Project properties

Title Farmer managed natural regeneration as a restoration strategy in Western Kenya
Group Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group
Project type internship
Credits 24
Supervisor(s) FEM: Madelon Lohbeck in cooperation with ICRAF
Examiner(s) dr. MWM (Madelon) Lohbeck
Contact info madelon.lohbeck@wur.nl
Begin date 2022/09/22
End date
Description General research question: what regenerates under what social and environmental conditions, and how does this contribute to optimizing functionality?
Questions to be further specified together with potential student, depending on interests and background
Contains fieldwork: field inventories, functional traits measurements, soil sampling, interviews.

Note: Travel by November!
Used skills Adventurous, independent, and hard-working
Requirements Agroforestry (FEM32306), Ecological methods (REG31806)