land degradation

Lessons from Practice

Private Businesses in Forest Conservation: The Case of Forestwise in Borneo Island

  • April 25, 2024

There is a need to collect and market widely a variety of goods and services which can be provided by wet-tropical forests in a sustainable manner. In that sense, carbon finance can also be useful. However, despite the global talk about carbon and biodiversity finance, this money is yet to reach communities which protect forests. A report on the work of a private company in Borneo Island, West Kalimantan, Indonesia.
Insights from Social Contexts

Land Degradation in India: A National Systems Perspective on Achievements and Challenges

  • April 11, 2024

Though there was a higher level of deforestation in India in the past, the degradation of remaining patches of natural forest has declined. According to official data, there is an increase in areas covered by forests in the country.
Notes on Strategy

Land and Ecosystem Restoration: Working with Communities, Social, Economic and Institutional Aspects

  • October 12, 2023

The fourth session of the G20 convention on land restoration focused on community restoration: its approaches and challenges.
Notes on Strategy

Opportunities for Restoration as a Business: Money does grow on Trees!

  • September 27, 2023

The voluntary carbon offsetting market is taking off after a slow start and bringing significant resources into the restoration market and is estimated to be tens of billions of dollars per year by 2030, with prices for quality projects of at least at 30 USD/Ton by 2030.
Notes on Strategy

Enabling Resources for Land Restoration: Financing, Policies, Regulations and Technology

  • September 9, 2023

Ensuring more resources for land restoration requires a set of enabling factors which this paper addresses, namely: financing, policies, regulations and technology.
Notes on Strategy

Aligning Development Policies for Green Jobs and Land and Ecosystem Restoration

  • August 29, 2023

Recently, the Government of Karnataka along with Azim Premji University, Libtech India, ATREE and the Foundation for Ecological Security has initiated work towards understanding the avenues for aligning MGNREGA with the goal of ecological restoration. This work was done as a pilot project in Chikkabalapur district of Karnataka.
Notes on Strategy

Financing Land Restoration: Challenges and What Needs to be Attempted

  • July 24, 2023

Restoring 150 million hectares of degraded agricultural land could generate USD 85 billion in net benefits to national and local economies, raise USD 30–40 billion a year in extra income for smallholder farmers, and provide additional food for close to 200 million people.
Notes on Strategy

Envisioning a National System of Land Restoration (Part 2)

  • April 14, 2023

The human development indicators of most Indian states are low. The development of its manufacturing sector is slow (though there has been higher economic growth during the last 3-4 decades) and this has slowed the transition of a land-dependent population towards industries and urban areas. All these work against the efforts towards the restoration of land in rural areas.
Notes on Strategy

Envisioning a National System of Land Restoration (Part 1)

  • March 24, 2023

It is obvious that different socio-economic and institutional factors impact land restoration in a country. These may include laws and their enforcement, economic incentives of people which in turn are determined by national and international markets and government policies; actions of organisations that are involved in restoration, etc.
Lessons from Practice

Ecological Assessment of a Biodiversity Park: Status and Future Challenges

  • February 7, 2023

The model of conservation of village commons shown by the Kunjer Gram Panchayat is easily replicable and could be applied across the state. It is recommended that regular training programmes be offered by the District Administration (Baran) where village officials from all districts in Rajasthan can be called to see the benefits associated with such conservation measures.

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