Ida Djenontin

Assistant Professor of Geography

Research Summary

Examines the interactions between people and agro-forest landscapes in a changing climate context, focusing on understanding the policy processes, cross-scale governance and institutional arrangements, and socio-cultural and equity challenges in managing such socio-ecological systems.


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Most Recent Publications

Unveiling global narratives of restoration policy: Big data insights into competing framings and implications

Ida N.S. Djenontin, Harry W. Fischer, Junjun Yin, Guangqing Chi, 2025, Geoforum

Coproducing water-energy-food Nexus actionable knowledge: Lessons from a multi-actor collaborative learning school in Uganda, East Africa

Ida N.S. Djenontin, Bassel Daher, Jacob W. Johnson, Kenan Adule, Birhanu K. Hishe, Patience Kekirunga, Vanessa King, Emma Gaalaas Mullaney, Patience Nimushaba, Michael Gregory Jacobson, Annette Huber-Lee, Ellen J. Kayendeke, Abdullah Konak, Vicki L. Morrone, Esther Obonyo, Losira N. Sanya, Laura Schmitt Olabisi, Silvia Ulloa Jiménez, Christopher Scott, 2025, Environmental Science and Policy

How do trees outside forests contribute to human wellbeing? A systematic review from South Asia

Pooja Choksi, Shalini Dhyani, Ida Djenontin, Harry Fischer, Megan Kocher, Tobias Plieninger, Vijay Ramprasad, Forrest Fleischman, Faisal Elias, 2025, Environmental Research Letters

Ecosystem restoration centered in people

Stephanie Mansourian, Ida N.S. Djenontin, Marlène Elias, Johan A. Oldekop, Mercy A.A. Derkyi, Christian A. Kull, Pablo Pacheco, 2025, Restoration Ecology

Trends in forest livelihoods research – Taking stock in 2024

Ida N.S. Djenontin, Anne M. Larson, Daniel C. Miller, 2024, Forest Policy and Economics

Promoting cleaner cooking technologies in urban Malawi: Assessing the acceptance of pellet-fed gasifier cookstoves from a pilot targeted distribution model

Leo C. Zulu, Judith F.M. Kamoto, Ida N.S. Djenontin, Charles B.L. Jumbe, Innocent Pangapanga-Phiri, Robert B. Richardson, Mitelo Subakanya, Pascal Nzokou, Stephy D. Makungwa, 2024, Energy for Sustainable Development

Making forest landscape restoration work for livelihoods and well-being of local communities

H Djoudi, Ida Djenontin, C Colfer, 2024, on p. 199-237

Human Dimensions of Forest Landscape Restoration

Stephanie Mansourian, Mercy Derkyi, Ida Djenontin, Marlene Elias, Johan Oldekop, Pablo Pacheco, Janice Burns, Anita Diederichsen, Michael Kleine, Daniel Vallauri, Bethanie Walder, 2024, on p. 76

Nuances to Restoration in Africa: Considerations for plural perspectives”.

Ida Djenontin, Forrest Fleischmann, Leo Zulu, Sarobidy Rakotonarivo, 2024, Science

The human well-being outcomes of tree plantations in sub-Saharan Africa: A reassessment of evidence using longitudinal subnational-year data

Edouard R. Mensah, Nilesh Shinde, Ange T. Kakpo, Ida N.S. Djenontin, 2024, Forest Policy and Economics

Most-Cited Papers

The art of co-production of knowledge in environmental sciences and management: lessons from international practice

Ida Nadia S. Djenontin, Alison M. Meadow, 2018, Environmental Management on p. 885-903

Revisiting the factors shaping outcomes for forest and landscape restoration in Sub-Saharan Africa: A way forward for policy, practice and research

Ida Nadia S. Djenontin, Samson Foli, Leo C. Zulu, 2018, Sustainability

Smallholders' tree planting activity in the ziro province, southern burkina faso: Impacts on livelihood and policy implications

Daniel Etongo, Ida Nadia S. Djenontin, Markku Kanninen, Kalame Fobissie, 2015, Forests on p. 2655-2677

Recognizing the equity implications of restoration priority maps

Bill Schultz, Dan Brockington, Eric A. Coleman, Ida Djenontin, Harry W. Fischer, Forrest Fleischman, Prakash Kashwan, Kristina Marquardt, Marion Pfeifer, Rose Pritchard, Vijay Ramprasad, 2022, Environmental Research Letters

Land tenure, asset heterogeneity and deforestation in Southern Burkina Faso

Daniel Etongo, Ida Nadia S. Djenontin, Markku Kanninen, Kalame Fobissie, Kaisa Korhonen-Kurki, Houria Djoudi, 2015, Forest Policy and Economics on p. 51-58

Assessing use-values and relative importance of trees for livelihood values and their potentials for environmental protection in Southern Burkina Faso

Daniel Etongo, Ida Nadia S. Djenontin, Markku Kanninen, Edinam K. Glover, 2017, Environment, Development and Sustainability on p. 1141-1166

What do we (not) know on forest management institutions in sub-Saharan Africa? A regional comparative review

Jude Ndzifon Kimengsi, Raphael Owusu, Ida N.S. Djenontin, Jürgen Pretzsch, Lukas Giessen, Gertrud Buchenrieder, Mariève Pouliot, Ana Nicole Acosta, 2022, Land Use Policy

Sustainable agricultural intensification and gender-biased land tenure systems: an exploration and conceptualization of interactions

Gundula Fischer, Akosua Darkwah, Judith Kamoto, Jessica Kampanje-Phiri, Philip Grabowski, Ida Djenontin, 2020, International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability on p. 1-20

Ultimately, What is Forest Landscape Restoration in Practice? Embodiments in Sub-Saharan Africa and Implications for Future Design

Ida N.S. Djenontin, Leo C. Zulu, Daniel Etongo, 2021, Environmental Management on p. 619-641

From diagnosis to action: Understanding youth strengths and hurdles and using decision-making tools to foster youth-inclusive sustainable agriculture intensification

Leo C. Zulu, Ida N.S. Djenontin, Phillip Grabowski, 2021, Journal of Rural Studies on p. 196-209