Current projects
Contacted: Managing biodiversity impacts in global supply chains
Co-authored scientific papers
Re-framing the soy-meat food system: how value chain governance could be leading to a sustainability gridlock (submitted)
Putting species back on the map: devising a robust method for quantifying the biodiversity impacts of commodity-driven land conversion (submitted)
Linking drivers of agricultural trade to on-the-ground impacts on global biodiversity (in prep)
Identifying opportunities and barriers to implement the zero deforestation based on mental model mapping of stakeholders (in prep)
projects
Burgeoning global demand for commodities such as soy and beef is causing major changes in land use and threatening biodiversity. A shared responsibility for impacts and risks may need to emerge before soy producers, traders, meat producers and retailers can work together towards shared solutions for sustainable supply chain.
I am facilitating a collaboration between the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, WWF, the Luc Hoffmann Institute and other partners to develop new tools to help stakeholders assess the biodiversity impacts of soy supply chains, starting with the Cerrado in Brazil. The new collaboration is also integrating how stakeholders view impacts and shared responsibilities for impacts.
With partners, I am developing a game entitled SharedRespoSoy, which explores dynamics and interactions of deforestation in the Amazon and Cerrado as a result of soy expansion. The aim is to play the game with stakeholders to explore complexity in the soy value chain, the perspectives of different value chain actors, and for these stakeholders to use the game to explore future soy sustainability strategies and scenarios.
Mining and natural resource management
Mining and biodiversity offsets: A transparent and science-based approach to measure “no-net-loss”. Journal of Environmental Management 143, 61-70
Did we have an impact? : Wresting the complexity of evaluation for organisations at the boundary of science, policy and practice. Conservation Biology in press
What constitutes eco-labels credibility license to operate? (submitted)
projects
I have been working on mining - natural resource management conflicts for many years. Traditionally, mining solutions for sustainability have been production-centred aiming for the local license to operate. I am working with partners to develop projects to shift sustainability practices towards the entire production-consumption systems, exploring and facilitating participatively towards more in-depth solutions with entire supply chain actors to achieve the license to operate across scale.
Monitoring & Evaluation
Most Monitoring & Evaluation systems are designed to quantitatively measure how a program is causing desired outcomes. Evidence suggests that this approach is often problematic for many reasons: desired outcomes are often unrealistic, such approaches do not shed sufficient light over the attribution versus contribution of the program, critically they are not designed to assess the Theory of Change and its assumptions, and hence they do not support learning on design and implementation.
I am working with partners to develop projects that evaluate programme through the use games. Games allow explicit conversations with key stakeholders over the Theory of Change of the programme. We use the games to discuss impacts and assumptions of the programme in order to build shared understanding of the program design and impacts.
Practice Areas
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Agriculture
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Mining
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Wildlife trade
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Wildlife conflicts
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Natural Resource Management
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Certification and design
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Energy
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Resources & Infrastructure
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Monitoring & Evaluation