Together with colleagues from the Global Agroforestry Network and supported by Mighty Earth and the Global Platform on Natural...

The European Cocoa Association (ECA) is a trade association of the major companies involved in the cocoa bean trade, processing,...

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM) works on the environmental, economic,...

Chocolate is made from cocoa beans that grow on pollinator-dependent trees in the tropical areas of the world. Yet, surprisingly little...

Another major news from the SAT lab: after visiting rice sites across China in 2020, meeting with many collaborators and proposing the...

We were overwhelmed by the interest in our "Sustainable Agriculture and Technology in the 21st century" online symposium. Almost 8,500...

We are sad to see Jing Huang leave the lab. Your positive spirit and always being helpful to everybody in the group will be missed!!! At...

Our lab hosted the 1st GAN meeting after last year's kick-off. Participants highlighted the importance of a joined multi-stakeholder...

Dr. Kevin Darras just published his method paper on a new method to sample bats with thermal and near-infrared imaging and ultrasound...

A common perception is that we need pesticides and fertilizers to produce cocoa for chocolate delights. In fact: we don't! Dr. Manuel...

As part of an international research team, Tom Wanger published the first meta-analysis that comprehensively assessed the effects of...

Manuel Toledo-Hernández just published his article on how hand pollination can increase cocoa yields and farmers income in Indonesia...

We are excited to welcome Dr. Kevin Darras as a new PostDoc to the lab - he will be working on bats, rice, and Automated Ecosystem...

Tom and Xueqing visited Chongqing, Henan, Hunan, Heilongjiang, and different sites in Zhejiang provinces to building collaborations and...

It was a fantastic morning with Prof. Zeng-Rong Zhu and Dr. Wenwu Zhou from the Institute of Insect Sciences at Zhejiang University to...

Tonight, a new paper on integrating agroecology into the post 2020 global biodiversity framework (GBF) is finally appearing in Nature...

After month of speaking to colleagues and weeks of organizing the event, we successfully started the Global Agrofrestry Network on the...

The latest Lab Hot-Pot dinner, with Yan-Yan, Siyuan, Juan, Tom, Xueqing and Chen. Ache, Manu, Kevin, Alma, and Xuanyi could unfortunately...

We are SUPER excited that Juan will join us as a Senior PostDoc in April. She will be working broadly with spatially explicit models to...

Nature Ecology and Evolution will publish our Correspondence article on integrating agroecology into the post 2020 Global Biodiversity...