Ramzi has published an article with Karl in the Journal of Latin American Geography (JLAG) on the geographic dynamics of conservation, development, forest management, and indigenous territories in the Peruvian Amazon. Sara’s in-press article treats the roles of uncertainty and farmer strategies in experience and responses to the banana disease crisis in western Uganda. See Publications for more details.
Category Archives: Publications
– Agrobiodiversity: Integrating Knowledge for a Sustainable Future, new book by Karl and Stef de Haan (MIT Press, Fall 2018)
Karl and Stef de Haan, a collaborator with the GeoSyntheSES lab, are publishing a new book on agrobiodiversity and sustainability through the MIT Press. The book is entitled Agrobiodiversity: Integrating Knowledge for a Sustainable Future (https://mitpress.mit.edu/contributors/karl-s-zimmerer) and features the work of the international group of scientists and scholar that they organized at the Ernst Strungmann Forum. In addition to Karl and Stef, the committee that guided the forum consisted of Conny Almekinders, Stephen Brush, Tim Johns, and Yves Vigouroux.
– Karl, Ramzi, and collaborators publish new 2018 research on “Climate change, agrobiodiversity, and food” in Harvard’s ReVista
Karl Zimmerer and Ramzi working in the GeoSyntheSES Lab have collaborated in a major international research project with colleagues at the University of Michigan, the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), and the Instituto para la Investigación Nutricional (IIN). The group has published a new article on “Climate change and food: Challenges and opportunities in tropical mountains and agrobiodiversity hotspots.” It appears in the spring 2018 issue of ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America, volume 12 (number 3), pages 53-57, and can be found at https://revista.drclas.harvard.edu/book/climate-change-and-food. In addition to Karl and Ramzi, the co-authors are Andrew Jones, Stef de Haan, Hilary Creed-Kanashiro, Miluska Carrasco, Krysty Mesa, Milka Tello, Tubbeh, and Ghisela Cruz García**
– New article in Nature Plants (Spring 2017) on “Agrobiodiversity and a Sustainable Food Future” by lab and collaborator in Vietnam. Research copies available upon request (see link).
Karl and Stef de Haan of the Hanoi office of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)have published their article on “Agrobiodiversity and a Sustainable Food Future” in the Spring issue of the journal Nature Plants. Karl and Stef make the case for the timely and vital importance of policy-relevant agrobiodiversity research that integrates the plant, environmental, social, and health sciences. This integrative agrobiodiversity research is needed to respond to global environmental and socioeconomic changes that range from climate change to globalization. They provide the synthesis of new and recent research in order to create their integrative conceptual framework that coalesces around four thematic cornerstones that are both interdisciplinary and policy relevant. These cornerstones are: (1) genetics, ecology, and evolution where contributions incorporate new tools ranging from plant improvement to agroecology; (2) governance including rights-based approaches; (3) food and human health, nutrition, and disease; and (4) analysis of adaptation, vulnerability, resilience, and design capacity in response to global change drivers.
See more on Karl and Stef’s work in the PSU News article “Integrative approach needed to protect crop biodiversity, researcher says,” released May 10, 2017.
The full citation is:
Zimmerer, Karl S., and Stef de Haan, S. 2017. Agrobiodiversity and a sustainable food future. Nature Plants 3: 1-3.
For an individual research copy (pdf format) please contact the GeoSyntheSES Lab contact (meganbaumann@psu.edu).