Restoration
Plantations and tree crop commodities
Enhanced nutrition and food security
Biodiversity, safeguarding and conservation
Nationally determined contributions
Bioenergy and biomaterials
Blue carbon and peatlands
Climate change adaptation
Landscape governance
Gender
Silvopastoral systems
Market-based agroforestry-forestry
Farm-forest policy interface
Agroecology
Livelihood trajectory modelling and assessment
Inclusive finance and business models
Innovating finance for sustainable landscapes
Public and private commitments to zero deforestation
Orphan tree crops
Effectiveness of approaches to sustainable supply
Quality of FTA research for development
Sentinel landscapes
Foresight
Seeds and seedlings delivery systems
Smallholder tree-crop commodities
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Pablo is a Principal Scientist at CIFOR based in Bogor, Indonesia. He is the Team Leader of “Value Chains, Finance and Investments” at CIFOR, and coordinates Flagship 3 “Sustainable Value Chains and Investments” under the CGIAR Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA). He holds a PhD in Geography from the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University, a Msc in Agricultural Economics and a BA in Sociology. His main research areas comprise the human dimensions of global environmental change, implications of trade and investment for forests and people, land and forests governance, landscape and agrarian change, regional development and land-use change in the tropics, and public-private governance arrangements for sustainable and inclusive value chains.
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Catherine Muthuri is the Regional Coordinator for the Eastern and Southern Africa (ESAf) region. She holds a PhD in Plant Ecophysiology from the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), Kenya, under a split-site scholarship at Nottingham University, UK, an MSc in Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, and a Bachelor of Education (Botany and Zoology) degree.
Catherine initially joined ICRAF in 2010 while on sabbatical from JKUAT. From there, she was recruited as a regular scientist under the Systems Theme. Prior to this, she was an Associate Professor at JKUAT and served for two terms as Chairperson of the Botany Department amongst other university roles.
She has been engaged in design, implementation and management of several projects notably the Trees for Food Security (T4FS) project funded by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) for which she serves as the Project Manager. Catherine is also the Leader of the ‘Trees Supporting Sustainable Intensification’ research cluster within the Livelihood Systems Flagship of the CGIAR research program (CRP) on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA).
Catherine is a recipient of the Elder of the Order of the Burning Spear (EBS), a Presidential Award, in recognition of her distinguished service to Kenya. She has served on several boards including the Kenya National Trading Cooperation and St. Francis Girls High School Mang’u, and is the ICRAF Director General’s representative on the Governing Council of the African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS). She also served as the Chair of ICRAF Staff Association from 2016 to 2019.
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Michael Allen Brady is a Principal Scientist at CIFOR and leads its Value Chains, Finance and Investment (VFI) team as well as FTA’s Flagship 3. He manages VFI programs in Asia, Africa and Latin America in achieving sustainable value chains and commodity supply in forest landscapes; developing business models that deliver improved social and environmental outcomes; and promoting responsible finance that contribute to advancing sustainable land and resource uses. Prior to joining CIFOR he was a senior forestry officer at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank Group. He has worked for over 30 years in Indonesia, and throughout East Asia and sub-Saharan Africa on forestry research, policy and management; forestry investment and finance; forest ecosystem dynamics and restoration; and sustainability standards and certification systems. He has a BSc in biology, a MSc in forest management and a PhD in tropical peat forest science.
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Jianchu Xu is a professor at Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is an internationally respected leading ethno-ecologist who works in coupled human environmental systems. His research includes investigation of early warning signals of global change, transboundary water governance, landscape restoration, ecosystem services and their resilience, agriculture, and integrative conservation.
Xu holds a PhD in Soil Science from China Agricultural University and has published over 100 papers in high-impact journals including Nature, Science, PNAS, Conservation Biology, Fungal Diversity, and Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution.
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Dr. Leigh Ann Winowiecki is a Soil Systems Scientist at World Agroforestry (ICRAF) based in Nairobi, Kenya. She has over 15 years of experience working in the global tropics on key issues around land restoration, sustainable agricultural intensification and soil carbon dynamics. Over the last decade she has had a critical role in developing and implementing ICRAF’s Land Degradation Surveillance Framework (LDSF), a systematic monitoring framework for assessing soil and land health. This methodology has been implemented in over 40 countries in collaboration with multiple partners, including national governments and international organizations and is currently used to track changes overtime and monitor restoration efforts across SSA. She has published widely on soil organic carbon, ecosystem services and land degradation across Africa, including a coherent set of widely cited publications on ecosystem health based on the LDSF dataset. She currently leads an IFAD-EU funded initiative on Restoration of Degraded Lands in East Africa and the Sahel (http://www.worldagroforestry.org/project/restoration-degraded-land-food-security-and-poverty-reduction-east-africa-and-sahel-taking) which implements the Research in Development approach to scale restoration options (http://www.worldagroforestry.org/output/full-brochure-2020-using-planned-comparisons-east-africa-and-sahel).
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Robin Sears is an associate with CIFOR’s Climate Change, Energy and Low-Carbon research program. Dr. Sears’ background is in tropical forestry with research interests that span production landscape mosaics, forest management and policy, and forestry education. She has been involved in CIFOR projects in Latin America, Bhutan and Peru, including Sloping Lands in Transition (SLANT), Financing for Small-scale Forestry Operations, and Toward the Modernization of Forestry Curricula in the American Tropics. She holds a doctorate in Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology from Columbia University in the City of New York, a Master of Forestry from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and a bachelor of science in Botany from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. In addition to her engagement with CIFOR, Robin collaborates with various institutions in Bhutan, Brazil, Peru and the U.S. both as a scholar and teacher. Prior to returning to research in 2014, Dr. Sears was the vice president for academic affairs of The School for Field Studies (SFS), an environmental study abroad program and had the privilege of working with faculty members in many countries.
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Dr Leimona has a PhD from Wageningen Agricultural University, Netherlands Overall coordinator of the Rewarding Upland Poor for Environmental Services (RUPES) Phase 2 project in Asia. A project coordinator and researcher specializing in environmental services and community-based natural resource management issues with over seven years of experience in policy analysis, program development, design and implementation, project management, project communication and institutional development. Develops and oversees pro-poor reward for environmental services initiatives in Asia with international donor organizations, regional government partners, research and civil society organizations. Experience includes natural resource governance and policy, environmental and social impact assessment, training program development, donor program coordination, and institutional capacity strengthening. Designs, plans, organizes and evaluates multi-disciplinary, multistakeholder activities. Monitors and evaluates project performance toward strategic, programmatic and financial objectives.
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Meine van Noordwijk is a Distinguished Research Fellow at World Agroforestry. He joined the
organization in 1993. For many years Dr van Noordwijk guided the global integration of the
Centre’s science and (co-)led ICRAF’s global research program on environmental services. He has
published on issues across a wide range of scales, from roots interacting with soil to global
environmental policies and their national implementation. He also is professor of agroforestry at
Wageningen University, The Netherlands. From 2002 to 2008 he was Regional Coordinator for
Southeast Asia. Before joining the Centre, Meine was a senior research officer in the Root
Ecology Section at the DLO Institute for Soil Fertility Research in Haren, the Netherlands,
concentrating on models of the relationships between soil fertility, nutrient use efficiency and root
development of crops and trees. He also worked for two years as a lecturer in botany and
ecology at the University of Juba in Sudan. Meine has a PhD in Agricultural Science from the
University of Wageningen, the Netherlands and an MSc in Biology from the Rijksuniversiteit
Utrecht, the Netherlands.
