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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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Recent talks from Nathalie Seddon

Nathalie has given numerous talks to leaders in NGOs, policy and business, including an opening keynote alongside Christiana Figueres and Johan Rockström at the Climate and Business Conference in New Zealand, a panel discussion on NbS during Wales Climate Week, a talk on coastal resilience at the WWF Fuller Symposium, a talk on NbS (with […]

01 December 2020

Join the NbS Bangladesh Network

We believe that it is imperative to bring together relevant stakeholders in Bangladesh – working on and/or interested in NbS – to join in the discussion and participate in the NbS Bangladesh Network to take this initiative forward. With the Network we seek to build a community of researchers, practitioners and policymakers working at the […]

01 December 2020

Beth Turner starts PhD on NbS and resilience

Beth will be exploring how forest landscape restoration can contribute to socio-ecological resilience to global changes. She will investigate this approach in sites in Bolivia and Canada where wildfires, climate change, and land-use change are increasing the vulnerability of forests and the communities who depend on them. She will be based out of the Université […]

30 November 2020

NbS in a Changing Climate Conference – date confirmation in January

We will be holding an online-in person hybrid conference at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, bringing researchers together with policymakers, civil society actors and business leaders to discuss the potential of NbS to meet societal goals in a warming world. We aim to confirm in January whether the conference will proceed 6-8 July […]

30 November 2020

Landscape restoration in the Lake District UK

Working in collaboration with United Utilities, the RSPB is managing the Haweswater watershed in the Lake District National Park to achieve the joint aims of boosting biodiversity, supporting local enterprise and improving water quality. So far this has involved planting over 100,000 trees and encouraging natural regeneration of woodland by reducing the number of grazing […]

30 November 2020

Rewilding UK farmland to address nitrate pollution

Mudflats, saltmarshes and seagrass on the south coast of the UK have received high loads of nitrogen and phosphorus for decades, from wastewater pollution, urban runoff and agricultural discharge. This has led to habitats being covered with mats of green algae, starving animals and plants of oxygen and hindering birds from reaching invertebrate prey. The […]

30 November 2020

UK Nature Recovery Network launch

The beginning of November saw the launch of the new Nature Recovery Network (NRN), which aims to expand, improve and connect wildlife-rich places across towns, cities and the countryside in the UK. There is an emphasis on increasing connectivity between habitat patches, and planning land management to enhance other ecosystem services, such as carbon storage […]

30 November 2020

Climate reverses directionality in the richness–abundance relationship across the World’s main forest biomes

Madrigal-González et al. 2020 It is critical that forest restoration is informed by the best possible science, to maximise carbon storage and other benefits over the long term. There are two competing hypotheses about whether the number of tree species or tree abundance is more important for maximising forest carbon storage. This study tested these […]

30 November 2020

The greenhouse gas offset potential from seagrass restoration

Oreska et al. 2020 Seagrass meadows are highly productive systems that bury organic carbon in sediment. This study is the first to quantify net greenhouse gas removal from the atmosphere from seagrass restoration. The authors measured all the necessary greenhouse gas parameters in the 7km2 of restored eelgrass meadow in Virginia, USA, finding that the […]

30 November 2020

Strengthening synergies: how action to achieve post-2020 global biodiversity conservation targets can contribute to mitigating climate change

De Lamo et al. 2020 This report looks at how much climate change mitigation would be achieved if we meet biodiversity conservation targets. It is the first output of ongoing research on this topic, and uses information on carbon stocks in locations that have been identified as priorities for meeting biodiversity targets. The report finds […]

30 November 2020

The role of nature in the UK NDC

This report, from the RSPB and WWF based on analysis by Pete Smith and colleagues at the University of Aberdeen and with inputs from the Nature-based Solutions Initiative, makes science-based recommendations on how to include nature in an updated UK Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC). Every Paris Agreement signatory has the chance to submit an updated […]

18 November 2020

Net zero screenshot — Oxford Net Zero will help advance solutions to enable the public, private and charity sectors reach net zero emissions.

Launch of Oxford Net Zero

Oxford Net Zero is a new interdisciplinary research initiative which combines Oxford’s existing research body with research fellows from around the world to advance solutions for reaching net-zero emissions. The online platform will act as a source of equitable climate solutions for businesses, policymakers and professionals across all sectors. The initiative also aims to address […]

16 November 2020

New Taskforce on Scaling Voluntary Carbon Markets

The Taskforce on Scaling Voluntary Carbon Markets is an initiative aiming to scale an effective and efficient voluntary carbon market. The aim is to bring together key players from across the entire carbon market value chain, to provide recommendations on the most pressing challenges facing the carbon market. The Taskforce is private-sector led, and has […]

15 November 2020

Stephen Woroniecki publishes on overcoming dualistic thinking

Stephen Woroniecki, research associate at NbSI, has recently co-authored a paper in Ecosystems and People which uses ecosystem-based adaptation case studies to suggest how to overcome dualistic thinking between people and nature in sustainability science as a leverage point to facilitate transformative change.

05 November 2020

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