Papers, Reports and Articles

The work of the People and Plants network can be found through links in the biographies in Who We Are. Below are a few recent People and Plants articles and papers.

Biodiversity, Forests and Human Health

  • Cecil Konijnendijk, Dikshya Devkota, Stephanie Mansourian & Christoph Wildburger (eds.), (2023). Forests and Trees for Human Health: Pathways, Impacts, Challenges and Response Options. A Global Assessment Report. IUFRO World Series Volume 41. Vienna. 232p. Download PDF.

Conservation, Science and Technology Policy

  • Cooper, H.D., Mumba, M., Dhyani, S., Laird, S., Wynberg, R. et al. (2023) Priorities for progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 15 ‘Life on land’. Nature Ecology & Evolution. Download PDF.

  • Laird, S. & Wynberg, R. (2022) Access and Benefit Sharing and Biodiversity Conservation. In: Access and Benefit Sharing of Genetic Resources, Information and Traditional Knowledge. Routledge. Download PDF.

  • Humphries, F., Laird, S., Wynberg, R., Morrison, C. Lawson, C. and Kolesnikova, A. (2021). Survey of access and benefit-sharingcountry measures accommodating the distinctive features of genetic resources for food and agriculture and associatedtraditional knowledge. Rome, FAO on behalf of the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. Download PDF.

  • Wynberg, R., Andersen, R., Laird, S., Kusena, K., Prip, C .and Westengen, O.T. (2021) Farmers’ Rights and Digital Sequence Information: Crisis or Opportunity to Reclaim Stewardship Over Agrobiodiversity? Front. Plant Sci. 12:686728. Download PDF.

  • Laird, S.; Wynberg, R.; Rourke, M.; Humphries, F.; Ruiz Muller M. & Lawson, C. (2020). Rethink the expansion of access and benefit sharing. Science 367 (6483). 13 March 2020.
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  • Laird, S. & Wynberg, R.; with Iranzadeh, A. & Sliva Kooser, A. (2018). A Fact-Finding and Scoping Study on Digital Sequence Information on Genetic Resources in the Context of the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Nagoya Protocol. The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity.
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  • Wynberg, R. & Laird, S. (2017). Fast Science and Sluggish Policy: the Herculean Task of Regulating Biodiscovery. Trends in Biotechnology 36 (1).

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  • Laird, S. & Wynberg, R. (2016). Locating Responsible Research and Innovation Within Access and Benefit Sharing Space of the Convention on Biological Diversity: the Challenge of Emerging Technologies. NanoEthics: Studies of New and Emerging Technologies 10 (2).
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Non-Timber Forest Products and Community Forest Management

  • Laird, S.; Awono, A., Okia, C., et al. (2022) Social and environmental transformation of refugee and hosting community landscapes in Central and Eastern Africa. Occasional Paper 229. Bogor, Indonesia: CIFOR. Download English and French PDF.

  • Sierra-Huelsz, J.A.; Gerez Fernández, P.; López Binnqüist, C.; Guibrunet, L.; Ellis, E.A. (2020). Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Community Forest Management: Evolution and Limitations in Mexican Forest Law, Policy and Practice. Forests 11 (403).

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  • García-Hernández, M.A. & Toledo-Aceves, T. (2020). Is there potential in elevational assisted migration for the endangered Magnolia vovidesii? Journal for Nature Conservation 53 (125782).

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  • Shanley, P. (1999). To market, to market. Natural History, 10. Download PDF.

  • Shanley, P.; Pierce, A.; Laird, S.; López Binnqüist, C. & Guariguata, M. (2016). From Lifelines to Livelihoods: Non-Timber Forest Products into the Twenty-First Century. In: Pancel, L. and Kohl, M. (eds). Tropical Forestry Handbook. Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 2713-2760.

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  • Wynberg, R.; Laird, S.; van Niekerk, J. & Kozanayi, W. (2015). Formalization of the Natural Product Trade in Southern Africa: Unintended Consequences and Policy Blurring in Biotrade and Bioprospecting. Society and Natural Resources 28 (5): 559-574.
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Traditional Foodways

  • Downs, S.; Ahmed, S.; Fanzo, J.; Herforth, A. (2020). Food Environment Typology: Advancing an Expanded Definition, Framework, and Methodological Approach for Improved Characterization of Wild, Cultivated, and Built Food Environments toward Sustainable Diets. Foods 9 (532).

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  • Smith, E.; Ahmed, S.; Byker Shanks, C.; Dupuis, V.; Running Crane, M.; Eggers, M.; Pierre, M.; Flagg, K. (2019). Contribution of Wild Foods to Food Security and Cultural Values on the Flathead Reservation of the Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes in the Context of Climate Change. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development (Special Issue: Indigenous Food Sovereignty of North America).

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  • Luo, B.; Li, F.; Ahmed, S.; Long, C. (2019). Diversity and Use of Medicinal Plants for Soup Making in Traditional Diets of the Hakka in West Fujian Province, China. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 28 (60).

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Research Ethics

  • Shanley, P. & López Binnqüist, C. (2009). Out of the Loop: Why Research Rarely Reaches Policy Makers and the Public and What Can be Done. Biotropica 41 (5): 535–544.
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