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Juvy Guiñabo Jamaybay, chairperson of the Luguay Talaba Growers Association, shows off two heavy and hefty oyster bundles.
Juvy Guiñabo Jamaybay, chairperson of the Luguay Talaba Growers Association, shows off two heavy and hefty oyster bundles.
Investing in Women to Protect Nature: Lessons from the Philippines
Anabelle Plantilla, Programme Manager, BIOFIN Philippines, and Sheena Barrameda, Technical Officer, BIOFIN Philippines High in the misty uplands of Negros Occidental, women farmers carefully harvest coffee grown under forest canopies. Along the coast, women oyster growers tend to bamboo rafts, culti...Read more
Coffee connects generations. Clad presents a handful of freshly-plucked coffee cherries with her daughter Sheila Mae, who now serves as the Tambara Forest Settlers Association's Secretary. Photo: Gregg Yan
Coffee connects generations. Clad presents a handful of freshly-plucked coffee cherries with her daughter Sheila Mae, who now serves as the Tambara Forest Settlers Association's Secretary. Photo: Gregg Yan
From coffee to oysters: how women in the Philippines are unlocking biodiversity finance through GAD
In the misty uplands of Negros Occidental in the Philippines, women farmers carefully harvest ripe coffee cherries. Along the coast, women oyster growers tend to thrive in shellfish beds beneath bamboo rafts. Though separated by landscape, these communities share a common thread: they are demonstrat...Read more
Photo: Theodor Lundqvist / Unsplash
Photo: Theodor Lundqvist / Unsplash
From bird insurance to blue bonds: China tests eight new ways to fund nature
UNDP’s Biodiversity Finance Initiative (BIOFIN) in China pilots market-based solutions, from migratory bird insurance to blue bonds, in Shanghai and Shandong provinces A new wave of financial innovation is taking shape in China, where eight pioneering feasibility studies are moving from analysis to...Read more