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Farmers analyse local maize varieties in the Karst mountains, Southwest China. IIED's work includes participatory plant breeding and community supported agriculture (Photo: IIED)
Can ecosystem-based adaptation help deliver the promise of Paris?
Insight, 13 January 2017
Waterfalls surrounded by nature.
Towards a nature positive economic recovery post COVID-19
… nature. Yet a staggering one fifth of countries are at risk of their ecosystems collapsing due to a decline in biodiversity and related ecosystem services. More than  one billion … in climate policy, for the most part investing in nature and biodiversity remains marginal to economic decision-making, including …
Event, 23 November 2021
The Nor Yauyos-Cochas Landscape Reserve in the Andean highlands, Peru (Photo: Karen Podvin)
EbA Evidence and Policy: Peru
Project, 04 September 2018
Four people holding microphones sit in front of a seated audience.
A call to action for people and nature
Insight, 25 August 2022
A native bird in Costa Rica found in a payments for environmental services project run by IIED and FONAFIFO (Photo Ina Porras)
Who will pay for ecosystem services?
… local livelihoods while coexisting with forests and other natural ecosystems. Indigenous communities and small farmers in Chiapas, Mexico, … with livelihood activities to improve food security and protect biodiversity , from beetles to elephants. Important efforts are underway … the forest carbon markets were valued at US$216 million . Funding for biodiversity and ecosystem services in 2010 is estimated to have been …
Insight, 28 January 2014
Cover for G02776.pdf
Biodiversity at IIED
… IIED’s work on biodiversity dates back over 20 years – although it has not always been … – a new discipline at the time. Building on this earlier work, biodiversity was formally established as a new thematic area of work for … communitybased wildlife management, and ‘policy that works’ for biodiversity and livelihoods. Today IIED’s biodiversity work ranges from …
Publication, 01 September 2010
Mountainous grassland, with a glacier in the background.
Debt swaps could release $100 billion for climate action
News, 15 April 2024
Quechua woman
Here's why Indigenous economics is the key to saving nature
… with access to essential nutrients and help sustain rich Andean biodiversity. Balance with nature, reciprocity and solidarity   (the … the same Indigenous economies that have conserved and enhanced biodiversity for millennia are now threatened by environmental policies … thus contributing to its erosion. Most of the world’s remaining biodiversity is located on lands owned or managed by Indigenous peoples. …
Insight, 12 April 2021
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Does EbA Work? A review of the evidence on the effectiveness of ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation
… Ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation (EbA) integrate the use of biodiversity and ecosystem services into an overall strategy for helping … often been based on anecdotal case studies of local people’s use of ecosystems. Although they are informative, they can provide rather … and review studies from around the world, from many different ecosystems and adopting a wide range of adaptation approaches utilising …
Publication, 01 February 2012
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L’adaptation basée sur les écosystèmes est-elle efficace ? Perceptions et leçons tirées de 13 sites de projets
Publication, 01 June 2019