The Malawi Participatory Forest Inventory Project was one of 11 projects awarded an Academic Venture Fund grant by the Cornell Atkinson Center in 2021. The project, which began in the fall of 2020, aims to support climate-resilient farming practices in Malawi while expanding knowledge about the quality and quantity of forests in northern Malawi and the relationship between agroecological farming practices and forest biodiversity. Daniel Kpienbarreh, a postdoctoral associate at Western University, and Linda Chimowa, the new research coordinator for SFHC, are both working on the project with Rachel Bezner Kerr.