M.P. (Malaika) Yanou
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Profile
Malaika Pauline Yanou is a PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam at the Institute of Social Science Research (AISSR) and COLANDS project (CIFOR). Her research focus is on the contribution of local knowledge to implement a landscape approach in Kalomo District, Zambia. Particularly, to understand the role of different knowledge systems in knowledge production processes as well as to uncover the politics of knowledge by addressing power relations.
Previously Malaika joined CIFOR as research consultant working on landscape approaches, restoration and food security issues.
She holds a MA in International relations and diplomatic affairs at the University of Bologna (Italy) and a MSc in food security and development at the University of Reading (UK). She is interested in decoloniality studies and visual anthropology.
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Publications
2024
Bayala, E. R. C., Ros-Tonen, M., Yanou, M. P., Djoudi, H., Reed, J., & Sunderland, T. (2024). Towards more inclusive community landscape governance: Drivers and assessment indicators in northern Ghana. Forest Policy and Economics, 159, Article 103138. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2023.103138 [details]
2023
- Reed, J., Chervier, C., Borah, J. R., Gumbo, D., Moombe, K. B., Mbanga, T. M., O’Connor, A., Siangulube, F., Yanou, M., & Sunderland, T. (2023). Co-producing theory of change to operationalize integrated landscape approaches. Sustainability Science, 18(2), 839-855. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-022-01190-3 [details]
- Yanou, M. P., Ros-Tonen, M. A. F., Reed, J., Moombe, K., & Sunderland, T. (2023). Integrating local and scientific knowledge: The need for decolonising knowledge for conservation and natural resource management. Heliyon, 9(11), Article e21785. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e21785 [details]
- Yanou, M. P., Ros-Tonen, M., Reed, J., & Sunderland, T. (2023). Local knowledge and practices among Tonga people in Zambia and Zimbabwe: A review. Environmental Science and Policy, 142, 68-78. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2023.02.002 [details]
2020
- Moombe, K., Siangulube, F. S., Mwaanga, B. M., Mfuni, T. I., Yanou, M. P., Gumbo, D. J., Mwansa , R. C., & Juunza, G. (2020). Understanding landscape dynamics. A case study from Kalomo District. In J. Reed, M. Ros-Tonen, & T. Sunderland (Eds.), Operationalizing Integrated Landscape Approaches in the Tropics (pp. 148-175). CIFOR. https://doi.org/10.17528/cifor/007800
- Reed, J., Ickowitz, A., Chervier, C., Djoudi, H., Moombe, K., Ros-Tonen, M., Yanou, M., Yuliani, L., & Sunderland, T. (2020). Integrated landscape approaches in the tropics: A brief stock-take. Land Use Policy, 99, Article 104822. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104822 [details]
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Bayala, E. R. C., Ros-Tonen, M., Yanou, M. P., Djoudi, H., Reed, J., & Sunderland, T. (2024). Towards more inclusive community landscape governance: Drivers and assessment indicators in northern Ghana. Forest Policy and Economics, 159, Article 103138.