Center for International Agricultural Research for Development
Goods and Services of Tropical Forest Ecosystems
Last update: 26 October 2012
The aim of the unit is to boost the efficacy of public action in terms of maintaining tropical forest ecosystems, while respecting the principles of equity and of reducing inequality. Its work centres on three components: areas primarily covered by natural or planted tropical and subtropical forests; the societies that make a living from and depend directly on forests, and transform them; and public policies and instruments that apply to forests.
The scientific unit aims at studying the ecology of tropical forests, but also to define, implement and evaluate governmental policies, instruments, rules and practices associated with these ecosystems. The overall objective is to facilitate the adaptation of environmental and social systems at the constraints and opportunities resulting from global changes, as well as to consolidate the sustainability of services provided by tropical forest ecosystems for the benefit of societies, at local and global scales.
UR B&SEF is a SPOP partner
| Laurène joined the B&SEF research team in 2011, to work on interactions between forests, agriculture and livestocks. Her present research activities focus on the Central African region. She looks at drivers of deforestation and forest degradation outside the forest sector, specifically the expansion of family agriculture, and large-scale investments in forested lands for agro-industrial plantations and mining activities. Previously, she has been working at IRD as a PhD candidate, based at CIFOR headquarters in Indonesia. Her PhD research looked at agroforests conversion to monospecific plantations in Indonesia, with a focus on oil palm development. She was notably much involved in the research project ‘Integrating livelihoods and multiple biodiversity values in landscape mosaics’, a multi-disciplinary project coordinated by CIFOR and ICRAF and funded by the Swiss Agency for Development. |
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| Laurène Feintrenie | |
Last update: 26 October 2012