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Overview

Christine Padoch is affiliated with the New York Botanical Garden in the United States and has contributed to research primarily situated within the fields of Social Sciences and Nursing. Their work is distributed across subfields including Nutrition and Dietetics, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science, Global and Planetary Change, and General Health Professions.

Their research encompasses topics such as Child Nutrition and Water Access, Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare, Migration and Labor Dynamics, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, as well as Indigenous Health and Education.

Christine Padoch has published articles in venues such as World Development and The Botanical Review. Two recent papers include:

  • Can rural outmigration improve household food security? Empirical evidence from Ethiopia (2020, World Development)
  • Chuck Peters (2021, The Botanical Review)

Frequently collaborating with other researchers, Christine Padoch has worked with Degnet Abebaw, Assefa Admassie, Habtemariam Kassa, and Miguel Pinedo-Vásquez.

Best Publications

  • Trends, drivers and impacts of changes in swidden cultivation in tropical forest-agriculture frontiers: A global assessment

    Nathalie van Vliet;Ole Mertz;Andreas Heinimann;Tobias Langanke

  • Appreciating Agrodiversity: A Look at the Dynamism and Diversity of Indigenous Farming Practices

    Harold Brookfield;Christine Padoch

  • Swidden Change in Southeast Asia: Understanding Causes and Consequences

    Ole Mertz;Christine Padoch;Jefferson Fox;R. A. Cramb

  • Urban Forest and Rural Cities: Multi-sited Households, Consumption Patterns, and Forest Resources in Amazonia

    Christine Padoch;Eduardo Brondizio;Sandra Costa;Miguel Pinedo-Vasquez

  • Swidden-Fallow Agroforestry in the Peruvian Amazon

    William M. Denevan;Christine Padoch

  • Conservation of Neotropical forests: working from traditional resource use.

    Kent Hubbard Redford;Christine Padoch

  • Seed exchange networks for agrobiodiversity conservation. A review

    Marco Pautasso;Guntra Aistara;Adeline Barnaud;Sophie Caillon

  • Trees for life: the ecosystem service contribution of trees to food production and livelihoods in the tropics.

    James Reed;James Reed;Josh van Vianen;Samson Foli;Jessica Clendenning

  • Saving slash-and-burn to save biodiversity.

    Christine Padoch;Miguel Pinedo-Vasquez

  • Carbon outcomes of major land-cover transitions in SE Asia: great uncertainties and REDD+ policy implications

    Alan D. Ziegler;Jacob Phelps;Jia Qi Yuen;Edward L. Webb

  • The house gardens of Santa Rosa: diversity and variability in an Amazonian agricultural system.

    Christine Padoch;Wil de Jong

  • Consequences of Swidden Transitions for Crop and Fallow Biodiversity in Southeast Asia

    Kanok Rerkasem;Deborah Lawrence;Christine Padoch;Dietrich Schmidt-Vogt

  • The Demise of Swidden in Southeast Asia? Local Realities and Regional Ambiguities

    Christine Padoch;Kevin Coffey;Ole Mertz;Stephen J. Leisz

  • High-yield oil palm expansion spares land at the expense of forests in the Peruvian Amazon

    Víctor H Gutiérrez-Vélez;Ruth DeFries;Miguel Pinedo-Vásquez;Miguel Pinedo-Vásquez;María Uriarte

  • Amazonian agroforestry: a market-oriented system in Peru

    C. Padoch;J. Chota Inuma;W. De Jong;J. Unruh

  • Managing biodiversity in agricultural ecosystems

    Devra I. Jarvis;Christine Padoch;H. D. Cooper

  • Post-boom logging in Amazonia.

    Miguel Pinedo-Vasquez;Daniel J. Zarin;Kevin Coffey;Christine Padoch

  • Fads, funding, and forgetting in three decades of conservation.

    Kent H. Redford;Christine Padoch;Terry Sunderland

  • Marketing of non-timber forest products in western Amazonia: general observations and research priorities.

    C. Padoch;D.C. Nepstad;S. Schwartzman

  • Cultivating biodiversity: understanding, analysing and using agricultural diversity.

    Harold Brookfield;Christine Padoch;Helen Parsons;Michael Stocking

  • Borneo in transition: people, forests, conservation, and development.

    Christine Padoch;Nancy Lee Peluso

  • Conservation of Neotropical Forests: Working from Traditional Resource Use.

    T. D. Pennington;K. H. Redford;C. Padoch

  • Insight, part of a Special Feature on The influence of human demography and agriculture on natural systems in the Neotropics Urban Forest and Rural Cities: Multi-sited Households, Consumption Patterns, and Forest Resources in Amazonia

    Christine Padoch;Eduardo Brondizio;Sandra Costa;Miguel Pinedo-Vasquez

Frequent Co-Authors

Ole Mertz
Ole Mertz University of Copenhagen
Terry Sunderland
Terry Sunderland University of British Columbia
Ruth S. DeFries
Ruth S. DeFries Columbia University
María Uriarte
María Uriarte Columbia University
Alan D. Ziegler
Alan D. Ziegler National University of Singapore
Eduardo S. Brondizio
Eduardo S. Brondizio Indiana University
Jefferson Fox
Jefferson Fox East-West Center
Kent H. Redford
Kent H. Redford University of New England
Chris Sandbrook
Chris Sandbrook University of Cambridge
Lisa M. Goddard
Lisa M. Goddard Columbia University

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