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Xiaoting Hou Jones

Senior researcher (biodiversity), Natural Resources

Xiaoting has a research background in a variety of areas of sustainable development from industrial ecology and supply chain management to climate change and forests. In between her studies, she held various positions with local government environment protection agencies, NGOs and business consulting companies in China, which built the foundation for her later work on multi-stakeholder engagement - primarily in the forest sector at The Forests Dialogue. Between 2009 and 2014 her work focused on REDD+, agriculture drivers of deforestation, investing in locally controlled forestry, and Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC).
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Before IIED

Program manager, The Forests Dialogue

Education

Master of Environment Management, Yale University; Bachelor in Environment Science and Engineering, Fudan University, China; Bachelor in Economics and Accounting, Fudan University, China

Current work

REDD+ and private sector, food demand and forests, ecosystem based adaptation and community-based adaptation, multi-stakeholder dialogues on mining. 

Interviews

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Telephone: 
+44 (0) 203 463 7431
Email: 
xiaoting.hou.jones@iied.org
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Languages: English, Mandarin Chinese (native), and Spanish (basic)

Xiaoting Hou Jones's projects

Cultivated fields and forests

Connect: mainstreaming biodiversity information into the heart of government decision making

Project, Jun 2020
The Saloum Delta Biosphere Reserve in Senegal (Photo: El Hadji Ballé Seye/UICN-Sénégal)

EBA Evidence and Policy: Senegal

Project, Apr 2019
Workers digging zaï pits that help to preserve water on farms (Photo: IUCN)

EbA Evidence and Policy: Burkina Faso

Project, Jan 2019
Restoring mangroves (Photo: Orsibal Ramírez/IUCN)

EbA Evidence and Policy: El Salvador

Project, Dec 2018
This bridge crossing the Yorkin river in the Sixaola Basin is used daily by local communities, including children on their way to school in the early morning. (Photo: Paul Aragón,©IUCN)

EbA Evidence and Policy: Costa Rica

Project, Dec 2018
The Nor Yauyos-Cochas Landscape Reserve in the Andean highlands, Peru (Photo: Karen Podvin)

EbA Evidence and Policy: Peru

Project, Sep 2018
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Latest publications

Food and Forests: Understanding agriculture and conservation trade-offs in Zambia

Thriving in diversity: smallholders organising for climate resilience

Soluciones basadas en la naturaleza para la adaptación al cambio climático

基于自然的气候变化应对方案

Nature-based solutions to climate change adaptation

Des solutions fondées sur la nature pour l’adaptation au changement climatique

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Xiaoting Hou Jones's blog posts

two women with a big basket of corn

Working with nature to build back better from COVID-19: inspirations from farmers in China

Blog, Jun 2020
Two men pushing a boat filled with mangrove seedlings

Finding solutions in nature for climate change

Blog, May 2020
People gathering branches

Nature-based solutions to climate change: stories from Chile

Blog, Dec 2019
Crops float on water

Time to team up with nature to adapt to climate change

Blog, Sep 2019
Cutting down trees, especially for livestock grazing, can lead to soil erosion, as seen on this hillside outside Addis Ababa (Photo: Aaron Minnick/World Resources Institute, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Shaping the future of forest and farm landscapes in Africa

Blog, Aug 2017
Miombo woodlands in Southeast Tanzania. But can remote sensing technologies accurately detect the woodlands (Photo: Samuel Bowers)

How much can the eyes in the sky really tell us about deforestation?

Blog, Jan 2017
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