Oil palm landscapes: Playing for keeps
A group of farmers in East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Playing a board game. To tackle a major issue that affects their livelihoods and the environment: palm oil.
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Céline Dillmann
“As researchers, we can’t tell people what to do. But this approach is a way for people to explore the decision-making process. It pushes boundaries and gives people a chance to realize the consequences of their actions before they happen,” says Anne Dray, a research fellow of ForDev at ETH Zürich.
Read this article on how we use ComMod to look at oil-palm driven land-use changes in Indonesia.
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