Seminar series guest speaker Dr. Sarobidy Rakotonarivo. Making 30 by 30 work for people and nature: a personal journey in applied conservation research
Dr Sarobidy Rakotonarivo, MITSILO lab, University of Antananarivo, Madagascar
Sarobidy is a multi-award-winning Malagasy conservation social scientist, among many honours she received the 2022 TWAS-Samira Omar Innovation for Sustainability Award and the L’Oreal-UNESCO Award For Women in Science, 2024. She has published more than 50 peer-reviewed articles across a huge range of conservation social science, from economic valuation to human wildlife conflict, and is passionate about research that directly informs policy and practice, to make the conservation and restoration of ecosystems more equitable and effective. She currently leads numerous internationally-funded research projects, covering a wide range of fields including climate smart agriculture, equitable protected area management, climate migration and forest restoration. Sarobidy founded the MITSILO lab at the University of Antananarivo out of a desire to establish a solid infrastructure for social science and interdisciplinary research in Madagascar. We are proud that she is an honorary fellow and alumna of Bangor, having completed her PhD on the Erasmus Mundus FONASO program at Bangor and Copenhagen Universities, and continues to work with colleagues here on a number of research and impact projects.
Dr Sarobidy Rakotonarivo, MITSILO lab, University of Antananarivo, Madagascar.