What makes data collection memorable? And which insights from our recent photo elicitation survey in #Rwanda will stick with the data collection team? Find out by reading their first-hand stories in this blogpost: t1p.de/7pe80 With @plieningerlab.bsky.social from @agrarunigoe.bsky.social

People and Nature is seeking proposals to the Special Feature “Halfway through the UN Decade: taking stock of social-ecological restoration”. Submissions will be open until 30th June - find all further information & the submission form here: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

🌿 Call for Proposals: Special Feature in People and Nature 🌿 "Halfway through the UN Decade: Taking stock of social-ecological restoration" We're looking for bold, critical, and constructive contributions that forge new pathways and guide the next years of the UN Decade. 🔗 Details: t1p.de/6woms

Olive, walnut, and almond are cultural keystone species for the Amazigh communities in Morocco’s High Atlas Mountains. Knowing this can enhance biocultural conservation. Read the article by @mobarakchaima.bsky.social, @laurakmoch.bsky.social, @plieningerlab.bsky.social and coauthors: t.ly/3Hc4J

‘Nomadic Peoples’ 29.1 is live – a special issue edited by W. Ning, S. Joshi and Y. Shaoliang on ‘Pastoral Resilience and Transformation in the Hindu Kush Himalaya’. NP is #openaccess in 2025 by #subscribetoopen; read it here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpnp/cu... #pastoralism #himalaya

📣 New post out on People • Nature • Landscapes: t1p.de/g3f2m Sukanya Basu reflects on her recently completed #PhD journey and what's next in the UK. Read on for tales of #tree friends, discovering #food paradise, and urban blue infrastructure #research in megacities of #India. #AcademicSky

📣 Welcome to the Focali annual meeting 2025! ⏰ 13 March, 9.30-16.30 📍 In central Stockholm 👉 Read more on the event page and sign up here: ui.ungpd.com/Events/0485a... 👉 Check out the call for talks and submit yours: ui.ungpd.com/Surveys/c36c...

🧐How are biological and human cultural diversity interlinked and changing over time? Emmeline Topp addressed these questions through oral history interviews in three contrasting regions of Germany. Read the latest on People • Nature • Landscapes for more on her fascinating results: t1p.de/4sjk4

🌿💧Agricultural intensification, urbanisation, water conservation, and flood protection change the #landscapes of peri-urban #Shanghai. 🧐How does this shift affect different residents, and their ecosystem services access? Find out by reading Zheyi Xia's blogpost: medium.com/people-natur...

#Agroforestry contributes to dietary diversity through providing food, income & energy and supporting agroecological processes. An excellent first phd paper by Khant Sandar Htet about 3 native trees leading to dietary diversification in Myanmar. With @laurakmoch.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1007/s109...

📣New article out in Landscape Ecology: t1p.de/jgbll Khant Sandar Htet discusses the importance of #agroforestry in #Myanmar's #drylands. Toddy palms, jujube and thanakha #trees enhance farmers' dietary diversity along four interlinked paths. @plieningerlab.bsky.social #LandscapeEcology #food

It drives me mad how often I need to repeat that improving people's knowledge/awareness of sustainability challenges WILL NOT per se translate in more sustainable behaviour. That's, unfortunately, not how people function. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Hi bluesky! Connect with us for land system science news, jobs, events, and more. PS what is a tweet called here? Check out our land system science starter pack! go.bsky.app/Q8L1uKg

Bumblebee nests are hard to find, yet they need protection from spring through fall to allow the colony to complete their life cycles. Dogs to the rescue! Texas officials have trained dogs to sniff out nests so that they can be protected and studied for conservation purposes. 🧪 tinyurl.com/5db52zva

📣New article out in Urban Forestry & Urban Greening We explore diverging values and management options for a large peri-urban #agroforestry system - the #Maâmora forest in #Morocco. Led by @mrio-torralba.bsky.social with @plieningerlab.bsky.social, Emmeline Topp and Fouad Mounir. t1p.de/1jsqq

Do you like🧀? Or care about 🌿 landscapes and #certification? 👉 Check out the latest post on our People, Nature, Landscape Blog. @lukaseff.bsky.social discusses geographical indication labels and the sustainability of landscape-based #food products in 🇩🇪, 🇬🇷, and 🇪🇸. t1p.de/6tvzb

Land management within #planetaryboundaries is critical for addressing the land-use crisis, finds new PIK / UNCCD report. Land #degradation drives biodiversity loss, worsens climate impacts, and threatens agriculture, food security & livelihoods all over the world. www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...

