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Meine van Noordwijk

Meine van Noordwijk

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
87
Citations
28468
World Ranking
555
National Ranking
1

Overview

Meine van Noordwijk is affiliated with the World Agroforestry Centre in Kenya. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a significant focus on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Forestry, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Plant Science.

Their work covers a range of topics including Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Oil Palm Production and Sustainability, Agroforestry and silvopastoral systems, Forest Management and Policy, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy, and Economic and Environmental Valuation.

Meine van Noordwijk has contributed to numerous publications, with a large number appearing in these venues:

  • Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
  • Land
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
  • Agroforestry Systems

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Meine van Noordwijk include:

  • Diverse values of nature for sustainability, 2023, Nature
  • Plural valuation of nature for equity and sustainability: Insights from the Global South, 2020, Global Environmental Change
  • Summary for policymakers of the methodological assessment of the diverse values and valuation of nature of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), 2022, UEA Digital Repository (University of East Anglia)
  • Use your power for good: plural valuation of nature - the Oaxaca statement, 2020, Global Sustainability
  • Soil carbon stocks in Indonesian (agro) forest transitions: Compaction conceals lower carbon concentrations in standard accounting, 2020, Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Kurniatun Hairiah
  • Rika Ratna Sari
  • Beria Leimona
  • Unai Pascual
  • David N. Barton

Meine van Noordwijk also has contributed to book publications. One such example is their contribution to a book published by FAO eBooks titled "State and outlook of agroforestry in ASEAN," published in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Reducing uncertainty in the use of allometric biomass equations for predicting above-ground tree biomass in mixed secondary forests.

    Quirine M Ketterings;Richard Coe;Meine van Noordwijk;Yakub Ambagau

  • Agricultural soils as a sink to mitigate CO2 emissions

    K Paustian;O Andren;H.H Janzen;R Lal

  • Trees, forests and water : Cool insights for a hot world

    David Ellison;Cindy E. Morris;Cindy E. Morris;Bruno Locatelli;Douglas Sheil

  • Biodiversity and ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes: Are we asking the right questions?

    M.J. Swift;A.-M.N. Izac;M. van Noordwijk

  • Climate change: linking adaptation and mitigation through agroforestry

    Louis V. Verchot;Meine Van Noordwijk;Serigne Kandji;Thomas P. Tomich

  • Boundary work for sustainable development: Natural resource management at the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR).

    William C. Clark;Thomas P. Tomich;Meine van Noordwijk;David Guston

  • Global Tree Cover and Biomass Carbon on Agricultural Land: The contribution of agroforestry to global and national carbon budgets

    Robert J. Zomer;Henry Neufeldt;Jianchu Xu;Antje Ahrends

  • Agroforestry solutions to address food security and climate change challenges in Africa

    Cheikh Mbow;Meine Van Noordwijk;Eike Luedeling;Henry Neufeldt

  • Global change and multi-species agroecosystems : Concepts and issues

    John Vandermeer;Meine van Noordwijk;Jo Anderson;Chin Ong

  • Yield gaps in oil palm: A quantitative review of contributing factors

    Lotte Suzanne Woittiez;Mark T. van Wijk;Maja Slingerland;Meine van Noordwijk;Meine van Noordwijk

  • Soil carbon dynamics in the humid tropical forest zone

    Meine van Noordwijk;Carlos Cerri;Paul L. Woomer;Kusumo Nugroho

  • Root distribution of trees and crops: competition and/or complementarity

    M. van Noordwijk;G. Lawson;A. Soumaré;J.J.R. Groot

  • The Imperata grasslands of tropical Asia: area, distribution, and typology

    D. P. Garrity;M. Soekardi;M. van Noordwijk;R. de la Cruz

  • Compensation and Rewards for Environmental Services in the Developing World: Framing Pan-Tropical Analysis and Comparison

    Brent M. Swallow;Mikkel F. Kallesoe;Usman A. Iftikhar;Meine van Noordwijk

  • WaNuLCAS, a model of water, nutrient and light capture in agroforestry systems

    M. Van Noordwijk;B. Lusiana

  • Biodiversity and agricultural sustainagility: from assessment to adaptive management

    Louise Jackson;Meine van Noordwijk;Janne Bengtsson;William A. Foster

  • Climate change mitigation and adaptation in the land use sector: from complementarity to synergy.

    Lalisa A. Duguma;Peter A. Minang;Meine van Noordwijk

  • Towards an integrated global framework to assess the impacts of land use and management change on soil carbon: current capability and future vision.

    Pete Smith;Christian A. Davies;Stephen Ogle;Giuliana Zanchi

  • Root architecture in relation to tree-soil-crop interactions and shoot pruning in agroforestry

    M. Van Noordwijk;P. Purnomosidhi

  • Litter layer residence time in forest and coffee agroforestry systems in Sumberjaya, West Lampung

    Kurniatun Hairiah;Hermi Sulistyani;Didik Suprayogo;Widianto

  • Payments for Environmental Services: Evolution Toward Efficient and Fair Incentives for Multifunctional Landscapes

    Meine van Noordwijk;Beria Leimona;Rohit Jindal;Grace B. Villamor

  • Multipurpose agroforestry as a climate change resiliency option for farmers: an example of local adaptation in Vietnam

    Quan Nguyen;Minh Ha Hoang;Minh Ha Hoang;Ingrid Öborn;Meine van Noordwijk

  • Carbon stock assessment for a forest-to-coffee conversion landscape in Sumber-Jaya (Lampung, Indonesia): from allometric equations to land use change analysis

    Meine Van Noordwijk;Subekti Rahayu;Kurniatun Hairiah;Y.C. Wulan

  • Environmental services and land use change in Southeast Asia: from recognition to regulation or reward?

    Thomas P. Tomich;David E. Thomas;Meine van Noordwijk

  • Fairly efficient, efficiently fair: Lessons from designing and testing payment schemes for ecosystem services in Asia

    Beria Leimona;Meine van Noordwijk;Rudolf de Groot;Rik Leemans

Frequent Co-Authors

Jianchu Xu
Jianchu Xu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Georg Cadisch
Georg Cadisch University of Hohenheim
Daniel Murdiyarso
Daniel Murdiyarso IPB University
Brent Swallow
Brent Swallow University of Alberta
Irena F. Creed
Irena F. Creed University of Toronto
Ingrid Öborn
Ingrid Öborn Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Paul L. G. Vlek
Paul L. G. Vlek University of Bonn
Ken E. Giller
Ken E. Giller Wageningen University & Research
Cheryl A. Palm
Cheryl A. Palm University of Florida
Quirine M. Ketterings
Quirine M. Ketterings Cornell University

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