Christine Padoch

ABOUT THE WRITER
Christine Padoch is an anthropologist and currently the Director of the Forests and Livelihoods Programme. She has spent more than 35 years carrying out research on smallholder patterns of forest management, agriculture, and agroforestry in the humid tropics, principally in Amazonia and Southeast Asia. She recently came to CIFOR from the New York Botanical Garden where she was the Matthew Calbraith Perry Curator of Economic Botany. Christine Padoch holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University.
BY THIS WRITER
News - 6 Aug 2012
Soybeans and forests in Brazil’s Arc of Deforestation: A temporary truce?
Researchers highlight possibility of maintaining reduced deforestation amid Brazil’s booming agricultural economy.
News - 6 Aug 2012
Soybeans and forests in Brazil’s Arc of Deforestation: A temporary truce?
Analysis - 10 Feb 2012
On the Menu: Forests
A special issue of the International Forestry Review highlights forgotten importance of forests.
Analysis - 10 Feb 2012
On the Menu: Forests
10 Feb 2012
On the Menu: Forests
BOGOR, Indonesia (10 February, 2012)_For almost as long as our species has lived on earth, we have fed ourselves directly from the bounty of forests, grasslands...
10 Feb 2012
On the Menu: Forests
Analysis - 18 Dec 2011
Western Amazon in the grip of a “perfect (fire)storm”
Social, environmental and economic forces turn up the heat on Peruvian Amazon.
Analysis - 18 Dec 2011
Western Amazon in the grip of a “perfect (fire)storm”
30 Sep 2011
Fewer Farms = More Forest = Less Biodiversity?
BOGOR, Indonesia (30 September, 2011)_If clearing tropical forests for agriculture is a major cause of the ongoing catastrophic decline in biodiversity,...
30 Sep 2011
Fewer Farms = More Forest = Less Biodiversity?