Author Archives: Marion

February / 2024

Our proposal is submitted. Fingers crossed from here. So many plans and ideas 🙂 Optimising And Scaling agroforestry for Increasing climate risk reSilience in degraded rural agricultural landscapes (OASIS). This builds on our work in the Agrisys Tanzania and Correstor … Continue reading

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Agrisys Tanzania – In Arusha. December 2023

Agrisys Tanzania team Eleanor Moore (PhD candidate, climate change mitigation and adaptation through trees), Sheena Davis (PhD candidate: riparian restoration for birds and people), Will Ovenden (PhD candidate: soils, sugarcane growth and climate) and Marion (head of group) travelled to … Continue reading

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Agroforestry in Northumberland

Actions to increase tree cover in the North East of England ‘We have a proud and diverse farming community that already demonstrates a growing interest in agroforestry as one tool to be integrated into the management of their farm’ Catch … Continue reading

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We won – Established Career Academic Award

Engagement and Place Awards – Who we Are – Newcastle University (ncl.ac.uk) Thank you to Newcastle University for allowing us to present our work in the Kilombero Valley and for recognising the innovative collaboration between us and our partners, bringing … Continue reading

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Learn about sister project CORRESTOR.

The CORRESTOR project – How it started | CORRESTOR (ncl.ac.uk) In this project, we work with partners in the study landscape to understand the evidence base used in decision-making for the restoration process for wildlife corridors. Is the evidence base … Continue reading

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Project update 4

Our systems approach framework has been finalised and published (Frontiers | A Framework to Assess Forest-Agricultural Landscape Management for Socioecological Well-Being Outcomes (frontiersin.org)). We have translated above conceptualisation into a method framework for data collection and analysis, running a first … Continue reading

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Project update 3

And we also just completed the workshops with the government of Tanzania, at District Level. Discussing how trees can (and perhaps cannot) be integrated into the farmed landscape in the Northern Kilombero Valley. This is the first time that we … Continue reading

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Project update 2

We wanted to know how farmers think about their farms and the management of these farms. Do trees feature in their needs and priorities? If not: why not? If so, which tree species would they want? Where would they want … Continue reading

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Project update 1

The last months have been super busy for the Agrisys Tanzania team. The good news: we have finally completed the data collection in our ecological plots (totalling 142 now). That also means we have to be super fast processing all … Continue reading

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Plans for 2021

We are preparing for our workshops working with small-holder farmers in the Agrisys Tanzania landscape to identify pathways for tree restoration interventions on the farm, around the farms and elsewhere in the landscape. Target time: June 2021. Co-led by Eleanor … Continue reading

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