Landscape and natural resource management

A paper by an international team including SEI’s Francis X. Johnson argues that with good programme design, biofuel production can boost overall agricultural yields and food security.

This policy brief outlines policy actions for management of urban livestock production and identifies the existing knowledge gaps.

More than half of the world’s seven billion people live in urban areas – a proportion that is set to increase to 69% by 2050. Rapid urbanization will increase the demand for food security, nutritious diets and food safety for urban populations.

Achieving the ambitious Agenda 2030 requires solutions with multiple benefits across scales. One such solution may be to establish stronger land tenure systems in countries or regions that lack them.

Oskar Englund (Chalmers University of Technology) on understanding how biomass production systems can be designed to support other ecosystem services in the landscape

Mats Sandewall (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences) on using a participatory field point sampling (pfps) method for assesing land use situation and trends in Southeast Asia

Eskil Mattsson (University of Gothenburg) and Gert Nyberg (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences & Luleå University of Technology) present their upcoming systematic review on...

Nicholas Clarke (Norwegian institute of bioeconomy research) presents the results of a comparative study of different tree harvesting methods and their impact on biodiversity

Maria Nordborg (Chalmers University of Technology) presents the opportunities and challenges when using the potential natural vegetation (PNV) method for land use impact assessment