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Resilient landscapes in focus when Tony Simons from World Agroforestry came to SLU

Published: 28 January 2020
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Last week, Professor Tony Simons from Nairobi, Kenya visited SLU. Tony Simons is the Executive Director of CIFOR-ICRAF after the merger of the two international research centres focused on forestry and agroforestry. He is also the Director General of World Agroforestry (ICRAF). In conjunction to the visit, a seminar on resilient landscapes took place, with contributions from Professor Simons and SLU researchers. See the presentations and watch the recorded seminar!

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From right: Tony Simons (ICRAF), Mattias Jonsson, Ingrid Öborn, Jennie Barron, Ulrik Ilstedt and Kristina Marquardt (all SLU). Photo: Malin Planting

The presentations during the seminar were:

Opportunities in building resilience in degraded watersheds: experience from the field in African context. Jennie Barron, Dept. of Soil and Environment

The transformative power of trees: Landscape restoration for carbon and water. 
Ulrik Ilstedt, Dept. of Forest Ecology and Management

Diversified agricultural landscapes for resilient pest control. 
Mattias Jonsson, Dept. of Ecology

Smallholder landscapes: understanding land use practices and dynamics of change. 
Kristina, Marquardt, Dept. Urban and Rural Development

CIFOR-ICRAF: Transformational change with resilient landscapes.
Tony Simons, CIFOR-ICRAF

Moderator for the day was Professor Ingrid Öborn, Dept. of Crop Protection Ecology.

Link to the recorded seminar.
(The seminar starts 37 minutes into the recording and will be available until 15 March.)

More about

Professor Tony Simons, ICRAF.

World Agroforestry (ICRAF)

Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)