Research Articles

Programme research articles:

• Pradhan N, Ibáñez I, Chhatre A, Duddu A, Fischer HW, Newton P, Oldekop JA, Wilson SJ, Agrawal A. 2026. Advancing biodiversity through poverty solutions. Nature Sustainability, in press

• Khuu DT, Oldekop JA, Hanson JO, Pritchard R. 2026. Socially informed conservation priorities in Vietnam reveal major overlaps between biodiversity protection and human needs. Communications Earth & Environment, in press

• York NDL, Namaido W, Enns C,  Bresaglio B, Old Kaunga M, Larpei J, Mukiri V, Oreheya J, Silole V, Oldekop JA. 2026. Biocultural conservation as an alternative pathway for conservation: A case study of the Inclusive Conservation Initiative in northern Kenya. People & Nature, in press

• Chervier C, Nofyanza S, West TAP, Sills E. 2026. Who gets credit for reduced deforestation? Evaluating additionality in subnational jurisdictional REDD+ under national policy reforms in Indonesia. Ecological Economics, 247: 109033

• Govindarajulu D, Foster T, Pritchard R, Baumann M, Kümmerle T, Morey B, Parmar A, Chhatre A, Oldekop JA. 2026. Contrasting patterns of deforestation and reforestation in India’s tropical dry woodlands. Environmental Research Letters, 21: 094001

• Kabutey-Ongor M…, Oldekop JA. 2026. A horizon scan of global issues on forests and livelihoods for 2026. Forest Policy and Economics, 185: 103738

• Castle SE, Newton P, Oldekop JA, Baylis K, Miller DC. 2026. Global forest dataset incongruence creates high uncertainties for conservation, climate, and development policy. One Earth, 9: 101558

• Hernández-Montilla M, Pritchard R, Foster T, Oldekop JA. 2026. Mapping the rights-implementation gap in Forest Landscape Restoration: evidence from Mexico. Restoration Ecology, e70351

• Hernández-Montilla M…, Oldekop JA. 2025 Forwarding forest restoration: Seven key socio-ecological issues for advancing forest restoration in a world in flux. People and Nature, 8: 569-581

• Oldekop JA, Devenish K, Alencar L, Erbaugh JT,  Hernández-Montilla M, Jaiswal S, Khuu D, Mansourian S, Meyfroidt P, Nofyanza S, Pritchard R. 2025 Sustainable Forest Transitions: a new analytical framework to understand social and ecological outcomes of reforestation. One Earth, 8: 101248

• Hajjar R, Oldekop JA, Toto R, Alencar L, Bell S, Devenish K, Khuu DT, Hernández-Montilla M, Jung S, Nofyanza S, Sapkota M. 2025.  Data challenges in socioeconomic impact assessments of conservation regimes. Conservation Biology, 39: e14457

• Mansourian S, Djenontin I, Elias M, Oldekop JA, Derkyi MAA, Kull C, Pacheco P. 2025.  Ecosystem restoration centred in people. Restoration Ecology, e70049

• Mansourian S, Djenontin I, Elias M, Oldekop JA, Derkyi MAA, Kull C, Pacheco P. 2025. Situating the ‘human’ in forest landscape restoration. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 12: 1522979

• Alencar L, Sobral Escada MI, Campana Camargo JL. 2025.  Long-term landscape structure change in contrasting land occupation strategies of the Brazilian Amazon. Land Use Policy, 150: 107442

• Hall CM, den Braber B, Vansant E, Oldekop JA, Das U, Fielding D, Kamoto JFM, Vang Rasmussen L.  2025. Trees on farms improve dietary quality in rural Malawi. Conservation Letters,18: e13061

• den Braber B, Oldekop JA, Devenish K, Godar J, Nolte C, Schmoeller M, Evans KL. 2024. Socio-economic and environmental trade-offs in Amazonian protected areas and Indigenous territories revealed by assessing competing land uses. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 8: 1482-1492 

• Vansant E, den Braber B, Hall CM, Kamoto JFM, Reiner F, Oldekop JA, Vang Rasmussen L. 2024. Food-sourcing from on-farm trees mediates positive relationships between tree cover and dietary quality in Malawi. Nature Food, 5: 661-666

• Mansourian S, Derkyi M, Djenontin I, Elias M, Oldekop J, Pacheco P, Burns J, Diederichsen A, Kleine M, Vallauri D, and Walder B. (2024). Human Dimensions of Forest Landscape Restoration, IUFRO, Vienna

• Govindarajulu D, Pritchard R, Chhatre A, Foster T, Oldekop JA. (2023) Rights based approaches to forest landscape restoration; learning from the Indian forest policy experience. Forest Policy and Economics, 157: 10307