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M.P. (Malaika) Yanou

Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
GPIO : Governance and Inclusive Development

Visiting address
  • Nieuwe Achtergracht 166
Postal address
  • Postbus 15629
    1001 NC Amsterdam
Contact details
  • 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. 

  • Publications

    2024

    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
    • Yanou, M. P., Ros-Tonen, M. A. F., 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
    • 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

    2020

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