Laura Kmoch

Enumerating landscape change Agroforestry, woodlots, and terraces were at the heart of our latest data collection round for the RESTORE project. How did we study them…

What makes data collection memorable? And which insights from our recent photo elicitation survey in #Rwanda will stick with the data collection team?

Find out by reading their first-hand stories in this blogpost: t1p.de/7pe80

With @plieningerlab.bsky.social from @agrarunigoe.bsky.social

We’re aiming for diverse perspectives in this Special Feature. Please share and tag relevant colleagues in your network to spread the word!

#Restoration #SocialEcological #CallForProposals #UNDecade #geography @peopleandnature.bsky.social @plieningerlab.bsky.social

People and Nature is seeking proposals to the Special Feature “Halfway through the UN Decade: taking stock of social-ecological restoration”.

Submissions will be open until 30th June - find all further information & the submission form here:
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🌿 Call for Proposals: Special Feature in People and Nature 🌿

"Halfway through the UN Decade: Taking stock of social-ecological restoration"

We're looking for bold, critical, and constructive contributions that forge new pathways and guide the next years of the UN Decade.

🔗 Details: t1p.de/6woms

Olive trees in the terraced landscape of the High Atlas. Sustaining livelihoods and cultural identity, olive is the main cultural keystone species here. Photo by Tobias Plieninger @plieningerlab.bsky.social

Olive, walnut, and almond are cultural keystone species for the Amazigh communities in Morocco’s High Atlas Mountains. Knowing this can enhance biocultural conservation. Read the article by @mobarakchaima.bsky.social, @laurakmoch.bsky.social, @plieningerlab.bsky.social and coauthors: t.ly/3Hc4J

‘Nomadic Peoples’ 29.1 is live – a special issue edited by W. Ning, S. Joshi and Y. Shaoliang on ‘Pastoral Resilience and Transformation in the Hindu Kush Himalaya’. NP is #openaccess in 2025 by #subscribetoopen; read it here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpnp/cu... #pastoralism #himalaya

The PhD Rollercoaster: Highs, Lows, and the Moments That Mattered Dr. Sukanya recently finished her PhD. Here she reflects on the completed journey, and what is next!

📣 New post out on People • Nature • Landscapes: t1p.de/g3f2m

Sukanya Basu reflects on her recently completed #PhD journey and what's next in the UK.

Read on for tales of #tree friends, discovering #food paradise, and urban blue infrastructure #research in megacities of #India.

#AcademicSky

📣 Welcome to the Focali annual meeting 2025!

⏰ 13 March, 9.30-16.30
📍 In central Stockholm

👉 Read more on the event page and sign up here: ui.ungpd.com/Events/0485a...

👉 Check out the call for talks and submit yours: ui.ungpd.com/Surveys/c36c...

Oral histories reveal biocultural diversity across three regions of rural Germany Biocultural diversity is the concept of links between human cultural diversity and biological diversity. In rural regions, where forests…

🧐How are biological and human cultural diversity interlinked and changing over time?

Emmeline Topp addressed these questions through oral history interviews in three contrasting regions of Germany.

Read the latest on People • Nature • Landscapes for more on her fascinating results: t1p.de/4sjk4

Ecosystem services in peri-urban China: how are they perceived, and how can we conserve them? In this blog, Zheyi Xia introduces himself as a guest researcher at SEIAS.

🌿💧Agricultural intensification, urbanisation, water conservation, and flood protection change the #landscapes of peri-urban #Shanghai.

🧐How does this shift affect different residents, and their ecosystem services access?

Find out by reading Zheyi Xia's blogpost: medium.com/people-natur...

The nexus between agroforestry landscapes and dietary diversity: insights from Myanmar’s Central Dry Zone - Landscape Ecology Context Agroforestry plays a crucial role in increasing tree-based food production for healthy and sustainable food systems. However, the potential of farm trees to contribute to farmers' dietary dive...

#Agroforestry contributes to dietary diversity through providing food, income & energy and supporting agroecological processes. An excellent first phd paper by Khant Sandar Htet about 3 native trees leading to dietary diversification in Myanmar. With @laurakmoch.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1007/s109...

📣New article out in Landscape Ecology: t1p.de/jgbll

Khant Sandar Htet discusses the importance of #agroforestry in #Myanmar's #drylands.

Toddy palms, jujube and thanakha #trees enhance farmers' dietary diversity along four interlinked paths.

@plieningerlab.bsky.social #LandscapeEcology #food

Why facts don't change minds: Insights from cognitive science for the improved communication of conservation research Conservation scientists increasingly seek to find ways to implement their research for improved policy and practice. However, such efforts may be inef…

It drives me mad how often I need to repeat that improving people's knowledge/awareness of sustainability challenges WILL NOT per se translate in more sustainable behaviour. That's, unfortunately, not how people function. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Bee-Sniffing Dogs Deployed by Texas Parks and Wildlife to Study Habitats These pups help with pollinator conservation efforts

Bumblebee nests are hard to find, yet they need protection from spring through fall to allow the colony to complete their life cycles. Dogs to the rescue! Texas officials have trained dogs to sniff out nests so that they can be protected and studied for conservation purposes. 🧪 tinyurl.com/5db52zva

Diverging values and development options for agroforestry in a metropolitan area of North Africa The use of large green infrastructures in peri-urban areas, such as urban forests, has become one of the most relevant tools to mitigate some of the n…

📣New article out in Urban Forestry & Urban Greening

We explore diverging values and management options for a large peri-urban #agroforestry system - the #Maâmora forest in #Morocco.

