Attaining Sustainable Services from Ecosystems through Trade-off Scenarios
Collaborator from Southampton University, Conservation International, CIAT, Chancellor College Malawi and Rhodes University working together to fight poverty and food insecurity.
22/03/2017
Interesting study on "Decline of forest products around tropical small villages" http://ow.ly/JUo930a8Pet
Detail In small village communities around the globe, local resources are often not used sustainably. A study based on 233 village analyses showed that at...
RT : work is being presented at 1245 time. Watch live https://t.co/RLOhXbypd1
14/11/2016
Livelihood diversification: The role of charcoal production in southern Malawi http://ow.ly/6ON73068L7m; new pub associated ESPA Directorate
Livelihood diversification: The role of charcoal production in southern... Charcoal provides direct and indirect benefits that reduce producers' overall vulnerability to financial insecurity, food insecurity and stress
01/11/2016
The ESPA Deltas Project Final Conference - 2016: Sustainable Development Goals in Deltas - 22 to 23 Nov'16 http://ow.ly/FW5n305JL9U
ESPADeltas - 2016: Sustainable Development Goals in Deltas The Ecosystem Services of river deltas often support high population densities, estimated at over 500 million people globally, with particular...
31/10/2016
FAO about ecosystem services http://ow.ly/QCDh305GVC2
Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity http://www.fao.org/agriculture/crops/thematic-sitemap/theme/biodiversity/en/ The productivity and sustainability of agriculture, forestry and...
27/09/2016
Internship to tell the ASSETS story:
Mithilfe bei internationalem Storytelling Projekt gesucht! | NARRATA Consult In Kooperation mit der Univercity of Southampton führt NARRATA Consult bietet Praktikumsplatz für ein internationales Storytelling-Projekt (ASSETS) in
11/07/2016
RT Marije Schaafsma : Malawi facing the worst food crisis in nine years- this should not happen (again and again)- http://ow.ly/XGqR3027emD
UNICEF: Malnutrition mounts as El Niño takes hold JOHANNESBURG/NAIROBI, Kenya, 17 February 2016 – Almost one million children are in need of treatment for severe acute malnutrition in Eastern and...
11/07/2016
Sounds like a very good idea!
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations and Google Maps have entered into a three-year partnership to work together and make remote sensing and mapping products more accessible.The move aims to provide technology to assist countries tackling climate change and much higher capacity to experts developing forest and land-use policies. Read more >>http://bit.ly/29qStHZ
30/06/2016
A new ASSETS paper from our Colombian team is available!
A methodological approach for the non-monetary valuation of ecosystem... To conduct a non-monetary valuation of ecosystem services, this study explored combining data on the use of ecosystem resources with...
A new, interesting FAO online course:
13/06/2016
The ASSETS PRA manual is now online as an ESPA working paper.
http://www.espa.ac.uk/espa-working-paper-series
ESPA Working Paper Series | Ecosystems Services for Poverty Alleviation (ESPA) The ESPA Working Paper Series provides a platform to share significant findings and learning from ESPA research projects.
09/05/2016
RT : Positive evaluation of included in report ow.ly/4nvgF2
From the Amazon to the Yangtze, ESPA is a Catalyst for Change | Ecosystems Services for Poverty... Evaluation company Jigsaw has analysed and reported on the outcomes and impact of five key ESPA projects, verifying that its research played "a key role in catalysing change".
