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-202 practices not yet assessed for evidence strength.
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To keep nitrates out of its mineral-water aquifer, Vittel (Nestlé Waters) pays catchment farmers via the Agrivair intermediary to adopt low-input agriculture …
Since 1999, TIST has organised smallholder farmers into self-governing 'small groups' across Kenya, Uganda (incl. Soroti), Tanzania and India. Verra's verified count: …
Since 2000, Pimampiro's municipal water fund has paid 27 upstream households US$8–12 per hectare per year to conserve 638 hectares of forest, …
On 6 December 2022 Tierra del Fuego's legislature unanimously created a 10,341 km2 protected area over Península Mitre, safeguarding ~2,400 km2 of …
Since 2021, PAMS Foundation and Trees for All have signed 30-year leases with 100+ farmers in Tanzania's Nguru Mountains, replanting 270,000+ native …
Cuenca's municipal utility ETAPA has co-managed the ~29,000-hectare Parque Nacional Cajas — source of the rivers that supply the city's drinking water …
Since 2019, Rewilding Ukraine has restored wetlands and steppe in the Danube Delta with Endangered Landscapes Programme funding; despite Russia's 2022 invasion, …
Since 1983, Croatian firms have paid a statutory levy on revenue into a fund for karst-forest restoration, fire infrastructure and demining; by …
Since 2018 the Greater Cape Town Water Fund has cleared 46,000+ hectares of invasive alien vegetation, recovering 15.2 billion litres of water …
About one-third of Hong Kong's land — roughly 30,000 ha — is gazetted as protected Water Gathering Grounds feeding 17 reservoirs; 16 …
Singapore treats two-thirds of its land as protected water catchment — including the 2,880 ha Central Catchment Nature Reserve — so local …
Since 1873, Vienna has piped untreated drinking water from two protected Alpine catchments (675 km²), avoiding filtration-plant costs; its forestry department manages …
Moldova's forestry programme restored 20,300+ ha of degraded land and issued 851,911 carbon credits since 2003; a new 2023-2032 plan backed by …
A $20.9M World Bank/GEF/Sida-financed programme helped 229 Albanian upland communities sustainably manage 12,320ha of forest and pasture, avoiding an est. 811,262 tCO2e …
In 2021, Fiji became the first Small Island Developing State to sign a World Bank FCPF Emission Reductions Payment Agreement, worth up …
Since 2009, Agua Somos has pooled Bogotá's water utility, The Nature Conservancy, Fundación Bavaria and public/multilateral funders into a COP $4.6 billion …
Since 1941, Dutch regional water boards have run a nationwide muskrat/coypu control programme to stop dike-burrowing damage; in 2025 they trapped 84,438 …
Jordan revived the ancient Hima communal rangeland system at Bani Hashem in the Zarqa River Basin, using rotational grazing exclusion to nearly …
Tunisia's national oasis strategy channelled a $6.34M GEF/World Bank-financed project through farmer associations (GDA) to reward sustainable land management across the country's …
A 1987 referendum (58% approval) enshrined moor protection in the Swiss constitution; ~550 raised bogs and 1,200+ fens are now safeguarded nationally. …
Colombia's first Habitat Bank to issue tradeable Voluntary Biodiversity Credits protects 340 ha of Andean cloud forest in Támesis, Antioquia; each credit …
Goat and rat eradication (2016–2018) on the barren islet of Redonda triggered a peer-reviewed sixfold+ rebound in an endemic ground lizard and …
Plan Vivo-verified REDD+ project protecting 110,500 ha of Hadza and Datoga community land in northern Tanzania, avoiding a cumulative 652,082 tCO2 by …
Lithuania pays farmers under Measure 10 of its CAP Plan to manage biodiversity grasslands, protect wetlands and cut farm emissions; 2015-2022 the …
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