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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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IUCN annouces collaborative certification scheme for Nature-based Solutions

In an announcement made at the 2021 World Conservation Congress, the IUCN has unveiled a plan to develop a collaborative certification system to ensure that Nature-based Solutions (NbS) actions and impacts are truly sustainable. The NbS certification system will be launched in 2022, and will enable business entities interested in obtaining certification of their NbS […]

08 September 2021

Coastal wetlands mitigate storm flooding and associated costs in estuaries

Fairchild et al. 2021 A recent study published in Environmental Research Letters has found that estuary wetlands such as saltmarshes reduce flooding more than previously thought. The authors created numerical hydrodynamic models of eight Welsh estuaries to simulate storms of varying intensity and coupling flood predictions to damage valuation. They found that in all cases […]

02 September 2021

The IUCN World Conservation Congress approaches

The IUCN World Conservation Congress, running 3-11 September 2021 both in-person in Marseille, France, and online, is where the world comes together to set priorities and drive conservation and sustainable development action. IUCN’s 1400+ government, civil society and indigenous peoples’ Member organisations vote on major issues, action which guides humanity’s relationship with our planet for […]

01 September 2021

solar panels amongst plants — The briefing sets out how technological, societal and nature-based solutions can work together to address climate change and biodiversity loss.

COP26 Universities Network briefing: net-zero solutions and research priorities for the 2020s

A new briefing paper published by the COP26 Universities Network sets out the key net-zero solutions and policy actions that can be implemented now, as well as the priority areas for research to focus on during the 2020s in order to achieve the required emissions reductions for net zero. Achieving the UK’s net-zero target by […]

25 August 2021

NCS Alliance carbon credit report graphic — Natural Climate Solutions for Corporates, published by the NCS Alliance, provides guidance for the credible use of NCS credits by corporates.

Natural Climate Solutions Alliance release Carbon Credits corporate guidance

A new guide published by the Natural Climate Solutions Alliance (NCS Alliance), Natural Climate Solutions for Corporates, provides direction on the use of Natural Climate Solutions (NCS) carbon credits as part of a climate strategy to help corporates meet their climate commitments and steer a pathway towards net zero, whilst also channelling much needed investment […]

24 August 2021

alpine pastoral meadow — Mountain regions dependent on low-intensity farming practices can be highly biodiverse, making them suitable for OECM classification.

Biodiversity needs every tool in the box: use OECMs

Gurney et al. 2021 A recent comment piece in Nature argues that Other Effective area-based Conservation Measures (OECMs) provide a mechanism to support effective biodiversity conservation, while protecting the rights and livelihoods of local & Indigenous communities. OECMs are designated areas that are achieving the effective in-situ conservation of biodiversity outside of protected areas. The […]

23 August 2021

Community members in Cusco, Peru. Photo by by Janaya Dasiuk on Unsplash. — The blog asserts the need for traditional knowledge and Indigenous Peoples’ rights to be integrated across the new global biodiversity targets.

Integrating Indigenous Peoples’ knowledge and rights into global biodiversity targets

A recent IIED blog by Krystyna Swiderska, principal researcher in the IIED Natural Resources research group, outlines recent research that highlights the need for traditional knowledge and the rights of Indigenous Peoples and local communities (IPLC) to be integrated across all post-2020 biodiversity targets. The majority of the earth’s biodiversity is located in a quarter […]

18 August 2021

UNEP Report on Nature-based Solutions for Cities

A recent UNEP report ‘Smart, Sustainable and Resilient cities: the Power of Nature-based Solutions’, produced in collaboration with the Italian Presidency of the G20, investigates the potential of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) to help build smart, sustainable and resilient cities. The report offers an overview of the best practices of NbS in cities around the world, […]

16 August 2021

NbS Bangladesh explores floating agriculture, NbS and the Blue Economy

Dr Haseeb Irfanullah, a member of the NbS Bangladesh team, has explored Nature-based Solutions, the Blue Economy, and the future of floating agriculture under climate change in recent news articles in the Daily Star, the largest circulating daily English-language newspaper in Bangladesh: Can we be bold enough and integrate Nature-based Solutions into Blue Economy? – […]

12 August 2021

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report affirms need for Net Zero

The much anticipated global climate science report Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science by Working Group I of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been released. The report brings together the latest advances in climate science, combining multiple lines of evidence from paleoclimate, observations, process understanding, and global and regional climate simulations. As the […]

11 August 2021

Revealing the widespread potential of forests to increase low level cloud cover

Duveiller et al. 2021 A recent study published in Nature Communications presents the first global assessment of forest restoration via satellite observations. As forests are a key carbon sink due to their capacity to sequester carbon, they play a crucial role in efforts to mitigate climate change. Protection and restoration of forested areas is therefore […]

10 August 2021

Nature Conservancy Biodiversity Action Guide released

A new Biodiversity Action Guide has been released by The Nature Conservancy, containing case studies, tools and resources to aid nations in realising their commitments under the Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the UN Sustainable Development Goals and other global agreements. The guide warns that this is the last […]

09 August 2021

Using ecosystem services to measure the degree to which a solution is nature-based

White et al. 2021 A recent study in Ecosystem Services highlights the need to better define the relative contribution of nature to Nature-based Solutions (NbS), which varies widely given that the concept covers the intersection of ecology, engineering, sociology and economics. NbS can play a role in resilience and adaption to many aspects of current […]

06 August 2021

World Bank report on the Economic Case for Nature

A new Economic Case for Nature report has been released by the World Bank, presenting a ‘Global Earth-Economy Model to Assess Development Policy Pathways’. The first of its kind, the global integrated ecosystem-economy modelling exercise assesses economic policy responses to the global biodiversity crisis. The report highlights the reliance of economies on nature, with the […]

05 August 2021

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