Welcome to CENFACS’ Online Diary!
02 August 2023
Post No. 311
The Week’s Contents
• Summer 2023 Triple Pack Made of Track, Trending and Trip
• Activity/Task 8 of the Influence (‘i’) Year and Project: Run/Walk with or Visit the People in Need to Positively Influence Them
• Goal of the Month: Reduction of Social Poverty
… And much more!
Key Messages
• Summer 2023 Triple Pack Made of Track, Trending and Trip
August is CENFACS’ Track, Trending and Trip month. What do we mean by that? We mean that we are on the track of poverty reduction, we walk to meet those in need and we follow the direction of poverty reduction. Let us briefly explain these key words or activities of the month making our triple pack (i.e., track, trending and trip).
• • On the Track of Poverty Reduction
We are on the Track of poverty reduction as we are looking for relief for ourselves and other people. We do Track at CENFACS as we think that every one of us can undertake basic physical activity of running or racing to help reduce poverty. In this process of tracking, we also try to reduce or eliminate poverty due to being on the wrong side of the tracks.
To basically run or race, one does not need to be part of field event. For those who cannot in-person run, they can do it virtually or online. Our project known as Run to Reduce Poverty is designed to meet that end.
This Summer, we are going to do Tracking while taking into account the treble context of lingering impacts of the coronavirus, extreme temperatures and the damaging effects of the fall in real household disposable incomes.
• • Trips or Walks to CENFACS’ Projects
August is also the month during which we carry out some Trips to our projects. We visit our projects all over the year, but August is the time we highlight this. We do a short journey to one of the places in need. It is the month of the year we walk again and reach out to the need, to the people, communities, organisations and livelihoods in need.
This Summer, we are going to undertake both Virtual or In-person Trips depending on the circumstances prone to the rising costs of living, changing climate and lingering effects of the coronavirus. We can work alone or use our social network or social wayfinding or even social trail.
• • Trendy Development
We thirdly deal with Trending in August as we spend time looking at what is popular at CENFACS in the context of poverty reduction as well as what is the current general movement or tendency in poverty reduction. This is what we can call Trendy Development; that is a development process following the latest fashions in terms of poverty reduction.
Trending in Poverty Reduction helps us to follow the direction of poverty reduction. This August we are going to follow this direction or tendency of poverty (or poverty reduction) via marine and coastal ecosystem services.
Marine and coastal ecosystem services (MCES) can help reduce poverty, particularly through provisioning and regulating services they provide. Marine and coastal ecosystems contribute or enhance climate aspects of sustainable development. However, the ability of poor people to benefit from MCES depends on barriers they face which could be related to access to resources, technology, markets and other factors.
We are interested in the specific benefits of MCES to poverty reduction. We are going to follow this direction in-person. Where we have problem to follow it in-person, we shall do it via online, video, phone, screen and digital technological means of communication and on papers (print).
• • Track, Trending and Trips in a Summer of Lingering Impacts of the Coronavirus, Extreme Temperatures and the Damaging Effects of the Fall in Real Household Disposable Incomes
The contexts of this summer are of rising costs of living, changing climate and the lingering effects of the coronavirus. We are going to integrate these factors into the theme of Summer when carrying out these three activities of August 2023: Track, Trending and Trip.
More details about CENFACS’ Track, Trending and Trips month for this year is given under the Main Development section of this post.
• Activity/Task 8 of the Influence (‘i’) Year and Project: Run/Walk with or Visit the People in Need to Positively Influence Them
As part of CENFACS’ Influence Year and Project, the activity or task to be carried out for this month is to undertake the physical activity of running or walking with the people in need. In the process of running and/or walking, one can try to positively influence them so that they can navigate or find their way towards relief.
Alternatively, one can in-person visit the people in need and try to positively influence them to explain the kind of problems they have and discuss with them the types of solutions they would like to see. The following examples can help illustrate these activities.
• • Examples of August 2023 Influencing Activities
To put into practice CENFACS’ Influence Year and Project and of the month of Track, Trip and Trending; one can proceed with either of the following Influencing Activities:
Influencing Activity 8.1: Safely and Healthily Run 2.5 miles (nearly 4 km) with people in need to create user-generated information opportunity through the use of influencing skills
Influencing Activity 8.2: Undertake Virtual or In-person Visits or Tours of 3 Influencing projects or activities; projects or activities based on influencing facts, information and skills acquired through experience or education, and which use influencing methodology and tools to support people this Summer 2023
Influencing Activity 8.3: Carry out online search to find 6 Trends in poverty reduction for projects that are based on the positive influence of people in need to navigate their way out of poverty.
