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Payments for Ecosystems / Environmental Services (PES)

31 entries

The morning fish auction at Mumbai's Ferry Wharf. Thousands of boats fish along the coast, putting acute pressure on fish stocks (Photo: lecercle, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Shaking the money pot to protect nature

Insight, 25 July 2017

Hilsa fish at a wholesaler fish market in Dhaka (Photo: Ina Porras/IIED)

The hilsa fishing ban: good for the fish, but good for the fisher?

Insight, 28 February 2017

New tools can measure the benefits of ecosystems such as coastal mangrove forests, such as this one in Mexico. Mangroves provide protection from coastal flooding and erosion, as well as nutrition for marine life (Photo: Peyri Herrera, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Action to protect nature and tackle poverty gathers momentum

Insight, 02 November 2016

Seeds collected from a farm in Chiapas, Mexico, for replanting and use in traditional medicine. (Photo: Ina Porras)

Conditional transfers for poverty reduction and ecosystem management

Archived Project

Villagers dig out a silted up water tank, paid for by India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (Photo: Mackay Savage, Creative Commons via Wikimedia)

Finding solutions for less poverty and better ecosystems

Insight, 15 December 2015

Bowls full of hilsa placed on a table

Investing in hilsa fishery as economic infrastructure for Bangladesh

Archived Project

Fishermen hauling in nets near the Kenyan coastal town of Shimoni (Photo: Anna Kika via Flickr)

Can we save our fisheries with lessons from our forests?

Insight, 27 November 2014

Bangladeshi man stands next to a woman who is working on a sewing machine

Protecting ecosystems and livelihoods in Bangladesh

Article, 09 October 2014

A shoal of fish; marine issues were among the focus of the international seminar

International seminar to demonstrate economic value of marine and coastal ecosystem services

News, 04 September 2014

Costa Rica's Peñas Blancas Reservoir is the focus of work involving payments for ecosystem services (Photo: Dr Ina Porras)

Payments for ecosystem services: We can't leave people out of the equation

Insight, 28 March 2014

Watch an animation produced by IIED to highlight its sustainable fisheries work

Inspiring action for sustainable fisheries: Today and the future

News, 28 March 2014

Participants at IIED's Innovations for equity in smallholder payments for ecosystem services conference at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh (Photo: Kate Wilson)

Coverage of conference on Innovations for equity in smallholder PES: bridging research and practice

News, 18 March 2014

Deforestation and fire ravage a forest area in Uganda (Photo: Paul Hatanga)

Random trials in Uganda to show if payments for ecosystems services really work

Insight, 10 March 2014

Seaweed farming in Nusa Lembongan, Bali, is an example of an alternative livelihood project (Photo: Yeowatzup via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)

Are "alternative livelihoods" projects effective?

Insight, 04 February 2014

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?

Insight, 28 January 2014

A village in North Sri Lanka benefits from energy provided by a solar panel (Photo: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)

IIED and Hivos set up 'Change Labs' on food and energy

News, 22 January 2014

A net full of cod

Fishy business at IIED

Insight, 10 December 2013

Costa Rica has adapted its systems of payments for ecosystem services over the past two decades

Payments for ecosystem services: Costa Rica’s recipe

Insight, 29 November 2013

Five ways to boost stocks of the Bay of Bengal’s beloved hilsa fish

News, 28 November 2013

Coral reefs provide us with goods worth hundreds of billions of dollars but are in decline. Copyright: 2004 Richard Ling

How to protect our oceans: use more carrots

Insight, 01 November 2013

Lush forests in Ghana – one of the focus countries where REDD+ is relatively new. (Photo: Neil Palmer/CIAT)

Designing REDD+ to promote sustainable development and reduce poverty

Archived Project

Boat surrounded by vegetation growing in the water near the river port of Vallemi.

Will Payments for Watershed Services fuel the protection of ecosystem services?

Insight, 21 June 2013

Men and women fish off the island of Padma Pakur. Image by Espen Rasmussen/PANOS

Compensation for conservation of Bangladesh’s national fish

News, 28 May 2013

Coral Reef. Economists at the BioEcon conference Credit: Magnus Manske (creative commons)

The value of valuing ecosystem services

Insight, 28 September 2012

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