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Book (stand-alone)Delivering restoration outcomes for biodiversity and human well-being
Resource guide to Target 2 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework
2024Also available in:
This publication serves as a comprehensive resource guide to help countries implement Target 2 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KM-GBF). Created for Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and other partners, it offers essential guidance, practical recommendations, and background information to maximize the impact of restoration efforts across various ecosystems. By building on existing initiatives like the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, this guide provides a pathway for integrating restoration into national biodiversity plans, offering tools and support to help countries achieve a balanced net gain for both people and nature. -
Book (stand-alone)Livelihoods-based restoration of inland aquatic ecosystems for poverty reduction, food and nutrition security and biodiversity conservation
Guidance for policymakers and practitioners on putting livelihoods first in ecosystem restoration
2025Also available in:
No results found.Two important imbalances in the dialogue on ecosystem restoration are addressed. First, the over-focus on ecological objectives as the entry point. Second, the under-recognition of the importance of and opportunities for restoration of inland aquatic ecosystems. Most current general forums, literature and guidelines on ecosystem restoration emphasise ecological approaches and/or outcomes for nature. Human well-being, and more rarely livelihoods benefits, are often implied but not always central. The approach here does so, adopting a people-centred approach that addresses the objectives of livelihoods, poverty reduction and food and nutrition security. Ecological outcomes are seen as a tool to achieve this end and co-benefit of it. The approach significantly changes how ecosystem restoration is assessed, planned, implemented, monitored, and funded, trade-offs among winners and losers become more transparent and central, local knowledge is prioritised over scientific/technical approaches and local communities are placed central to the design and implementation of interventions. Apart from human rights, justice and equity considerations and alignment with development goals and priorities, a people-centred approach with a focus on livelihoods, poverty and food security is more likely to deliver sustainable outcomes, including for biodiversity, particularly where local communities are empowered to manage the direct use of these ecosystems for livelihoods benefits. The guidance provides only a brief introduction to the topic through a set of principles, relevant conceptual frameworks, a theory of change and key considerations in designing an ecosystem restoration programme or project. The intention is, where necessary, to shift the policy approach and how practitioners use associated guidance on relevant topics. Throughout, examples from inland aquatic ecosystems in developing countries are provided to illustrate the topics. -
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetConservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and natural resources for community well-being
The example of Ecuador’s Napo Province
2020Also available in:
During the 2015-2020 period, the Ecuador country office of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) implemented the "GEF Conservation and Well-being in Napo project". This initiative was part of an agreement between the provincial government of Napo and Ecuador's Ministry of Environment, and was funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) with contributions from public and private organizations and civil society. Working directly with almost 2 800 families grouped in 16 associations and 25 indigenous and farming communities, the project helped to make environmental conservation into a development opportunity. Thanks to strong inter-institutional cooperation, and in partnership with five municipalities in the province of Napo, excellent results were achieved in terms of conservation, namely: i) the establishment of conservation agreements for 7 369.3 hectares and about 57 000 hectares under plans for co-management; ii) a 17 percent decrease in the provincial rate of deforestation; and iii) estimated emissions reduction of 3 998 945 Mg CO2eq and an increase in carbon sequestration of 57 990 Mg CO2eq. Likewise, progress was made in production sustainability: i) 1 370 families incorporated good agricultural practice (GAP) in almost 2 000 hectares of cocoa, naranjillas and pastures, and added value in these chains (fine flavour cocoa with organic certification, naranjilla juice, among others); and ii) seven sustainable community tourism initiatives were strengthened, as were bio-enterprises in five products (guayusa, vanilla, orchids, palm fibre, tikaso), which generated an increase in income ranging from 25 percent to doubling in certain cases. This made it possible to internalize and cover production costs, guaranteeing better indicators of cost effectiveness in the medium term.
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