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By Martin Hall (Climate Investment Funds). Originally published at the World Bank’s The Data Blog. Readers of this blog site will know that open data is data that can be freely used, re-used and redistributed – it’s legally open and technically open.  Readers of this blog may not know that the $8.3 billion Climate Investment Funds […]

By Alan Nicol and Likimyelesh Nigussie (IWMI). This post first appeared on on The World Bank’s Governance for Development Blog.  Selilah stares out over a landscape she has inhabited for 70 years. In the valley below, deep gullies scar the slopes where rains have carried away the soil. Living with three of her four sons, she is struggling to […]

By Camila Rossi (Agroicone) and Mariana Campos (Climate Policy Initiative). In 2012, Brazil revised a key instrument of its environmental legislation – the Forest Code. When implemented, the Forest Code has the potential to enable Brazil to optimize the use of its vast territory, safeguarding areas for the conservation of native vegetation and agricultural use […]

Budiman Minasny, University of Sydney Last year, fires burned 2 million hectares of peatlands in Indonesia, creating an acrid haze that affected several neighbouring Southeast Asian countries. As nations met in Paris late last year to agree a deal to limit global greenhouse gas emissions, the huge carbon pool stored in the peatlands was going […]

By Jessica Musengezi. Originally published as Measuring Conservation Impact on Human Well-being in Kenya’s Rangelands by Cool Green Science. Conservationists spend a lot of time talking about monitoring the impacts of our work. Historically, we’ve done a great job of monitoring ecological outcomes, but unfortunately the same is not true for measuring human well-being outcomes. As […]

By Lindsey Hethcote and Alexander Wankel (Pachakuti Foods). Originally published as ‘The Aynoka Landscape of Peru, where communities are protecting quinoa diversity‘ by Landscapes for People, Food and Nature. Before it was on the shelves of Whole Foods, quinoa was being abandoned in most parts of the Andes as an unwanted “food of the poor.” However, the […]