Researchers are sharing their experiences related to ecosystem services in global policy dialogue through the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).
While land and water resources are rich in the coastal zone of Bangladesh, they are underutilized, and farmers are challenged by climate change and extreme weather events.
The Landscapes for People, Food and Nature (LPFN) initiative, in cooperation with Bioversity, is planning to write a white paper on the subject of Integrated Landscape Management (ILM) as it relates to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
A working group, led by Bioversity International with funding from WLE, is working to understand how the UN Sustainable Development Goals can be leveraged for conservation and human well-being by identifying links between ecosystem services and achieving SDG goals.
An interview with Dr. Oliver Springate-Baginski, lecturer at the University of East Anglia and lead on a WLE Greater Mekong project based in Kachin state, Myanmar.
The control of pests by their natural enemies represents an important ecosystem service that has the potential to mitigate pest control costs and crop yield loss. The value of ecosystem services to agriculture is enormous and often under-appreciated.
A project to gather data on the country’s freshwater resources and the management of its river flows will take three years, workshop participants heard on June 16. U Bo Ni, director of the Watershed Management Division in the Ministry of Environment Conservation and Forestry, said the data collection would be carried out by local and foreign experts in collaboration with the ministry, concluding in 2018.
Experts have put maximum emphasis on the Ecosystems- based appr-oach to further intensify the food production to contribute more in the national economy side by side with meeting the nutritional demands of own people in Bangladesh, reports BSS.
