Ram Pandit

May 6, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Atakelty Hailu |Amin Mugera |Ram Pandit |Asjad Tariq Sheikh

1 INTRODUCTION Land degradation is threatening food security in developing countries where approximately 1.26 billion people practice agriculture in ways that may not always be sustainable (Barbier & Hochard, 2016; Lal, 2004; Stevens, 2018), with adverse consequences for the environment (Nkonya et al., 2011; Stevens, 2018) and the wellbeing of farmers (Gerber et al., 2014).

Aug 9, 2023 | nature.com | Unai Pascual |David Gonzalez-Jimenez |Christopher Raymond |Simone Athayde |Sander Jacobs |Meine van Noordwijk | +26 more

AbstractTwenty-five years since foundational publications on valuing ecosystem services for human well-being1,2, addressing the global biodiversity crisis3 still implies confronting barriers to incorporating nature’s diverse values into decision-making. These barriers include powerful interests supported by current norms and legal rules such as property rights, which determine whose values and which values of nature are acted on.