Seafood products from the Global South should be evaluated according to the particularities of the areas where they are captured and should be considered part of an integrated system. Those are some…
Colombia cuenta con un capital natural enorme, derivado de su riqueza en diversidad biológica, sobre el cual puede generar nuevas oportunidades de progreso e inclusión económica. Al mismo tiempo, el país enfrenta retos ambientales muy importantes asociados a sus profundas desigualdades, debilidad institucional para cumplir sus compromisos internacionales, y para cumplir el mandato de la Constitución de 1991, una de las cartas más verdes de tiempos recientes.
Key findings
Soil conservation activities (i.e., mixed cropping) in the south-south and northwest regions of the country in 2015 are influenced by a high prevalence of neighbours’ activities in 2012. Similarly, low prevalence of soil conservation activities in the middle belt of the country is correlated with similarly low activity levels of farmers’ neighbours in the preceding period.
Farmers with high (low) legumes cultivation in 2015 were surrounded by other farmers with similarly high (low) cultivation in 2012.
Over 80 participants from the environment and natural resources sector including, senior civil servants, the academia, civil society organization, members of the public, and students convened at…
Uganda’s participants in the Inclusive Green Economy (IGE) program, so-called IGE fellows, call for national policy instruments that have clear objectives and implementation plans. They also emphasize…
Debate about what proportion of the Earth to protect often overshadows the question of how nature should be conserved and by whom. We present a systematic review and narrative synthesis of 169 publications investigating how different forms of governance influence conservation outcomes, paying particular attention to the role played by Indigenous peoples and local communities. We find a stark contrast between the outcomes produced by externally controlled conservation, and those produced by locally controlled efforts.
Using a spatially explicit framework with low/middle-income country coastal characteristics, we explore whether aspatial policies augment the impact of marine protected areas(MPAs)and identify when MPAs create income burdens on communities. When MPAs are small and budget-constrained, they cannot resolve all of the marinescape’s open-access issues, but they can create win-win opportunities for ecological and economic goals at lower levels of enforcement.