Kristina Marquardt

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate how REDD+ has been downscaled into the community forestry context and with what implications for CF governance, and they argue that the technical and financial logic of REDD+, has had implications for community forestry governance, risks of co-opting local voices and has contributed to an ongoing commercialisation of community forests, at the cost of the livelihoods of the poorest people.

TL;DR: This article explored how changes in the agrarian economy in the Nepalese mid-Hills have had locally specific effects on forest area, agricultural practices and ecosystem service provision and use.

TL;DR: It is proposed that attention should be given to the nature of the disturbance that may alter forest ecology, the forms of regeneration that follow, and the governance context within which this takes place.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identified soil-related ecosystem services (ES) needed for, and enhanced by, productive swidden systems from the farmer's perspective, and the central elements described in farmers' own strategies for managing soilrelated ES were fallow management for biomass production and crop diversity, factors identified as central to future ES management work in established agricultural areas in Amazonia.

TL;DR: Many smallholders in the Amazon employ swidden (slash-and-burn) farming systems in which forest or forest fallows are the primary source of natural soil enrichment as discussed by the authors.