Publications

Expertise
Forestry | Digitalization | Agriculture | Climate

Smart Forests: Leveraging AI-Remote Sensing to Combat Forest Degradation and Carbon Loss in Ethiopian Coffee Landscapes

Michelle Kalamandeen, Katja Weyhermüller and Johannes Pirker
Forestry | Climate

Native Seedling Nursery Manual

unique land use GmbH
Agriculture

Turning Harm Into Opportunity: Repurposing agricultural subsidies that destroy forests and non-forest natural ecosystems – Executive Summary & Policy Recommendations

Signe Nelgen, Simon Charré, unique land use GmbH; Pablo Pacheco, WWF
Forestry

Nationwide remote sensing framework for forest resource assessment in war-affected Ukraine

Viktor Myroniuk, Axel Weinreich, Vincent von Dosky, Viktor Melnychenko, Andrii Shamrai, Maksym Matsala, Matthew J. Gregory, David M. Bell, Raymond Davis
Forestry

Potentials for enhanced contributions of wood value chains to the national economy in Viet Nam

Held, C.; Alonso, V.; Lippe, R. S.; Schweinle, J.
Forestry

Ukraine’s wood industry: navigating current chal-lenges and forging a path to growth in a recovery scenario

Alonso, V.; Wippel, B.; Soloviy, I.; Chelepis, T.; Lavnyy, V.; Lippe, R. S.; Schweinle, J.
Agriculture

Policy brief – Farmers’ Organizations as Change Agents for the Transformation of Agricultural and Food Systems

Jana Rauch
Agriculture | Climate

Guidebook for Project developers – Best practice for Agricultural carbon project development targeting Voluntary Carbon Markets (VCM)

Timm Tennigkeit, Adaugo Okoli, Alexis Brakhan
Forestry | Climate

Restoration of Degraded Coastal Forests in Vietnam’s North Central Coast

Till Pistorius, Ho Dac Thai Hoang, Tai Tien Dinh, Le Thai Hung, Maximilian Roth & Tran Khuong Duy
Agriculture | Climate

Landscape Restoration Opportunities in the Naryn River Basin, the Kyrgyz Republic : Restoration Opportunities Assessment Methodology (ROAM) Report (English)

World Bank
Forestry | Agriculture | Climate

Funding Options for Ecosystem Restoration in Central America and Africa

Jacinto Coello, Laura Frey
Forestry | Digitalization

Forest Flux – Final Report

Tuomas Häme, Laura Sirro, Lauri Seitsonen, Yrjö Rauste, Matti Mõttus, Jukka Miettinen, Matthias Dees, Lincoln Davis, Fernando Rossi, Juho Penttilä, Markus Auvinen, Jussi Rasinmäki, Annikki Mäkelä, Francesco Minunno, Xianglin Tian, Gheorghe Marin, Marius Dumitru
Forestry

Producción de semillas de árboles nativos

Andrea Braun et al.
Agriculture

Rwanda Value Chain and Regulatory Assessment Fertilizer and Pesticides

unique land use GmbH
Agriculture | Climate

Compensating farmers for ecosystem services

Eva Wollenberg, Timm Tennigkeit, Dhanush Dinesh, Sophia Baumert, Felicitas Röhrig, Lisa Kirfel-Rühle, Leanne Zeppenfeldt
Agriculture

Time management governs climate resilience and productivity in the coupled rice–wheat cropping systems of eastern India

Andrew J. McDonald, Balwinder-Singh, Alwin Keil, Amit Srivastava, Peter Craufurd, Avinash Kishore, Virender Kumar, Gokul Paudel, Sudhanshu Singh, A. K. Singh, R. K. Sohane & R. K. Malik
Forestry

Development of case studies to enhance the employment situation in Kenya’s forestry and wood sector

Veronica Alonso, Paul Jacovelli
Agriculture

Conservation Agriculture Benefits Indian Farmers, but Technology Targeting Needed for Greater Impacts

Vijesh V. Krishna, Alwin Keil, Meha Jain, Weiqi Zhou, Monish Jose, Subash Surendran-Padmaja, Luis Barba-Escoto, Balwinder-Singh, M. L. Jat and Olaf Erenstein
Agriculture | Climate

Policy brief – Aligning improved livelihoods of coffee farmers and forest conservation in Ethiopia’s southwest highlands

Grit Techel
Forestry | Digitalization

Helping forest owners to manage forest carbon – the Forest Flux project

Tuomas Häme, Laura Sirro, Matthias Dees, Annikki Mäkelä, Juho Penttilä, Gheorghe Marin and Margarida Tomé
Digitalization | Agriculture | Climate

Digital solutions for small-scale farming: Fostering climate resilient and low carbon agrifood systems

Johannes Mössinger, Timm Tennigkeit
Forestry

Waldwärts Rhein-Wied

Marlène Zehfuß, Bernd Wippel
Forestry

An analysis of the future supply of and demand for tropical timber and its contributions to a sustainable economy

Christian Held, Eva Meier-Landsberg and Verónica Alonso
Digitalization | Agriculture

Bridging the gap between models and users: A lightweight mobile interface for optimized farming decisions in interactive modeling sessions

Johannes Mössinger, Christian Troost, Thomas Berger
Forestry

What lies ahead for the tropical timber sector?

