Finance Solutions

On January 11, BIOFN Mexico organized a workshop for officials of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (SADER, for its acronym in Spanish) to review an analysis on subsidies relevant to biodiversity that are linked to productive activities in the rural sector. The results of this analys...Read more
By Midori Paxton, Head, Ecosystems and Biodiversity, UNDP Let us step back in time to more than 2000 years ago, when Chinese philosophical and historical texts contained sophisticated conceptions of nature and our place within it. Daoism, a school of philosophical thought popular to this day, focuse...Read more
An interview with V.B. Mathur, India’s official delegate to the fourth Nairobi negotiating session of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity By Flavia Lopes, IndiaSpend Why is financing biodiversity conservation important for developing countries? What can you do without finance in your personal...Read more
By Watcharin Fasiriphorn, Mayor of Koh Tao sub-district Municipality Office, Koh Pha-ngan District, Surat Thani province, Thailand I first came here in 1987 as a public health officer for the Koh Tao Island community health post, treating patients and caring for the people here. It was not my intent...Read more