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    Watershed’s spatial targeting: Enhancing payments for ecosystem services to scale up agroecosystem restoration through nature-based solutions (BR)
    Reads: 4

    The study identifies priority catchments and rural properties for water and soil conservation and recommends redirecting PES resources toward highly degraded areas. Results are spatial prioritization outputs, not measured post-restoration changes.

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    Published: 2024
    Adapting to Sea Level Rise in Small Islands
    Reads: 4

    This technical report addresses Nature-based solutions, Climate resilience, Water management, and Community participation. It focuses on Caribbean and covers River, wetland and inland water ecosystems. Its reported or expected contributions include reduced climate and disaster risk, stronger climate resilience and adaptive capacity, stronger local capacities and livelihoods, and improved water security and watershed management.

    Author:

    Samantha Saks

    Published: 2024-05
    Scientific Article on Ecosystem-based Adaptation
    Reads: 4

    Unverified bibliographic record. A valid primary-source link or citation is required before benefits, stressors, geography, methods, or evidence can be classified.

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    Published: N/A
    Adapted Management of Ecosystems to Prevent Coastal Erosion
    Reads: 4

    Project profile for Colombia. Completed, July 2018–June 2024. IKI funding: €8,000,000. No quantified output result was identified on the linked project profile. Verified project metadata: €8,000,000 funding and the 2018–2024 implementation period

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    N/A

    Published: 2018
    Nature-based solutions promote climate change adaptation safeguarding ecosystem services
    Reads: 4

    The synthesis finds that Nature-based Solutions reduce climate risks to ecosystem services and increase multiple service provisions, while non-NbS pathways generate larger trade-offs. The evidence is global and synthesized across studies rather than a single implemented project.

    Author:

    Stella Manes, Mariana M. Vale, Artur Malecha, Aliny Pires

    Published: 2022
    Saberes ancestrales agroecológicos en el Chocó-Colombia
    Reads: 4

    Este ensayo analiza los saberes ancestrales de tradición agroecológica de los pueblos indígenas y afrocolombianos del Chocó, enfocándose en plantas medicinales. Se emplea un enfoque Constructivista-Sociocultural, combinando investigación documental y observación participante, para sistematizar y consolidar conocimientos, aportar a la identidad étnica, reconocer potencialidad agroecológica, y recomendar su inclusión en políticas públicas y planes de estudio, contribuyendo a mejorar la calidad de vida de estas comunidades.

    Beneficios/impactos reportados: Fortalecimiento identidad étnica, reconocimiento de potencial agroecológico, conservación de saberes tradicionales, mejora calidad de vida, inclusión en políticas públicas.

    Author:

    Narlisbeth Martínez Borja

    Published: 2025
    Saberes tradicionales y transición agroecológica en la Mixteca Poblana
    Reads: 4

    El artículo analiza la relación entre los saberes tradicionales campesinos y los procesos de transición agroecológica en la comunidad de Ayoxuxtla de Zapata, en la Mixteca Baja Poblana (México). Examina cómo el conocimiento local contribuye a la sostenibilidad productiva, conservación de recursos y fortalecimiento territorial, destacando la importancia de la agricultura tradicional en contextos de cambio socioambiental.

    Beneficios/impactos reportados: Fortalecimiento de prácticas agroecológicas, conservación de biodiversidad agrícola, resiliencia comunitaria, valorización del conocimiento local.

    Author:

    Jorge Maldonado García

    Published: 2024
    Scaling up Mountain Ecosystem-based Adaptation: Building Evidence and Informing Policy
    Reads: 4

    This project profile addresses Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA), and Public policy. It has global scope and covers Mountain, grassland and forest ecosystems. Its reported or expected contributions include stronger climate resilience and adaptive capacity, and improved governance and evidence-based decision-making.

    Author:

    N/A

    Published: 2020
    Scaling up Ecosystem-based Adaptation Measures in Rural Latin America
    Reads: 5

    Project profile for Costa Rica; Ecuador; Guatemala. Open project, November 2020–December 2026. IKI funding: €20,000,000. Reported results: more than 33,600 ha covered, over 46,600 vulnerable land users reached, 6,600 people trained and US$23.4 million leveraged; Costa Rican credit programmes contributed US$20.3 million

    Author:

    International Climate Initiative (IKI)

    Published: 2020
    Resilient Islands by Design: Integrating Ecosystem and Community-based Approaches
    Reads: 5

    Project profile for Dominican Republic; Grenada; Jamaica. Completed, July 2017–February 2024. The IKI regional profile verifies the 2017–2024 implementation period but does not state funding. No quantified output result was identified on the linked project profile. Verified project metadata: regional scope, three partner countries, duration and completion status; no quantified result total was stated on the accessible profile

    Author:

    The Nature Conservancy (TNC),

    Published: 2017