The above three examples of Influence-based Activities are our way of linking our ‘i’ Year/Project and the month of Track, Trip and Trending together.
These run, walk and visit can also be done virtually if there are problems to conduct them in-person.
The above if the activity or task for the ‘i’ Year/Project for those who are interested in carrying it out. For those who want any clarification of any aspects of the activity or task, they can contact CENFACS.
• Goal of the Month: Reduction of Social Poverty
This month, we are also interested in the social aspect of poverty. This interest began last week when we asked those who would like to write a journal of Happiness and Healthiness for this Summer. The first activity of this Journal is to write about social support. This month, we are diving into social support by looking at social poverty. Sometimes, people may need social support because they are socially poor. What is social poverty?
• • Basic Understanding of Social Poverty
Our understanding of social poverty comes from Sarah Halpern-Meeken (1), who explains that
“Social poverty entails social isolation that is more than momentary, and that cannot be addressed through one’s current relational resources… What sets these feelings apart from being food insecure or socially poor is whether or not the person experiencing these feelings can access the resources necessary to address these issues… That social poverty is a subjective experience makes its consequences for physical and mental health no less real – unaddressed social isolation can raise the risks of morbidity and mortality”.
There are many examples of social poverty. To name just one is the isolation created and/or exacerbated by poor path condition or the lack of bridges for safer crossing of rivers in some places of the world, including Africa.
• • Reducing Social Poverty
Let us take the example of the isolation created and/or exacerbated by poor path condition or the lack of bridges.
Improving connection to the road network and transport services for all seasons can help reduce both isolation and social poverty. The benefits deriving from such improvements could be life-saving ones for those walking or travelling for medical reasons and outreach. How many times we hear stories or have been told that people in need of humanitarian assistance could not be reached because they were stranded in their homes/town or cut off from the rest of world and they could not access any life-saving and -changing services as they are isolated, therefore social poor. They need corridors or drones for food and medicine to be dispatched.
So, improved access through footpaths and bridges can help reduce isolation and social poverty. During this month of August 2023, CENFACS shall be working with the community to help tackle social poverty.
The above is our poverty reduction goal for this month, which we are asking to our audiences and supporters to help or promote.
Extra Messages
• Happiness and Healthiness Journal, Creative Activity No. 2: Create Your Journal of Summer Generosity
• Impact Capture and Record Your Summer Telling Moments to Report Back and Build Forward
• Summer 2023 Humanitarian Appeal Projects
• Happiness and Healthiness Journal, Creative Activity No. 2: Create Your Journal of Summer Generosity
Generosity is one of the six predictors of happiness and healthiness. One can create a journal about what they are giving (or gave) or are receiving (or received) unselfishly.
Like last Summer, this Summer is tough for many ordinary people and families since the cost-of-living crisis can only make things difficult for them. Many of these poor people and families are looking for unselfish help and support.
For those who would manage to give or receive this generous support; they can create a journal for the things, organisations and people who have been unselfishly supportive to their happiness and healthiness during this Summer 2023.
They can record their thoughts, feelings and experiences in relation to the generous support they have received or given. They can share with the community their experience of happy and healthy generous support. This can be recorded in their journal and be shared by the end of Summer 2023.
To share the contents of their happiness and healthiness journal relating to philanthropic support, and help build a better Summer holiday experience; they can contact CENFACS.
• Impact Capture and Record Your Summer Telling Moments to Report Back and Build Forward
Whether one has a Summer break or is working over this Summer, it is always a good idea to impact capture and record your memorable moments or just what you are doing.
• • Impact Capture and Record Your Summer Telling Moments as they Happen
Capture and record Summer activities (e.g., engagement activities where the people in your experience are engaged) that can lead to impact. You can look for impact when capturing and recording your Summer moments.
However, impact can be difficult to track, in particular for those who do not have experience for impact capturing and recording. You can keep track of the people who are participating in your Summer experiences. For those who are not familiar with impact capturing and recording, they can take these basic actions:
∝ Look for different types of impact
∝ Use various leads and mediums of finding and mapping impact
∝ Appeal to indicators for impact
∝ Refer to impact capturing and recording tools
∝ Decide what you need to track for your impact
etc.
These basic actions will enable them to create an impact record.
