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SUMMARY:Reconciling conservation and development at the forest agricultura
 l nexus: insights from the forested tropics - Rachel Carmenta\, Frank Jack
 son Research Fellow\, Wolfson College and University of Cambridge Conserva
 tion Research Institute (UCCRI)
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DESCRIPTION:Securing the multiple benefits of forest conservation while me
 eting imperatives of food security represents a leading global environment
 al challenge. Numerous attempts at interventions that deliver to multiple 
 goals have been implemented across the tropics and met various success. I 
 will draw on my previous research\, and introduce ongoing research\, that 
 explores this variable performance at the forest-agricultural nexus.\n\nA 
 leading global environmental challenge concerns how best to secure forest 
 conservation while meeting the imperatives of food security\, climate chan
 ge mitigation and delivering to the well-being of local people. The forest
 ed tropics represent a region of rapidand drastic land use change\, driven
  largely by agricultural expansion. Deforestationand fire associated with 
 this land use change represent leading causes ofglobal environmental chang
 e. Numerous attempts at interventions that deliver tomultiple goals have b
 een implemented across the tropics and met varioussuccess. Understanding t
 he variable performance of such policies is a researchtopic of much debate
 . I will draw on my previous research in the BrazilianAmazon\, and the pea
 t swamp forests of Sumatra’s oil palm frontier\, toillustrate the import
 ance of integrated approaches to reconciling competinginterests. Finally\,
  I will introduce ongoing research set to explore which interventions perf
 orm better at the forest\, agricultural nexus.
LOCATION:Old Combination Room (OCR)\, Wolfson College
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