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  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.

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  Evaluating strategies for equitable co-design of sustainability interventions with smallholder farmers

  Our analysis reveals that co-design potential in driving transformation in agricultural contexts depends not only on recognising equity as a goal but also relies on embedding procedural equity principles and mechanisms from the start and throughout all phases of the process. Early integration of fairness, inclusivity, and shared decision-making helps establish trust and legitimacy; prerequisites for sustained collaboration.

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  Chocolate Bushbabies: Cocoa Agroforests as Habitat for Galagos (Galagidae) in the Ashanti Region, Ghana

  In this study, we conducted passive acoustic surveys for galagos (Family: Galagidae) in 38 cocoa agroforests in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. We trained a YOLOv5 convolutional neural network model using a dataset of galago vocalisations from across sub-Saharan Africa to enable automatic detection of galago calls.

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  Exploring the potential of Multicropping in the UK

  This report presents the key outcomes and research priorities emerging from AGRIIH's workshop on Exploring the Potential of Multicropping in the UK. It captures discussions across agronomy, ecology, economics and food systems, and outlines an emerging interdisciplinary research agenda.

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  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.

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  NbSI at London Climate Action Week

  NbSI joined London Climate Action Week, advocating for aligned action on nature and climate across law, food systems and climate governance. Prof Nathalie Seddon addressed the National Emergency Briefing for Law - a new climate conversation highlighting the need action to put climate and nature at the heart of decision making across the legal profession.

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  Too big to fail: critical natural systems as macro-critical infrastructure

  The economic, finance and governance implications of 'systemically important' natural systems, a policy insight.

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  A roadmap for UK pulses: nature, net zero and nutrition

  Beans and pulses have the potential to support soil health, lower-carbon diets, and human nutrition - but despite these benefits, consumption and production in the UK remains low. A new Science-Policy project built a roadmap towards realising the benefits of pulses - for nature, net zero and nutrition - in practice in the UK.

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  A roadmap for UK pulses: Releasing pulses’ potential for nutrition, nature and net-zero

  This roadmap builds on previous research, stakeholder interviews and multi-stakeholder workshops to identify shared priorities and pathways for action. Its aim is not to prescribe a single solution, but to explore how different parts of the pulse system may need to evolve together over time.

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  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.

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  People’s Emergency Briefing: responding to the climate and nature crises

  After the National Emergency Briefing set out the evidence behind the growing climate and nature emergencies to 1,200 national decision-makers, the People's Emergency Briefing film is putting the evidence in the hands of the public. Communities across the country are hosting screenings with their MPs and discussing how to respond.

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  NbS Foundation Course kicks off: Meet the Scholars

  We are delighted to welcome the newest cohort to the NbS Foundation Course and congratulate the scholars who have been selected for several highly competitive full and partial scholarships! Over the following weeks participants will explore the interdisciplinary landscape of NbS, from their role in climate mitigation and adaptation, to economics and sustainable development, and how they can be embedded in policy, finance and business.

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  How to Save the Amazon

  In honour of journalist Dom Philips and indigenista Bruno Pereira, a gathering of Indigenous leaders, human rights and environmental defenders, researchers and practitioners came together on Earth Day to celebrate their lives and build hope for 'How to Save the Amazon.' The new book uncovers drivers of deforestation and searches for solutions; it explores how we can fight ecological destruction and stand in solidarity with the frontline defenders of the Amazon.

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  Oxford-MSPO INSPIRE Lab: Innovation for a Sustainable Palm Oil Regenerative Economy,

  INSPIRE Lab is an exciting new partnership between the University of Oxford’s Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment and Malaysian Sustainable Palm Oil (MSPO), focused on advancing knowledge, innovation, and policy for an inclusive, climate-resilient, and nature-positive palm oil sector.

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  Join the Nature-based Solutions Symposium: Who benefits, who decides, who pays?

  Despite their potential, the adoption of Nature-based Solutions has been piecemeal and nowhere near the scale needed to address the societal challenges we face. Join researchers, practitioners and policymakers at the Nature-based Solutions Symposium June 2026 to explore four crucial questions for enabling NbS to tackle pressing societal and environmental challenges: Who benefits? Who decides? Who pays? What’s missing? Earlybird registration open until 27th May 2026.

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  From Risk to Resilience: How Scaling Nature-Based Solutions Across Production Landscapes Can Future-Proof Business

  The opportunity is clear: businesses that invest early in high integrity NbS will secure supply, reduce risk, build co-benefits for carbon and economic value, and capture growing market and investor demand for credible nature-positive action.

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  Science vs politics: Why the Soy Moratorium is critical for protecting the Amazon

  The Soy Moratorium is a landmark agreement between soybean traders, governments and civil society to avoid the purchase of soy produced on land deforested in the Amazon. In early 2026 the Brazilian Association of Vegetable Oil Industries (ABIOVE) announced its withdrawal from the Moratorium. NbSI Research Fellow Aline Soterroni explains why this decision goes against the science.

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  At the interface of science and policy: IPBES12 Plenary on Business and Biodiversity

  Following a week of negotiations in Manchester, more than 150 governments have approved the Summary for Policymakers of the new Assessment: Impact and Dependence of Business on Biodiversity and Nature’s Contributions to People. The BizBiodiversity Assessment makes it unequivocally clear that all businesses depend on and impact biodiversity and can be agents of positive change.

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  Apply for our next NbS Foundation Course – Earlybird discount available

  Limited earlybird discount places available for our next NbS to Global Challenges Foundation Course (April 2026). Apply now to gain a solid foundation in the science, policy, practice, finance, and governance of nature-based solutions

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  Building Agricultural Resilience Together: AGRIIH at Oxford Real Farming Conference

  AGRIIH had a busy start to the year, working to bridge research and practice for agricultural resilience, with a successful Research Showcase, a panel at the Oxford Real Farming Conference and live-mural painting.

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  Nature, Food, and Farming Research

  Co-created by AGRIIH and Agile, this catalogue brings together a wide range of programmes, projects, and researchers across the University of Oxford whose work engages with key challenges in food, farming, and nature. It has been developed to support new conversations, connections, and collaborations between practitioners, policymakers, researchers, and organisations working across sustainable food, farming, land stewardship and rural futures.

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  Addressing the challenges of managing and monitoring biodiversity in High Conservation Value areas and High Carbon Stock forests within oil palm landscapes

  Protecting areas of natural habitat is an approach that is used to help conserve biodiversity in oil palm plantations. Their size and location affect the biodiversity of these sites and the management of sites is vital for ensuring their natural ecosystems remain in good condition and for maintaining forest canopy cover.

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  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.

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  The AGRIIH Showcase

  The AGRIIH Showcase brings together interdisciplinary research and dialogue at University of Oxford around agricultural resilience, exploring how research, practice, and collaboration can address challenges across nature, food, and farming systems. The exhibition highlights key themes including working with nature, technology and innovation, governance and values, and co-creating resilient futures. Explore the exhibition panels to learn more about the questions, approaches, and research areas featured at the Showcase.

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  Ecosystem collapse recognised as a critical national security issue by UK government

  The UK Government has just released a report that, if taken seriously, should transform how we think about climate, nature and security. 'Global biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and national security' is an official national security assessment that applies the same analytical tools used for high-impact security threats - structured uncertainty judgements, confidence levels, and “reasonable worst-case” planning - to the ecological crisis. Its conclusions align closely with the evidence presented at the recent National Emergency Briefing and with the World Economic Forum's latest Global Risks Report.