What we know about how biodiversity and poverty are linked: The good, the bad and the ugly | International Institute for Environment and Development

What we know about how biodiversity and poverty are linked: The good, the bad and the ugly | International Institute for Environment and Development

 

There is an explicit assumption in international policy statements
that conserving biodiversity can help in efforts to tackle global
poverty, writes IIED researcher Dilys Roe in a new blog --> http://www.iied.org/what-we-know-about-how-biodiversity-poverty-are-linked-good-bad-ugly - private

 

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"Is conserving biodiversity inseparable from the fight against poverty?
Our review revealed a surprisingly patchy evidence base to support this
claim. This is not to say that the lack of evidence disproves the
claim, but rather that only a very small subset of biodiversity has
actually been studied."

 

Some
ecological settings, such as drylands, which are home to a high
proportion of the world’s poor, are poorly studied and have become the
neglected 'ugly duckling' of biodiversity research (Photo: Marie
Monimart)