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The 2018 UN World Water Development Report, Nature-based Solutions for Water, proposes an innovative response to water resource management challenges: nature-based solutions (NBS). It focuses in particular on water for agriculture, sustainable cities, disaster risk reduction and water quality.

The 2018 UN World Water Development Report, Nature-based Solutions for Water, proposes an innovative response to water resource management challenges: nature-based solutions (NBS). It focuses in particular on water for agriculture, sustainable cities, disaster risk reduction and water quality.

‌Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals will require a historic scaling up of investment in water. Financing Water: Investing in Sustainable Growth makes the economic case for water-related investment and charts a series of actions to better value water and ultimately facilitate investment.

The Forest business incubation toolkit by and for Forest and Farm Producer Organisations (ForBInc) is designed to demystify the concept of business incubation in the forestry sector. It presents an approach to designing and managing a business incubation process that can be applied across different types of institutions in the forestry sector.

Forest business incubation is a support process that accelerates the successful development of sustainable businesses in forest landscapes. There is much to develop. The aggregate gross annual value from smallholder producers within forest landscapes may be as much as US$1.3 trillion.

Forest Business Incubation: Towards Sustainable Forest and Farm Producer Organisation (FFPO) Businesses that Ensure Climate Resilient Landscapes demonstrates how to overcome business incubation challenges in remote forest landscapes. These may include low densities of educated entrepreneurs, high logistical costs, scarce infrastructure to differentiate products, and few capable business mentors. The book includes an introduction to the forest business incubation service delivery model, detailed case studies are presented of attempts to deliver business incubation services in forest landscapes, an analysis of the data presented by the case studies and some observations and conclusions about how best to develop forest business incubation in the service of both forests and people.