Christian Held, Eva Meier-Landsberg, Verónica Alonso
Digitalization | Agriculture

Of milk and mobiles: Assessing the potential of cellphone applications to reduce cattle milk yield gaps in Africa using a case study

Christian Bateki, Thomas Daum, Ana Salvatierra-Rojas, Joachim Müller, Regina Birner, Uta Dickhoefer
Digitalization | Agriculture | Climate

The power of digitalization: Transforming agrifood systems to enhance climate benefits

Timm Tennigkeit, Johannes Mössinger
Agriculture | Climate

Restoring Degraded Coffee Landscapes and Scaling up Sustainable Production in South-West Ethiopia

UNIQUE forestry and land use
Forestry | Climate

Nature-based Solutions im freiwilligen Kohlenstoffmarkt – aktuelle Bedeutung und Potenziale

Benjamin Schwarz, Till Pistorius, Mathias Seebauer
Agriculture | Climate

Institutional Analysis of the Current National System and Processes Related to Climate Change in Turkmenistan

Bunafsha Mislimshoeva, Gulbahar Abdurasulova, Jonathan Walsh, and Jochen Statz
Forestry | Agriculture | Climate

Evaluation of Initiative for Sustainable Landscapes Program (ISLA)

Reichhuber, A.; Iskandarani, M.; Techel, G.; Davis, L.; Panev, M.
Agriculture | Climate

Estimating Environmental Impacts of Climate Smart, Organic, and Regenerative Agriculture

Anke Reichhuber, Suzanne van Dijk, Jonathan Walsh
Forestry | Digitalization | Agriculture

A map of the extent and year of detection of oil palm plantations in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand

Olga Danylo, Johannes Pirker, Guido Lemoine, Guido Ceccherini, Linda See, Ian McCallum, Hadi, Florian Kraxner, Frédéric Achard & Steffen Fritz
Agriculture

Zero-tillage wheat provides stable yield and economic benefits under diverse growing season climates in the Eastern Indo-Gangetic Plains

Alwin Keil, Archisman Mitra, Andrew McDonald, Ram Kanwar Malik
Agriculture | Climate

Variation in the carbon footprint of milk production on smallholder dairy farms in central Kenya

Andreas Wilkes, Shimels Wassie, Charles Odhong’, Simon Fraval, Suzanne van Dijk
Agriculture

The Livestock Sub-sector in Kenya’s NDC: a scoping of gaps and priorities

Andreas Wilkes et al.
Forestry | Private impact investments

The impact of FLEGT VPAs on forest sector investment risk in Indonesia and Viet Nam

Christian Held
Forestry

Stärkung von FWZ durch Kennzahlenvergleich

Brandt, M.; Niemöller, B.; Wippel, B.
Forestry | Agriculture

Report on Options for Naturebased Solutions to Enhance NDC Commitments in Three Countries (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan)

Eva Kehayova, Bunafsha Mislimshoeva, Gulbahar Abdurasulova, Bernd Wippel
Agriculture

Meta-analysis of the effects of on-farm management strategies on milk yields of dairy cattle on smallholder farms in the Tropics

C. A. Bateki, S. van Dijk, A. Wilkes, U. Dickhoefer and R. White
Forestry | Agriculture

Mainstreaming the Ecosystem-based Adaptation approach into policy planning

Bunafsha Mislimshoeva, Renuka Srinivasan, Jochen Statz
Forestry | Climate

Leserbrief – Alternative Libanonzeder?

Matthias Wenzel
Agriculture

Info note – The impact of COVID-19 on low-emission dairy development in Kenya

Charles Odhong’, Shimels Wassie, Suzanne van Dijk and Andreas Wilkes
Agriculture

Indian agriculture, air pollution, and public health in the age of COVID

co-authored by Alwin Keil
Agriculture

Independent Evaluation of AGRA’s Policy Project – The Micro Reforms for African Agribusiness (MIRA) Project – Executive summary

John Holtzman, Anke Reichhuber, Johannes Woelcke
Forestry | Private impact investments

Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on tropical timber production

Christian Held, Eva Meier-Landsberg
Agriculture

Further evidence that gender matters for GHG mitigation in the dairy sector

Andreas Wilkes, Shimels Eshete Wassie, Miriam Vorlaufer, Charles Odhong’, Suzanne van Dijk
Forestry | Climate

Entwicklung von Maßnahmen des Vertragsnaturschutzes im Kommunal- und Privatwald in Baden-Württemberg

Forestry | Climate

Die Waldfunktionen an Steilhängen sichern

Zehfuß, Marlène
Forestry | Agriculture | Climate

Considering climate risk information in policy planning

Bunafsha Mislimshoeva, Renuka Srinivasan, Jochen Statz, Anvar Homidov, Aliya Medebaeva, Makhbuba Kasymova