Ecosystem services

Making sure the poor benefit from ecosystem services

8 February 2012
Blog entry
Poverty
Natural resource management

Palm wine, bat stew and carbon markets all made it into the same discussion in Parliament last night – likely for the first time.

Defining fairness: the experiences of a Richard Sandbrook scholar at IIED

20 September 2011
Blog entry
Food and agriculture

My being at IIED is rather fortuitous. I completely missed the first advertisement to apply for this position when it went round on the college mailing list, but luckily I was saved when the deadline for applications was pushed back a week to accommodate late applicants. I was one of those late applicants. In the space of a few short weeks I was notified that I had been shortlisted and that I was invited to interview for the Richard Sandbrook Scholarship. I was just thrilled to have been offered an interview so you can imagine my joy when I was told hours later that I had been selected for the position.

Biomass energy: optimising its contribution to poverty reduction and ecosystem services

21 January 2011
Project
Energy

Biomass energy makes up 77 per cent of the world’s renewable energy - or 10 per cent of the world’s total energy mix (3 per cent in OECD and 22 per cent in non-OECD countries). As a major and increasing component of land use, biomass energy systems therefore have significant impacts on both ecosystem services and poverty.

IIED Interviews: Pavan Sukhdev on the 'TEEB' project

22 July 2010
Video
Green economy

IIED talks to Pavan Sukhdev about The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) project.

IIED Interviews: Pavan Sukhdev - green economies of the future

20 May 2009
Video
Green economy

In support of BioDiversity Day, Pavan Sukdhev talks to IIED about the sustainable, green economies of the future.

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