These scoping studies have contributed to shaping the REDAA programme strategy and grant calls, identifying research-to-action gaps, challenges and opportunities to help both people and nature thrive.
Intersectional inequalities to consider in action to address environmental degradation
Synergies between biodiversity and land degradation goals and reducing gender and intersectional inequalities cannot be presumed, they must be created and nurtured.
Low-tech, bottom-up, place-based approaches to addressing environmental degradation
The 2019 IPBES Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystems is clear: biodiversity is declining faster than at any time in human history but declining less rapidly on land managed by Indigenous Peoples than on other lands.
Trade-offs between poverty alleviation and environmental restoration
Both poverty alleviation and ecosystem restoration currently sit high on international agendas. Though there are trade-offs in practice to achieving those goals. This scoping study provides an overview of the current research landscape on trade-offs between environmental restoration and poverty alleviation.