After Summer, we often ask our project beneficiaries or the community to impact report their Summer experience back. If you impact record what you are doing this Summer, after Summer it will be easier to share what you may judge is a shareable part of your Summer experience or story.
• • Do not Forget to Take Photos and Pictures, Make a Video, Record Your Voice, Podcast, etc.!
If you decide to impact capture and record your Summer activities or experiences, please do not forget to take photos and pictures, make a video, record your voice, podcast, etc. It is also useful to write down dates, places and names of people involved in your Summer projects or experiences. You can plan the way you want to impact report back, whether you want to use words or numbers or voices or information graphics (e.g. tables or graphs, figures, etc.).
Before including people around you in your recorded experience, please take care of General Data Protection Regulations. This extra care will help to protect yourself and others. If necessary, please check the policy on handling people’s information and data, including update on this policy.
• • Impact Reporting Back Your Summer Experiences to Build Forward Better Together
Impact reporting back your experiences can sometimes inspire others, especially if your experiences contain poverty-relieving features or outcomes. Sometimes what you may think is not important in your life experience could be very useful or even life-saving for others in the community. Your experiences could help to build forward better together cleaner, greener and safer.
We hope you will seriously take our message of impact capturing and recording to impact report back and build forward better together.
Thank you!
• Summer 2023 Humanitarian Appeal Projects
The 2024 Edition of our Summer Humanitarian Appeal and Campaign has now been completed and is ready for support. We have added to CENFACS’ Win against Distress in Africa the other four remaining projects making this appeal. The addition includes:
√ All Gifts for All Poor
√ International Networking and Protection against the Cost-of-living Crisis
√ Iconic Young Carer
√ ELCLASSICO International.
To support and or enquire about these appeal projects, please contact CENFACS.
Message in French (Message en français)
• Capturez l’impact et enregistrez vos moments révélateurs de l’été pour en rendre compte et construire vers l’avant
Que l’on ait une pause estivale ou que l’on travaille cet été, c’est toujours une bonne idée de capturer et d’enregistrer vos moments mémorables ou simplement ce que vous faites.
• • Capturez l’impact et enregistrez vos moments révélateurs de l’été au fur et à mesure qu’ils se produisent
Capturez et enregistrez les activités estivales (p. ex., les activités d’engagement où les personnes de votre expérience sont engagées) qui peuvent avoir un impact. Vous pouvez rechercher un impact lors de la capture et de l’enregistrement de vos moments d’été.
Cependant, l’impact peut être difficile à suivre, en particulier pour ceux ou celles qui n’ont pas d’expérience en matière de capture et d’enregistrement d’impact. Vous pouvez suivre les personnes qui participent à vos expériences estivales. Pour ceux ou celles qui ne sont pas familiers(ières) avec la capture et l’enregistrement d’impact, ils/elles peuvent prendre ces mesures de base:
∝ recherchez différents types d’impact
∝ utilisez divers moyens de recherche et de cartographie de l’impact
∝ faites appel aux indicateurs d’impact
∝ vous reportez aux outils de capture et d’enregistrement d’impact
∝ décidez de ce que vous devez suivre pour votre impact
etc.
Ces actions de base leur permettront de créer un dossier d’impact.
Après l’été, nous demandons souvent à nos bénéficiaires de projets ou à la communauté de nous faire part de leur expérience estivale. Si vous avez un impact sur ce que vous faites cet été, après l’été, il sera plus facile de partager ce que vous pourriez juger être une partie partageable de votre expérience ou de votre histoire estivale.
• • N’oubliez pas de prendre des photos et des images, de faire une vidéo, d’enregistrer votre voix, votre podcast, etc.!
Si vous décidez de capturer et d’enregistrer vos activités ou expériences estivales, n’oubliez pas de prendre des photos et des images, de faire une vidéo, d’enregistrer votre voix, votre podcast, etc. Il est également utile d’écrire les dates, les lieux et les noms des personnes impliquées dans vos projets ou expériences d’été. Vous pouvez planifier la façon dont vous souhaitez avoir un impact sur le rapport, que vous souhaitiez utiliser des mots, des chiffres, des voix ou des graphiques d’information (par exemple, des tableaux ou des graphiques, des figures, etc.).
Avant d’inclure des personnes autour de vous dans votre expérience enregistrée, veuillez prendre en compte les règles générales de protection des données. Ces soins supplémentaires vous aideront à vous protéger et à protéger les autres. Si c’est nécessaire, veuillez vérifier la politique sur le traitement des informations et des données des personnes, y compris la mise à jour de cette politique.
