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Johanna Jacobi

Senior research scientist

Niether, W., Jacobi, J., Blaser, W. J., Andres, C. & Armengot, L. 2020. Cocoa agroforestry systems versus monocultures: a multi-dimensional meta-analysis. Environmental Research Letters 15, 104085.

 

Jacobi J, Mukhovi S, Llanque A, Augstburger H, Käser F, Pozo, C, Ngutu Peter M, Rist S, Ifejika Speranza C. 2018. Operationalizing food system resilience: An indicator-based assessment in agroindustrial, smallholder farming, and agroecological contexts in Bolivia and Kenya. Land Use Policy 79:433-446.

 

Jacobi J, Rist S, Altieri MA. 2017. Incentives and disincentives for diversified agroforestry systems from different actors‘ perspectives in Bolivia. International Journal for Agricultural Sustainability 15 (4):365-379. DOi: 10.1080/14735903.2017.1332140

 

Jacobi J, Mathez-Stiefel SL, Gambon H, Rist S, Altieri MA. 2016. Whose knowledge, whose development? Exploring the role of local and external knowledge in agroforestry initiatives in Bolivia. Environmental Management 59 (3):464-476. DOI:10.1007/s00267-016-0805-0

 

Jacobi J. 2016. Agroforestry in Bolivia: Opportunities and Challenges in the Context of Food Security and Food Sovereignty. Environmental Conservation 43(4):307-316.

 

Jacobi J, Schneider M, Pillco Mariscal M, Huber S, Weidmann S, Bottazzi P, Rist S. 2015. Farm resilience in organic and non-organic cocoa farming systems in Alto Beni, Bolivia. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems 39: 798-832.

 

Jacobi J, Schneider M, Pillco Mariscal M, Huber S, Weidmann S, Rist, S. 2014. La contribución de la producción del cacao orgánico a la resiliencia socio-ecológica en el contexto del cambio climático en el Alto Beni – La Paz. Acta Nova Vol. 6 Nr. 4, 1-33.

 

Jacobi, J., Andres C., Schneider M, Pillco Mariscal I, Calizaya P, Rist S. 2014. Carbon stocks, tree diversity, and the role of organic certification in different cocoa production systems in Alto Beni, Bolivia. Agroforestry Systems Nr. 88, 1117–1132.

 

Jacobi J, Schneider M, Bottazzi P, Pillco Mariscal I, Calizaya P, Rist S. 2013. Agroecosystem resilience and farmers’ perceptions of climate change impacts on cocoa farms in Alto Beni, Bolivia. Journal of Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems 30(2), 170-183.

 

Bottazzi P, Reyes-García V, Crespo D, Mathez-Stiefel SL, Soria H, Clavijo M, Jacobi J, Rist S. 2013. Productive diversification and sustainable use of complex social-ecological systems: A comparative study of indigenous and settler communities in the Bolivian Amazon. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems Vol. 38 Nr. 2, 137-164.

 

 

Peer-reviewed Book chapters:

 

Jacobi J, Rist S, Schneider M, Niggli U. 2017. Building social-ecological resilience in a changing climate: Challenges, potentials, and ways ahead in smallholder cocoa production in Bolivia. In: Sudmeier-Rieux et al. Identifying Emerging Issues in Disaster Risk Reduction, Migration, Climate Change and Sustainable Development. Springer

 

Andres C, Comoe H, Beerli A, Schneider M, Rist S, Jacobi J. 2016. Cocoa in Monocultures and Dynamic Agroforestry Systems in Bolivia and Côte d’Ivoire: Productivity, Pests, Diseases, and Factors Influencing Adoption. Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 19, pp. 121-153

 

 

Articles in non-peer-reviewed journals and books:

 

Catacora-Vargas G, Jacobi J. 2017. Broadening ‘pesticidovivilange’ with alternatives to food production without pesticides - Reply to `Toward Pesticidovigilance`, A.M. Milner, I.L. Boyd, Science 357, 6357 (2017). science.sciencemag.org/content/357/6357/1232/tab-e-letters

 

Escalera, JC, Jacobi, J. 2017. Creando resiliencia socio-ecológica: Dos ejemplos desde Bolivia. In: Nicholls CI, Altieri MA (eds.) Nuevos caminos para reforzar la resiliencia agroecológica al cambio climático, SOCLA/REDAGRES, pp. 86-93.

 

Jacobi J, Mathez-Stiefel SL, Gambon H. 2016. ¿Locales, externos, o integrados? El rol de diferentes tipos de conocimientos en la agroforestería boliviana. LEISA Revista de Agroecología (Edición Latinoaméricana) 31-2, pp. 17-19.

 

Jacobi J, Alves Zanella M, Pillco Mariscal MA, Choque Lucana, AC, Rist S. 2015. Alternativas para el Desarrollo Sostenible de Alto Beni, Bolivia. In: Alves Zanella M, Rosendahl, J, Weigelt, J, Gobernanza de los Recursos Naturales a favor de la Población Pobre en el contexto del Cambio Climático. Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) and International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Potsdam and Rome, pp. 73-87.

 

Jacobi J, Schneider M, Rist S. 2014. Agroforstwirtschaft als ökologisch, ökonomisch und

sozial nachhaltige Landnutzungsform: Fallbeispiel Kakaoanbau in Bolivien. Elemente der Naturwissenschaft 100: 4-25.

 

Institute

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    CDE - Centre for Development and Environment, University of Bern

    • CDE is Switzerland’s centre of excellence for sustainable development. One of the University of Bern’s strategic research centres, we are tasked with mainstreaming sustainability throughout the university’s research and teaching. We conduct research and teaching on behalf of a more sustainable world. Our aim is to chart pathways to sustainable development and to initiate transformations in line with the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In our Strategy 2016–2021, we offer a blueprint for engaged and transformative science. We combine sound research with inter- and transdisciplinary approaches to analysis and transformation. Our research agenda is created within long-standing partnerships spanning the global North and South.
    • Switzerland, Bern
      Mittelstrasse 43, 3012 Bern
    • 0059167341152
    • https://www.cde.unibe.ch/

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