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Development organisations beware! Biodiversity loss is not just an environmental issue
… will agree a new 10-year framework to tackle the alarming rate of biodiversity loss. Both environment and development communities were … engagement has not been seen in negotiations to manage the world’s biodiversity. The CBD launched its consultation on the post-2020 … from genes to micro-organisms to top predators and even whole ecosystems. We depend on biodiversity for everything from clean air and …
Insight, 29 April 2019
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Ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation: strengthening the evidence and informing policy. Research results from the Ecosystems Protecting Infrastructure and Communities project, Burkina Faso
Publication, 01 October 2018
Recovering wildlife populations in Namibia are largely attributed to policies that give local people rights to benefit from wildlife on their land (Photo: Ronald Woan, Creative Commons via Flickr)
There’s justice in the battle for biodiversity 
… Recent reports  from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services paint a stark picture of decline.  By 2050, we are expected to have destroyed up to 46% of all biodiversity. Around 12 million hectares are lost each year to land … cost-effective approach.  A practical agenda for restoring degraded ecosystems often simply starts with better information, which is vital …
Insight, 28 June 2018
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Ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation: strengthening the evidence and informing policy. Research results from the Ecosystems Protecting Infrastructure and Communities project, Chile
… Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) is the use of biodiversity and ecosystem services as part of an overall strategy to … results of using our Framework for Assessing EbA Effectiveness at the Ecosystems Protecting Infrastructure and Communities project, Chile. The … Biodiversity … the evidence and informing policy. Research results from the Ecosystems Protecting Infrastructure and Communities project, Chile …
Publication, 01 June 2018
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National Workshop on Biodiversity and Enviromental Governance : Safeguarding ecosystems for human well-being
… Its aims were to take stock of the implementation of environment and biodiversity policies; identify key lessons and challenges; and promote … action. India has a number of policies and laws on environment and biodiversity, but there is a significant gap in their implementation. … also increased: pollution, water scarcity, declining forest cover, biodiversity loss etc. A new culture is emerging which places high …
Publication, 01 December 2006
Group of ASOM women members holding plants in a field, smiling at the camera.
Land, climate and justice: grassroots women at the Global Land Forum
Insight, 11 June 2025
Two people in a boat on a large body of water, next to a group of hippos bathing
Biocredit Investment Operations (BIO): finance for nature and people
… Biodiversity degradation is occurring at alarming rates: wildlife … have declined by an average 69% in the past 50 years and natural ecosystems have shrunk by an average of 47% . However, finance for conservation and restoration is inadequate, and people living in biodiversity-rich areas bear the heaviest burden of these natural losses …
Project, 22 May 2023
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Ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation: strengthening the evidence and informing policy. Research results from the Governance for Ecosystem-based Adaptation: Transforming Evidence into Change project, El Salvador
… Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) is the use of biodiversity and ecosystem services as part of an overall strategy to … Biodiversity …
Publication, 01 July 2018
Women distributing seeds in Andhra Pradesh, India (Photo: Deccan Development Society)
Q&A: Why indigenous seed-saving women are the stewards of biodiversity
… that can bring associated shifts towards monocultures that threaten biodiversity. Women play a greater role in sustaining biodiverse … improve farming practices using agroecological methods that sustain biodiversity – such as mixed cropping practices to deter pests, and … the international community address the challenge of biodiversity and ecosystems loss, need to include to effectively support women’s role …
Article, 18 October 2018
A shepherd and a herd of sheep in a mountain
COP27: vital but at-risk IPLC landscapes urgently need more climate finance
Insight, 08 November 2022