• • Rapport d’impact sur vos expériences estivales pour mieux construire ensemble
Le rapport d’impact de vos expériences peut parfois inspirer d’autres personnes, surtout si vos expériences contiennent des résultats de réduction de la pauvreté. Parfois, ce que vous pensez n’est pas important dans votre expérience de vie peut être très utile ou même sauver la vie d’autres membres de la communauté. Vos expériences pourraient aider à mieux construire ensemble plus proprement, plus vert et plus sûr.
Nous espérons que vous prendrez au sérieux notre message de capture et d’enregistrement d’impact pour rendre compte de l’impact et mieux construire ensemble.
Merci!
Main Development
• Summer 2023 Triple Pack Made of Track, Trending and Trip
Our thematic and working model of Summer of Happiness and Healthiness in the context of lingering impacts of the coronavirus, extreme temperatures and damaging effects of the fall in real household disposable incomes; will continue this month through the three activities of…
1) TRACK to help reduce poverty
2) Virtual or In-person TRIPS to projects and locals
3) TRENDING in poverty reduction by following the direction of poverty reduction via marine and coastal ecosystem services.
The following headings contain the elements making this model:
∝ Track, Trip and Trending 2023 Activities
∝ August 2023 Trending Activities/Programme
∝ In Focus from Wednesday 02/08/2023: Provisioning Services Provided by Marine and Coastal Ecosystems.
Let us uncover what is inside these headings.
• • Track, Trip and Trending 2023 Activities
• • • Track to Help Reduce Poverty in a Summer of Lingering Impacts of the Coronavirus, Extreme Temperatures and Damaging Effects of the Fall in Real Household Disposable Incomes
This is delivered through the project Run to Reduce Poverty, Gaming to Reduce Poverty and Vote your African Manager of Poverty Reduction. These are All-year Round Projects or Triple Value Initiatives.
However, because of the weather conditions (sunshine) and nature of August (holiday time for many of our project beneficiaries and supporters) we put a particular emphasis on the Run aspects of these all-year round projects, over this month. One can do physical run out and indoor while bearing in mind the lingering effects of the coronavirus and rising temperatures.
We expect those who sign up to the Run element to take actions and run it by themselves while following to letter any health and safety rules (e.g. Protection against the lingering effects of the coronavirus) relating to this element. After summer or at any convenient time before the end of the year, they can all report back our individual Run activity and achievements.
• • • Virtual or In-person TRIPS to Projects and Locals in a Summer of Lingering Impacts of the Coronavirus, Extreme Temperatures and Damaging Effects of the Fall in Real Household Disposable Incomes
This is the second aspect of our Summer 2023 Triple Pack or part of work over the month of August at CENFACS. We expect and advise our supporters to visit some of our projects and initiatives whether in the UK or in Africa during and around the month of August.
For those who cannot in-person or physically visit projects on the grounds, arrangements can be made between the prospective visitors and the organisations to be visited so that they can organise a virtual trip, tour or viewing.
This requires that the visitors and visiting organisations have the technology that enables this virtual tour to happen. If this is possible, we expect and advise our supporters to virtually visit some of projects and initiatives whether in the UK or in Africa during and around the month of August.
a) Visits to Projects/Initiatives within the UK
Because we are also talking about Trip to the needs in the context of lingering impacts of the coronavirus, extreme temperatures and damaging effects of the fall in real household disposable incomes; our Visit this year will be to see how these three events have affected local people and local needs as well. During the Visit, we shall have the opportunity to see in real life how these people are strategically coping to manage these events.
b) Trips to Projects/Initiatives in Africa
Trip to the need and project includes some of the experiences undertaken by CENFACS’ All-in-Development Volunteers through field work involvements and project visits, to reach out to unreached, underserved and unserved people and communities, particularly those living in remote areas of Africa. It is the kind of experiences or expeditions that we recommend to future invertebrate and vertebrate volunteers to have and report back in September or after.
These trips also help us to check if we are on the right track at helping to reduce poverty and at tracking our records for the work on the ground.
Because the theme of trending for this Summer is about Marine and Coastal Ecosystem Services, we are going to link Trip to the need on the ground in terms of what services marine and coastal ecosystems provide to reduce poverty and enhance sustainable development.
• • • TRENDING in Poverty Reduction by Following the Direction of Poverty Reduction via Marine and Coastal Ecosystem Services
Sustainable development does not need to be trendy, but we can follow the latest fashions in sustainable development and poverty reduction.
