Senior Scientist and head of the GeoScience lab , World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)
Tor-Gunnar Vågen is Senior Scientist and head of the GeoScience lab at the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF). His has a varied background of soil science, hydrology, landscape ecology, statistical modeling and remote sensing. Dr. Vågen has been leading the development and application of the Land Degradation Surveillance Framework (LDSF), which has been implemented in a range of projects across the global tropics. He currently leads research initiatives to establish global data-driven networks of sites for comparative assessments of ecosystem health, including linkages between biophysical and socio-economic variables in order to understand drivers of deforestation, land use change and land degradation across the global tropics.
Lessons from Kenya on how to restore degraded land
Aug 16, 2018 20:11 pm UTC| Insights & Views
The state of the earths biodiversity the worlds variety of living organisms is in crisis. About one third of the worlds land has been severely degraded from its natural state. Some of the worst forms of degradation...
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