Let's celebrate 🎉 It's the International Day of Forests 🌿🌳 To mark this occasion, our team shares stories from our forest-related research. Think forests in Lower Saxony 🍂, Mangroves 🍃, and Rwandan Forest Restoration 👇 t1p.de/5rjr9 #InternationalDayofForests #InternationalForestDay #ForestDay

📣Mega-city lakes and urban foraging - what's the link? 🦀🌿💧Find out in Sukanya Basu's latest post on our research group's People • Nature • Landscapes blog: medium.com/people-natur... #geography @plieningerlab.bsky.social

Klimanotstand in Süditalien, teilen Spaniens, Algerien, Marokko und Tunesien. Dürre auf Sizilien. Marokko im 6. Dürrejahr, mit 37° im Februar. Und hier protestieren die Bauern für billigeren Diesel.. 🤦 www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

Kicking Native People Off Their Land Is a Horrible Way to “Save the Planet” 🌍 www.nytimes.com/2024/02/20/o...

📣 New paper alert! with @plieningerlab.bsky.social and Aimad Bou-Lahriss. We appraise rural people's plight with water scarcity and the promise of dryland tree planting as a nature-based solution to High Atlas communities' drought-related struggles. Open access - please share widely. #geography

Friends, I wrote up a quick guide to getting started on Bluesky for folks who are used to old Science Twitter. Please share it with your folks who are joining. And please let me know if I missed anything or got anything wrong. 🧪 www.southernfriedscience.com/bluesky-is-n...

What a great team of colleagues to be around, at the @plieningerlab.bsky.social 🙌 We spent three intense days with reflections on our landscape research, biocultural approaches, and scicom strategy last week. Thanks to Staatsdomäne Frankenhausen for hosting us - we enjoyed the ❄️ and tasty food 🧑‍🍳

Our great colleague Dr. Mario Torralba recently commenced a new position at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam In the latest post on our research groups People • Nature • Landscapes blog he looks back on his postdoc years in the @plieningerlab.bsky.social

„Schenk doch mal ein Lächeln“ jetzt steht der Wunschbaum in unserer Bezirkszentralbibliothek. Hier könnt ihr Geschenkwünsche geflüchteter Kinder erfüllen! xhain @baxhain.bsky.social mehr Infos hier: www.berlin.de/ba-friedrich...

"Transforming the Mediterranean region through agroforestry: Large scale restoration of degraded lands by overcoming the socioeconomic & sociocultural barriers for agroforestry adoption". We're proud to be part of this new EU-PRIMA-funded project, coordinated by Laura Armengot. More infos soon!

Sustainable coffee farming with AI-powered technology for smallholders! New blog to explore the potential of machine vision in #deforestation -free #coffee @plieningerlab.bsky.social @laurakmoch.bsky.social #SustainableAgriculture #CoffeeTech #EUDR medium.com/people-natur...

Need your daily coffee fix? We've got you covered ☕👍 @bunncoffee.bsky.social discusses machine vision as an enabler for smallholders' access to the EU coffee market. Read the full post on our research group's People • Nature • Landscapes blog: medium.com/people-natur...

📢 Take a look at the latest post on our research group's People • Nature • Landscapes blog. Karen Heikkilä reflects on the indigenous heritage and fascinating swidden and agroforestry practices of the Orang Asli people of Peninsular Malaysia 🌱🌾🌿 #geosky #indigisky #greensky

Visit our People • Nature • Landscapes blog for a new post by Lauren Schnor. She reflects on highlights of the GEWISOLA conference — “Sustainable Food Systems and Land Use Change” — from a social-ecological perspective. That's peatlands, bison and powerful maps 🦬 🗺️👇 medium.com/people-natur...

Read the latest post on our research group's #PeopleNatureLandscapes blog on the occasion of #WorldCoffeeDay My colleague Christian Bunn discusses pitfalls of the #EUDR for shade-grown coffee and #smallholder farmers #biodiversity #deforestation #agroforestry medium.com/people-natur...