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-45 practices not yet assessed for evidence strength.
Most practices in: United States of America (14) · Australia (9) · Brazil (9)
Bulgaria's CAP Strategic Plan pays farmers €1.03bn in eco-schemes and €558M for climate/environment rural-development measures (2023-2027), but monitoring finds Natura 2000 grassland …
One of Plan Vivo's founding projects paid ~1,000 Mozambican smallholders near Gorongosa National Park $242.60/ha over 7 years for agroforestry carbon, but …
Since 1999 South Korea's Han River Act has charged Seoul, Incheon and Gyeonggi-do water users KRW 170 per m3 to fund upstream …
Colombia's Resolution 1517/2012 created a mandatory, ratio-based (up to 9:1) biodiversity offset system for mining and infrastructure licensing. Case studies quantify offset …
Flemish agri-environment PES: 2,529 farmers received €11.1M in 2025 for managing 5,948 ha of agricultural land for biodiversity — botanical grasslands, flower …
FORAGUA pools water tariff revenues from 14 southern Ecuador municipalities to conserve 337,000 ha of cloud forest and páramo; the ~US$389k annual …
DENR contracted communities to plant 1.5B trees on 1.5M ha of public forestland at >US$700M cost. World Bank evaluation (2024): 6 pp …
Hungary pays ~€115/ha/yr (Decree 269/2007, updated under CAP 2023–27) for Natura 2000 grassland maintenance. 250,000 ha enrolled; 7,500+ farmers paid; €19M disbursed …
PNG's first UNFCCC REDD+ pilot: 164 clans (~15,000 people) hold Hunstein Range forest under Verified Carbon Standard credits — 4.09M credits issued …
In November 2024, The Bahamas refinanced US$300m of commercial debt via Standard Chartered, backed by an IDB guarantee, to fund the Bahamas …
In September 2022, Barbados converted US$150m of costly debt into a cheaper Blue Loan backed by IDB and TNC guarantees, redirecting an …
A 2008–2012 CARE/WWF pilot paid upstream farmers in Tanzania's Uluguru Mountains — source of 90% of Dar es Salaam's water — to …
Since 2018, Zambian Breweries (AB InBev) and WWF Zambia have run a phased water partnership in the Kafue basin, now in a …
Since 2010, Chile's Law 20.412 has paid smallholder and family farmers via INDAP/SAG competitive rounds to restore degraded agricultural soils; 2025 Biobío-region …
Since FY2015-16, India's Finance Commission redirects 7.5-10% of central tax revenue to states by forest cover, moving ~$6.9-$12bn/year (2015-19) and ~$11.1bn in …
ArcelorMittal Liberia funds co-management of the 11,533 ha East Nimba Nature Reserve, home to chimpanzees, the Nimba toad and otter shrew, as …
Rio Tinto's Oyu Tolgoi mine runs an 80,000 km² landscape biodiversity offset (~880x its footprint); WCS-verified khulan (~36,000) and goitered gazelle (~28,500) …
Botswana's national CBNRM policy (2007, piloted since the 1990s) channels tourism and hunting revenue to ~100 community trusts covering ~22% of national …
Since the 1980s Bangladesh's Forest Department has leased degraded state land to landless growers who plant trees, sharing timber-auction proceeds 40-65% with …
Since 2014 New Zealand's national biodiversity-offsetting guidance has let developers offset unavoidable habitat loss through resource consents aiming for 'no net loss' …
From the late 1970s, the Haryana village of Sukhomajri built check dams and a community water-rights institution (HRMS) that cut siltation into …
The World Bank's $150M 'Rhino Bond' (2022-2027) funds anti-poaching at two South African reserves via roughly $10M in conservation payments, with investor …
A World Bank-backed project (2008-2020) set out to reforest up to 1,500 ha of Trinidad's Ramsar-listed Nariva Swamp for carbon and livelihoods, …
Cyprus's 2014-2020 Rural Development Programme put 36,742 hectares under agri-environment-climate contracts and paid farmers across its 63-site, 1,789km2 Natura 2000 network, backed …
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