use in rainfed smallholder maize farming. The study uses cross-sectional farm household-level data, collected from a sample of 840 farm households in Uganda. The adoption of drought-tolerant maize varieties increased yield by 15% and reduced the probability of crop failure by 30%.

Smallholder producers in sub-Saharan Africa are often unable integrate into markets and access high-value opportunities by effectively participating in global chains for high-value fresh produce. Using data from a survey of large avocado farmers in Kenya, this study examines the determinants and impacts of smallholder-producer participation in avocado export markets on labor inputs, farm yields, sales prices, and incomes, using a switching regression framework to control for selection effects.

Recent studies assessing agricultural policies, including the EU’s Agri-Environment Scheme, have shown that these have been successful in attaining some environmental goals. In Finland, however, the economic situation of farms has dramatically fallen and hence, the actions do not result in social acceptability. Sustainable intensification is a means to combine the three dimensions of sustainability: environmental, economic and social. Here we introduce a novel land use optimization and planning tool for the sustainable intensification of high-latitude agricultural systems.

Cover crops are considered to be beneficial for multiple ecosystem services, and they have been widely promoted through the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in the EU and Farm Bill Conservation Title Programs, such as the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP), in the USA. However, it can be difficult to decide whether the beneficial effects of cover crops on some ecosystem services are likely to outweigh their harmful effects on other services, and thus to decide whether they should be promoted by agricultural policy in specific situations.

Managing forests sustainably for multiple objectives requires multi-faceted socio-technical knowledge. This study explores the challenges of using knowledge within social and technical knowledge systems in decision-making about and the management of privately-owned forests in Finland. We define the technical knowledge system as the collection of standardized forms of knowledge and the IT systems supporting their storage and distribution. The social knowledge system consists of people who use and generate knowledge, as well as the societal norms that regulate their actions.

The viability of the climate pledges made by Brazil at the COP21 in Paris, 2015, heavily depends on the success of the country policies related to forest governance. Particularly, there are high expectations that the enforcement of the Brazilian Forest Code (BFC) will drive large-scale forest recovery and carbon mitigation. In this study, we quantified the potential role that ongoing forest regeneration may play in offsetting deficits from private properties with less vegetation cover than determined by the BFC, considering different law implementation settings.

Environmental economists routinely use travel cost methods to value recreational services from protected areas, but a number of limitations remain. First, most travel cost studies focus on a single protected area or a small handful of protected area sites; value estimates that relate to a protected area network across a larger geographic area or jurisdiction are rare. Second, most protected area travel cost studies use on-site sampling techniques that bias value estimates towards those reported by frequent visitors.