Local action for common good is this year’s focus at the 7th Ecosystem Services Partnership (ESP) Conference, 8-12 September 2014, Costa Rica
WLE and partners will be putting special emphasis on the important ecosystem services provided to and from agricultural landscapes. WLE’s new Ecosystem Services and Resilience Framework will also be launched during the conference period. Have a sneak preview by looking at the Ecosystem Services and Resilience Framework Flyer and Ecosystem Services and Resilience Poster.
This page will feature updates, presentations and more. You can also follow #ESPConf7 on Twitter.
Blog posts and presentations from the ESP Conference
- The PES laboratory of the world by Camilla Zanzanaini and Fabrice DeClerck
- The incompatibility of ecosystem-based agriculture with business thinking (reporting back from the joint session) by Bioversity International
- Presentation: Coffee berry borer (Hypothenemus hampei) removal in coffee plantations: a pest control service provided by birds by Alejandra Martinez, Bioversity/CATIE/Uni. of Idaho
Other presentations linked below.
Key full-day WLE session on Wednesday 10th September
Morning keynote by Christine Negra, Ecoagriculture Partners (8:30) followed by session:
Ecosystem Services in healthy rural landscapes (10:30-16:45)
led by Louise Willemen (EcoAgriculture Partners) and Fabrice DeClerck (Bioversity International)
Morning Session
- 10:30 – Introduction by Fabrice DeClerck, Bioversity International
- 10:40 – The Conservation Perspective by Celia Harvey, Conservation International
- 11:00 – The role of certification of agro-commodity goods on ecosystem service flows, Jeff Milder, Rainforest Alliance
- 11:20 – Productive agriculture needs and provides ecosystem services by Anne Bogdanski, FAO
- 11:40 – TEEB for Food and Agriculture by Dustin Miller, UNEP-TEEB
- 12:10 – Panel Discussion: Frameworks and Perspectives
Afternoon Session
- 1:30 – The role of science to support healthy rural landscapes by Louise Willemen, EcoAgriculture Partners/ITC University of Twente
- 13:50 – A rapid approach for assessing agroecological function in homegardens of Timor Leste by Simon Attwood, Bioversity International
- 14:05 – Understanding water benefit trade-offs in Lower Mekong Basin: example from a hydropower reservoir in Vietnam by Yumiko Kura, WorldFish
- 14:20 – Ecosystem-based adaptation for smallholder farmers in agricultural landscapes in Central America: opportunities and constraints by Celia Harvey, Conservation International
- 14:35 – Environmental services in agricultural landscapes: scale-dependent effects and households adaptive capability interactions by Mariella Camardelli Uzêda, EMBRAPA
- 14:50 – Exploring the conditions and implications of a design approach for healthy rural landscapes by Elsa Berthet, INR
- 15:05 – Indicators of soil ecosystem services in livestock agroecosystems at the Colombian Andes by Antonio José Solarte Sánchez, CIPAV
Break
- 15:40 – Panel Discussion of Presentations
- 16:00 – Bridging Agriculture and Conservation in the Sustainable Development Goals by Silvia Wood, Bioversity International/Earth Institute
- 16:10 – Plan of Action for 2015
Related materials
- Nepal Case study: The evolving landscape of agricultural biodiversity conservation
- Read some ecosystem services blog posts by WLE researchers and partners
- A review of last year’s conference and Ecosystem Services Month
- Publication: Managing Biodiversity in Agricultural Ecosystems (in 7 languages!)
- View this infographic on Ecosystems Services and Resilience by Bioversity International