Led by @mrio-torralba.bsky.social with @plieningerlab.bsky.social, Emmeline Topp and Fouad Mounir.
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Do Geographical Indication labels inform about the sustainability of landscape-based food products? Among producers of regionalized foodstuff, there are common positive beliefs about sustainability of their products. While the Geographic…

Do you like🧀? Or care about 🌿 landscapes and #certification?

👉 Check out the latest post on our People, Nature, Landscape Blog.

@lukaseff.bsky.social discusses geographical indication labels and the sustainability of landscape-based #food products in 🇩🇪, 🇬🇷, and 🇪🇸.

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Land management within #planetaryboundaries is critical for addressing the land-use crisis, finds new PIK / UNCCD report. Land #degradation drives biodiversity loss, worsens climate impacts, and threatens agriculture, food security & livelihoods all over the world.
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Let’s celebrate! The International Day of Forests The 21st of March is the International Day of Forests. This year themed “Forests and Innovation”. We’d like to celebrate this occasion, by…

Let's celebrate 🎉 It's the International Day of Forests 🌿🌳

To mark this occasion, our team shares stories from our forest-related research. Think forests in Lower Saxony 🍂, Mangroves 🍃, and Rwandan Forest Restoration 👇

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#InternationalDayofForests #InternationalForestDay #ForestDay

Exploring Urban Edible Foraging: Navigating Megacity Landscapes Urban foraging is essential for promoting biodiversity. It makes use of underutilised resources, reduces food waste, fosters people’s…

📣Mega-city lakes and urban foraging - what's the link?

🦀🌿💧Find out in Sukanya Basu's latest post on our research group's People • Nature • Landscapes blog:

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Winterdürre setzt Südeuropa und Nordafrika zu Wassereinschränkungen und Dürrenotstände sind in manchen Regionen die Folge. Die Situation hat sich seit Ende Jänner verschlechtert

Klimanotstand in Süditalien, teilen Spaniens, Algerien, Marokko und Tunesien.
Dürre auf Sizilien.
Marokko im 6. Dürrejahr, mit 37° im Februar.

Und hier protestieren die Bauern für billigeren Diesel.. 🤦

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Opinion | Kicking Native People Off Their Land Is a Horrible Way to Save the Planet Forcing Indigenous people out of protected areas they help manage and rely upon is not the way to achieve biodiversity and climate goals.

Kicking Native People Off Their Land Is a Horrible Way to “Save the Planet” 🌍 www.nytimes.com/2024/02/20/o...

Drought threatens agroforestry landscapes and dryland livelihoods in a North African hotspot of environmental change Dryland agroforestry is often hailed as a nature-based solution for rural people’s water- and climate-related struggles, yet appraisals of traditional…

📣 New paper alert! with @plieningerlab.bsky.social and Aimad Bou-Lahriss.

We appraise rural people's plight with water scarcity and the promise of dryland tree planting as a nature-based solution to High Atlas communities' drought-related struggles.

Open access - please share widely. #geography

Bluesky is now open. Science Twitter, here’s how to use it! The once-great science twitter is, depending on who you talk to, either dying or dead. Once a vibrant place for many discussions related to my fields of marine biology, ocean conservation, and publ…

Friends, I wrote up a quick guide to getting started on Bluesky for folks who are used to old Science Twitter.

Please share it with your folks who are joining. And please let me know if I missed anything or got anything wrong. 🧪

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Group photo of colleagues from the Plieninger Lab

What a great team of colleagues to be around, at the
@plieningerlab.bsky.social 🙌

We spent three intense days with reflections on our landscape research, biocultural approaches, and scicom strategy last week.

Thanks to Staatsdomäne Frankenhausen for hosting us - we enjoyed the ❄️ and tasty food 🧑‍🍳

My Journey in Social-Ecological Interactions for Sustainable Land Management After 5 years at the Social-Ecological Interactions Group (SEIAS), I started last month a new position at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. My…

Our great colleague Dr. Mario Torralba recently commenced a new position at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

In the latest post on our research groups People • Nature • Landscapes blog he looks back on his postdoc years in the
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„Schenk doch mal ein Lächeln“ jetzt steht der Wunschbaum in unserer Bezirkszentralbibliothek. Hier könnt ihr Geschenkwünsche geflüchteter Kinder erfüllen! xhain @baxhain.bsky.social mehr Infos hier: www.berlin.de/ba-friedrich...

"Transforming the Mediterranean region through agroforestry: Large scale restoration of degraded lands by overcoming the socioeconomic & sociocultural barriers for agroforestry adoption". We're proud to be part of this new EU-PRIMA-funded project, coordinated by Laura Armengot. More infos soon!

Machine vision — technofix or smallholder solution to the EUDR conundrum? The groundbreaking EU Regulation on Deforestation-Free Products (EUDR) stipulates that any product which comes from a plot of land with…

Sustainable coffee farming with AI-powered technology for smallholders! New blog to explore the potential of machine vision in #deforestation -free #coffee @plieningerlab.bsky.social @laurakmoch.bsky.social #SustainableAgriculture #CoffeeTech #EUDR

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