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Description coming soon — The framework was conceptualised with smallholder Kichwa agroforestry farmers in Napo, Ecuador. Photo credit: Óscar Luna

A pathway towards equitable co-design with smallholder farmers

New research by the Flourishing Landscapes Programme offers a pathway towards more equitable collaboration between researchers, practitioners and smallholder farmers. The study presents a practical framework for embedding equity within co-design, moving from top-down knowledge transfer to knowledge co-production.

18 August 2026

Groundswell Festival: Sharing Oxford’s Agricultural Research

At Groundswell Regenerative Agriculture Festival, the AGRIIH marquee was a hub for all things agriculture resilience. Researchers from across the University of Oxford showcased agricultural research across disciplines, from soil biodiversity to agricultural policy and beyond.

08 July 2026

Fishbone Deforestation Rondônia, Brazil August 5, 2016 — Fires burning to clear forest for farming and grazing in the Amazon rainforest, Rondônia, Brazil. Credit: Planet Labs, Inc., licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How can action on deforestation strengthen UK food resilience?

Introducing a new research project exploring the link between deforestation and UK food resilience. The UK government’s recent national security assessment highlights the risks of accelerating global ecosystem degradation for UK food security. In collaboration with DEFRA, the project brings together an interdisciplinary team to identify evidence-based policy solutions, funded by the Agile Initiative.

04 June 2026

Pathways to strengthen biodiversity protection in oil palm landscapes

A new study published today in Ecological Solutions and Evidence examines the challenges and solutions for protecting biodiversity within oil palm landscapes. Palm oil is a major global commodity, yet its production can come at significant environmental and social costs. Drawing on practitioner interviews, the study proposes recommendations to strengthen biodiversity protection and social safeguards in oil palm landscapes.

04 February 2026

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IPCC Climate Change Mitigation report released

The IPCC has finalized the third part of the Sixth Assessment Report, Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change, the Working Group III contribution. It was finalised on 4 April during the 14th Session of Working Group III and 56th Session of the IPCC. The Working Group III reports on an updated global assessment of […]

11 April 2022

Actions to halt biodiversity loss generally benefit the climate

Shin et al. 2022 A review in Global Change Biology examines conservation actions which have the largest potential for mitigation of climate change, highlighting that conservation actions have a variety of benefits and few trade-offs with climate change mitigation. The study looked at the extent to which actions taken to halt or reverse biodiversity loss […]

02 April 2022

The biodiversity and ecosystem service contributions and trade-offs of forest restoration approaches

Hua et al. 2022 A recent study in Science has revealed the differences in the ecosystem services and biodiversity benefits of native forests compared to tree plantations. Diverse native forests were found to perform better in terms of supporting biodiversity, above-ground carbon storage, soil erosion prevention, and water provisioning, compared to simple tree plantations. Plantations […]

25 March 2022

River restoration for natural flood management in Eddleston Water, Scotland

The Eddleston Water project, funded by the Scottish Government and the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA), is investigating the effectiveness of natural flood management (NFM) techniques and habitat restoration measures at a catchment scale. The river was severely straightened at the start of 19th Century, and combined with agricultural intensification, the construction of a railway embankment, […]

12 March 2022

United Nations Environment Assembly agrees Nature-based Solutions definition

The Fifth Session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-5) has made a resolution on adopting a multilaterally agreed definition of nature-based solutions (NbS); recognising the important role they play in the global response to climate change and its social, economic and environmental effects. The UNEA-5 resolution formally adopted the definition of NbS as ‘actions […]

03 March 2022

New IPCC Climate report on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability released

The latest climate report of the IPCC ‘IPCC Working Group II report, Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability’ has been released, highlighting the risk of climate change to human wellbeing & the health of the planet. The report reflects our increased knowledge of the interdependence of climate, ecosystems and biodiversity, and human societies, and […]

28 February 2022

NbS Conference 2022 announced

It is our pleasure to announce that on the 5-7th of July we will be hosting our Nature-based Solutions Conference 2022, held in the Natural History Museum, the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford and online. We will be bringing together leading researchers from the social and natural sciences, engineering and economics, along with practitioners, […]

24 February 2022

Revised climate pledges show enhanced ambition for nature-based solutions

A total of 122 new NDCs were submitted last year, representing 148 signatories to the Paris Agreement. Our analysis of these new NDCs reveal enhanced ambition for nature-based solutions to climate change, with 84% of revised NDCs including the protection or restoration of ecosystems, or agroforestry, in their mitigation and/or adaptation plans, up from 78% […]

22 February 2022

New UNEP Frontiers Report on emerging environmental issues

The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Frontiers’ report examines the current emerging issues of environmental concern. The 2022 edition, Noise, Blazes and Mismatches?, looks at three concerns: urban soundscapes, wildfires and phenological shifts. Chapter 1 examines city noise, drawing attention to noise pollution and its long-term physical and mental health impacts, along with measures that can […]

21 February 2022

Co-benefits of forest carbon projects in Southeast Asia

Vadya Sarira et al 2022. A new study in Nature Sustainability by researchers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) reveals the social and environmental benefits of forest protection in South-east Asia. This region contains 196 million ha of tropical forests, many of which are under threat from agricultural expansion and other economic activities. Large-scale […]

17 February 2022

Trillion Trees Guide to Investing in Forest Restoration

A new tool from WWF, WCS and BirdLife International, the Trillion Trees Guide to Investing in Forest Restoration, helps those looking to support forest restoration by asking a series of questions to better understand the potential of any given restoration programme. The tool provides practical guidance for private, corporate, and institutional organisations to better understand […]

17 February 2022

Creating a Nature-Positive Future – UNDP report

A report from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Creating a Nature-Positive Future, presents a path to enhance protected and conserved area coverage and quality to secure global nature, with multiple co-benefits for people. Protected areas (PAs) and other effective area-based conservation measures (OECMs) are a cornerstone of biodiversity conservation that provide co-benefits for achievement […]

17 February 2022

Indigenous council practices community-based conservation and natural resource management

An indigenous council representing the communities of an exceptionally biodiverse region of the central Tropical Andes has successfully gained a collective title to manage several hundred thousand hectares of land. The Consejo Indígena del Pueblo Tacana (CIPTA), or Indigenous Council of the Tacana People, secured a ‘Native Community Lands’ collective land title (TCO) from the […]

16 February 2022

Coastal mangrove restoration using a community ecosystem-based adaptation approach

The Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change through Coastal Afforestation (CBACC-CF) program is the first Bangladesh National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA) project under the GEF-UNDP portfolio, implemented by the Government of Bangladesh in four coastal districts. Bangladesh is surrounded by vulnerable coastal areas where the intensity of weather events exacerbated by climate change is […]

16 February 2022

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