Solutions are sought throughout the world to counter land and forest conversion processes, as well as strategies for climate change mitigation. Payments for Environmental Service (PES) schemes, which are market-based incentives, are promoted as a possibility to enforce or support sustainable...

In Sub-Sahara Africa, adoption rates of improved crop varieties remain relatively low, which is partly due to farmers’ limited access to information. In smallholder settings, information often spreads through informal networks. Better understanding of such networks could potentially help to...

EFForTS is a collaborative research center (CRC) which focuses on Ecological and socioeconomic Functions of Tropical Lowland Rainforest Transformation Systems in Sumatra,Indonesia. The paper presents the common sampling frame of the socio economic sub-projects.The investigations and data...