This August, we are dealing with Trending in poverty reduction by following the direction of poverty reduction via marine and coastal ecosystem services and their capacity in lifting people out poverty. We mean by that we are following the direction of poverty reduction via marine and coastal ecosystem services.
In order to make sense of our trending activity, let us briefly explain marine and coastal ecosystem services and their relationship with poverty reduction.
• • • • Basic Understanding of Marine and Coastal Ecosystem Services
To understand Marine and Coastal Ecosystem Services, we are going to first define ecosystem. Then, we shall briefly explain marine and coastal ecosystem.
a) Defining ecosystem
The definition of ecosystem used here is the one provided by the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2), which is
“Ecosystem is a dynamic complex of plant, animal, and micro-organism communities and the non-living environment interacting as a functional unit. Humans are an integral part of ecosystems”.
From this definition of ecosystem, it is possible to deduct the meaning of marine and coastal ecosystem.
b) Meaning of marine and coastal ecosystem
According to the Oxford Dictionary of Environment and Conservation written by Chris Park (3), marine ecosystem is
“A saltwater aquatic ecosystem that includes estuaries and coastal areas, along with the open sea and oceans” (p. 269)
The same dictionary explains coast as
“The zone where the land meets the sea, which is the boundary between terrestrial and marine environmental systems” (p. 86)
Coastal ecosystem is the ecosystem that applies to the zone where the land meets the sea.
From the above-mentioned definitions, we can now try to understand marine and coastal ecosystem services.
c) What are marine and coastal ecosystem services?
The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (op. cit.) states that
“Ecosystem services are the benefits people obtain from ecosystems. These include provisioning, regulating, supporting and cultural services.”
Marine and coastal ecosystem services (MCES) are therefore the advantages and positive aspects of marine and coastal life that ecosystems provide to humans.
MCES contribute a lot to human lives. In the context of our activity of looking at MCES, we are specifically interested in how these services are helping people to reduce and possibly end poverty. This does not mean that the other contributions or benefits of MCES are irrelevant. It just means that we are going to focus on what MCES are doing to people in need in order for them to escape from poverty and hardships. And if MCES can do something about poverty, this could suggest that there could be relationship between MCES and poverty reduction.
• • • • Possible Relationships between MCES and Poverty Reduction
There are various relations between MCES and poverty reduction if one considers each service making the MCES as well as the whole MCES. It is possible to identify these relationships if one takes into account the well known classification of MCES in terms of provisioning, regulating, cultural and supporting services. There are studies carried out about these relationships. There are research findings that recognise the relationships between provisioning and regulating MCES and poverty reduction, while making in doubt the relationships between cultural MCES and poverty reduction.
• • • • • Example of study on the relationships between ecosystem services and poverty alleviation
If one refers to the conceptual framework for linking ecosystem services to poverty alleviation provided by Katrina Brown et al. (4), this framework enables the analysis of important aspects of the relationship between ecosystem services and poverty alleviation. There are benefits and value of MCES to poor people in terms of the capacity of poor to benefit from them and of poor-perspective value of MCES.
Katrina Brown et al. (op. cit.) argue that the ability of poor to benefit from ecosystem services depend on barriers to benefit from these services; barriers relating to access to resources, technology, markets and other factors.
They conclude in their synthesis report that
“Access to ecosystem services is mediated by a range of societal factors [like gender, migration, health status, age, occupation, etc.], and is not merely a product of scarcity or abundance of a resource” (p. 66)
“It is important to understand the multiple and interacting processes and factors which make people dependent on ecosystem services and vulnerable to change in ecosystem services” (p. 66)
The above indicates that there are areas whereby there could a link or no link between MCES and poverty reduction.
From what has being argued about the above mentioned relationships, we will be observing how MCES are doing to hep reduce poverty and enhance sustainable development. We will be looking at the extent to which MCES can be poverty reducer and sustainability enhancer.
So, we will be following the direction of poverty reduction via marine and coastal ecosystem services in a Summer of lingering impacts of the coronavirus, extreme temperatures and damaging effects of the fall in real household disposable incomes. This is what will be trending at CENFACS. More details about this trending is given below.
• • August 2023 Trending Activities or Programme
August 2023 Trending Activities or Programme will focus on commonly known four types of MCES and how they can help reduce poverty and enhance sustainable development. These MCES are: provisioning, regulating, cultural and supporting services. To follow them, we need a plan.
