About the Blog

This is a collaborative blog about tropical forests and related issues including: traditional ecological knowledge, climate change mitigation and adaptation, food supply chains, social development, governance, behavior change, wellbeing, livelihoods and cultural anthropology. Please be in touch if you want to write a post and collaborate on ideas.

Blog main writer: Maria Fernanda Gebara

Blog editor: Erin O’Connell

About Me

I am a social and environmental scientist from Brazil with more than 10 years of experience in the Brazilian Amazon. My focus of research is on policies and measures to reduce deforestation and forest degradation; behavior change; institutional bricolage; indigenous knowledge and practices; local inclusion; rural politics; discourses; governmentality and benefit-sharing.