Ecosystem services blog posts

Freely-available satellite data can help assess water management interventions in sub-Saharan Africa’s smallholder irrigation schemes.

A series of e-learning modules from Agro Landscapes aims to promote the systems thinking needed to transform how our agriculture and food systems interact with the environment and contribute to human wellbeing.

On World Soil Day, we argue that healthy and productive soils should be at the center of solutions targeting food system transformation, climate action and ecosystem restoration.

By “blending” grey and green infrastructure it is possible to build systems that facilitate sustainable development and conserve ecosystem services.

Two seminars convened by WorldFish, IWMI and IRRI at World Water Week focused on the importance of integrating fisheries in rice-dominated landscapes and reconsidering irrigation schemes in Asia.

The Coalition of Action 4 Soil Health – or Global Soil Hub – has been inspired by the UN Food Systems Summit and brings together countries, research organizations, farmers, the private sector and others to improve soil health.

Dams are central to Africa's climate adaptation plans, but the associated risk of malaria, particularly with small dams, requires careful planning to avert a public health crisis.

Scientists warn that restoration action is at risk of failure if it doesn't address social and political considerations.

A new special issue of the journal Ecological Restoration stresses that social inclusion must be at the heart of the ecological restoration agenda, and not just on the periphery.

As humanity looks to nature for answers to climate and development woes, wetlands are often heralded as a green panacea. What is needed is not uncritical adulation, but much greater scientific understanding.

Harnessing nuclear techniques for sustainable agriculture research: boosting nutrition, tracking environmental perturbations and assessing climate change.

Using smart business models, restoring degraded ecosystems through exclosures -- areas that are excluded from woodcutting, grazing and agricultural activities -- can be turned into a win-win.