Highlights•Agroforestry shows promise for co-delivery of adaptation to and mitigation of
climate change.•Socio-environmental benefits of agroforestry should be considered in …

Understanding the negative and positive effects of agricultural land use for the conservation
of biodiversity, and its relation to ecosystem services, needs a landscape perspective …

The current scale of deforestation in tropical regions and the large areas of degraded lands
now present underscore the urgent need for interventions to restore biodiversity, ecological …

Human-wildlife conflict is a major issue in conservation. As people encroach into natural
habitats, and as conservation efforts restore wildlife to areas where they may have been …

As rates of deforestation continue to rise in many parts of the tropics, the international
conservation community is faced with the challenge of finding approaches which can reduce …

All is not well for biodiversity in the tropics. Despite recent debate over the extent of future
tropical extinctions and the effectiveness of reserve systems, the continued disappearance …

This paper examines forest income among rural dwellers in one of Malawi's most densely
populated districts, Chiradzulu. 160 households were interviewed in two sites, only 20 km …

Summary 1 Wild large herbivores provide goods and income to rural communities, have
major impacts on land use and habitats of conservation importance and, in some cases, face …

Ecosystems are complex adaptive systems, and their governance requires flexibility and a
capacity to respond to environmental feedback (Levin 1998, Berkes et al. 2000, Dietz et al …

This paper investigates livelihoods of communities around Mikumi, Tanzania's fourth largest
national park, and impacts of living close to the park. People are very poor in the area, also …