Agriculture
Project-Level Insights for Landscape Level PES (Payment for Ecosystem Services)
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Article Over the last 10 years, there has been a significant increase in private and public sector interest to explore payments for ecosystem services (PES), in order to assign value to ecosystem services, and thus promote better land use practices. We recently investigated how PES schemes are faring in meeting the goals of safeguarding ecosystem services, while also benefiting local livelihoods.
It’s Wild! Taking a Market Approach to Land Management
Yale Conservation Finance Camp Announcement (2013)
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Training The 7th annual Yale Conservation Finance Boot Camp will be held at Yale University on Monday, June 17 through Friday, June 21, 2013. This advanced learning opportunity will prepare conservation practitioners and board members, foundation leaders, private investors, and graduate students to utilize innovative conservation finance strategies and to share best practices.
Contact Information:
<p><b style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Leigh Whelpton, </span></b><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Program Manager, Conservation Finance Network, </span><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Island Press #(202)232-7933, x 20.</span></p>
<p> </p> Indonesian Communities Build a ‘Green Wall’ to Fight Deforestation
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Article For the last four years I’ve managed CI’s Green Wall project in Indonesia. This project is located in the Gunung Gede-Pangrango National Park, a forested, mountainous landscape that is one of the last havens for biodiversity on the island of Java.
Local communities unite to protect Mount Diwata Range IBA
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Article The essence of organizing the local community as a Site Support Group in Mount Diwata Range Important Biodiversity Area (IBA) for natural resource protection and conservation aims to improve the living condition of the forest-dependent families in the IBA by engaging themselves into forest-friendly livelihoods through linkage and networking building that brings to the realm of equal opportunities both for men and women to access natural resources for biodiversity conservation
Influence of Coastal Economic Valuations in the Caribbean: Enabling Conditions and Lessons Learned
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White Paper This paper assesses the policy influence of previous coastal ecosystem economic valuations in the Caribbean and identifies the key “enabling conditions” for valuations to influence policy, management, or investment decisions. These findings will inform WRI’s and our partners’ efforts to produce a standardized framework for economic valuation of coastal ecosystems in the Caribbean.
The Conservation Catalysts Network (Lincoln Institute of Land Policy)
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Initiative The Conservation Catalysts Network (CCN) focuses on universities, colleges and research institutions that are catalyzing large landscape conservation. Our members are pairings of academic and research institutions with conservation initiatives (for example, the pairing of the Harvard Forest and the Wildlands and Woodlands Initiative).
Website:
http://conservationcatalysts.net/ Forests and Food: Thoughts on Our Fear of Working Together
Accidental Conservation: Cocoa + Forest Restoration in Madagascar
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Article Eighty-five percent of the flora and fauna in Madagascar’s celebrated forests is endemic — it exists nowhere else on Earth.
MIGA Backs Sustainable Bamboo Plantation in Nicaragua
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Article Project creates jobs, improves land, mitigates effects of climate change