• • • August 2023 Working Plan about Marine and Coastal Ecosystem Services
The following table (table no. 1) summarises our August 2023 plan of work from every Wednesday.
On 30 and 31 August 2023, we will be conducting impact monitoring and evaluation of August 2023 Trending Activities or Programme.
If you are interested in this trending programme, please share with us your experience or comments about it.
Further explanation about this August month’s activities can be obtained from CENFACS.
• • In Focus from Wednesday 02/08/2023: Provisioning Services Provided by Marine and Coastal Ecosystems
Before explaining how we are going to follow the direction of poverty reduction here, let us first understand the provisioning services provided by marine and coastal ecosystems.
• • • Provisioning Services Provided by Marine and Coastal Ecosystems
• • • • What are Provisioning Services?
There are many definitions within the marine and coastal literature about provisioning services provided by marine and coastal ecosystems. Most of these definitions tend to be similar. One of them comes from the website ‘biodiversity.fi’ (5) that states
“Provisioning services are tangible products that people obtain from ecosystems. These include food, water, raw materials, energy and genetic resources…Provisioning services are vital in the human economy and have often well-developed markets and valuation systems”.
For example, Katrina Brown at al. (op. cit.) summarise in a table in their synthesis report about ecosystem services the following ecosystem services and key ecosystems providing services to poor coastal dwellers.
The ecosystem services they mention include building materials (e.g. poles, limestone), fuel (wood and charcoal), fisheries, aquaculture, agricultural products, other natural products (e.g. honey), employment and income, medicines, fresh water, seaweed production, and tourism income.
The key ecosystems providing services they refer to are mangroves and coral reefs, mangroves and coastal forests, all marine habitats, coastal land, mangroves, coastal forests, systems providing provisioning services, forests, mangroves and seawater, forests, coastal waterways, shallow lagoons, coral reefs, and beaches.
What is important is not the question whether or not marine and coastal ecosystems supply services to humans. What is at stake here is about how these products or services can help to reduce poverty for those living in poverty. In order to know that these products/services are helping to reduce poverty, it is better to follow the direction of poverty via provisioning services provided by marine and coastal ecosystems. We can historically follow that direction and/or currently get on track of it.
• • • Following the Direction of Poverty Reduction via Provisioning Services Provided by Marine and Coastal Ecosystems
Provisioning services provided by marine and coastal ecosystems do help to reduce poverty. Amongst these provisioning services, fisheries and building materials are the most spoken about. Small scale fishing provides food, livelihood and source of income opportunities to marine and coastal poor and local people. Aquaculture is also being mentioned as a key provisioning service for marine and coastal poor. Mangroves and coral reefs provide ecosystem services for the local poor in terms of poverty reduction.
Those who are gifted enough and live in the marine and coastal areas, they have the opportunity, if they have permitted access, to have marine and coastal products to feed themselves, to cure themselves from disease, to maintain their lifestyle, to have fresh water, etc. Those who live beyond the perimeter of marine and coastal zones can as well enjoy the provisioning services provided by marine and coastal ecosystems as long as transport of marine and coastal products allowed it or if they can afford to buy provisioning services traded in markets.
If that is the case, then it is possible to observe or follow the journey of marine and coastal products and check how they are helping to reduce poverty. In this observation and journey, it is better to consider marine and coastal products as they come from the sea and coast. This way, one can better seize their impact on poverty reduction and on poor marine and coastal people.
The above is our trending work from Wednesday 02 to 08/08/2023; work which has already started.
To follow with us the direction of poverty reduction via provisioning services provided by marine and coastal ecosystems, please contact CENFACS.
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• References
(1) Halpern-Meeken, S. (2020), Social Poverty and Relational Resources, Vol. 19, Issue 2 at https://doi.org/10.1177/1536504220920195 (accessed in August 2023)
(2) https://www.millenniumassessment.org/documents/document.431.aspx.pdf# (accessed in August 2023)
(3) Park, C., (2011), Oxford Dictionary of Environment and Conversation, Oxford University Press, Oxford & New York
(4) Brown, K., Daw, T., Rosendo, S., Bunce, M. & Cherrett, N., (2008), Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation: Marine and Coastal Situational Analysis; Synthesis Report at https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/57a08bb640f0b652dd000e36/MarineandCoastal_Synthesis-Report.pdf (accessed in August 2023)
(5) https://www.biodiversity.fi/ecosystemservices/services/provisioning/ (accessed in August 2023)
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