ABOUT THE WRITER
Monica Evans is a writer and community development practitioner based in Aotearoa New Zealand. Since completing her Masters in Development Studies in 2010, she has worked on environmental and community development projects in NZ, the Pacific and Latin America. She's particularly passionate about participation, creativity and well-being, and has a keen interest in ecology and sustainability. She lives in a small town on New Zealand's wild West Coast, where she teaches dance, grows vegetables and tends to her pet alpacas.
BY THIS WRITER
News
- 1 Aug 2018
Back to the future: Sketching out oil palm scenarios to 2035
Mapping impacts of land use change for ecosystem services in Kalimantan
News
- 25 Jun 2018
Benefit-sharing mechanisms: Barking up the wrong tree?
New framework helps evaluate ways of distributing benefits from REDD+ initiatives
News
- 25 Jun 2018
Benefit-sharing mechanisms: Barking up the wrong tree?
News
- 29 May 2018
Progress on the process of managing landscapes
An update on the concept and development of the 'landscape approach'
News
- 29 May 2018
Progress on the process of managing landscapes
News
- 28 May 2018
Are deforestation-free commodities too good to be true?
Deep down in supply chains, zero deforestation commitments look different than on paper
News
- 28 May 2018
Are deforestation-free commodities too good to be true?
Photo Essay
- 16 May 2018
Oil palm for the people
In the Brazilian Amazon, is the commodity crop’s bad reputation deserved?
Photo Essay
- 16 May 2018
Oil palm for the people
News
- 19 Apr 2018
Fishing with a new research method nets bountiful insights
To better understand fisheries, scientists applied a review method from the medical world – to deep results
News
- 20 Mar 2018
Plenty in common
Private investment in community-owned resources is a little-explored pathway to sustainable development
News
- 20 Mar 2018
Plenty in common
Feature
- 14 Mar 2018
Oil palm landscapes: Sketching out sustainable futures
New methods for mapping and planning in Colombia