Nature Positive Solutions - Lexicon of Impacts™

Using the Ecological Benefits Framework

Nature-positive food systems use agricultural practices that regenerate ecosystems while nourishing communities. They balance the needs of people and the planet, ensure long-term food security, reduce environmental harm, and support more resilient rural livelihoods.

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Telling the story of nature-positive solutions.

Explained

We’ve gathered leading experts from across the globe to share the benefits we all gain by promoting nature-positive solutions.

Impact Trackers

The benefits of nature-positive solutions extend beyond just sequestering carbon. We've explored activities and outcomes of these practices applied to six areas in three continents to illustrate the extensive positive impacts that they can achieve.

Information Artworks

How can nature-positive solutions shape our future?  Discover an exhibit highlighting innovative actions that restore nature, protect biodiversity, and foster sustainable, resilient communities. Featuring select information artworks by Douglas Gayeton and Alberto Miti.

Impact Areas

International experts explore the core principles and practices that define nature-positive solutions and support the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

Lex Icons™

Lex Icons™ are an eminently useful, peer-reviewed visual language of terms and principles that describe nature-positive solutions.

Ecological Benefits Framework (EBF)

Nature-positive solutions are practices and approaches that enhance biodiversity, regenerate ecosystems, and reduce environmental harm in our agrifood systems. The positive impact of these solutions can be captured across six key areas that express the holistic connection of natural ecosystems: air, water, soil, biodiversity, equity, and carbon.

Research

Want to go deeper? Explore our curated collection of articles from scholarly journals on nature-positive solutions.

Experts

Meet the researchers, activists, investors, farmers, and experts who work every day to promote more nature-positive global and local food systems.

About

The Nature-Positive Solutions platform is produced by The Lexicon with support from CGIAR, the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, IWMI, IFPRI and CIP. Nature-Positive Solutions balance the needs of people and the planet, ensuring long-term ecological benefits, food security and livelihoods.

Team

Lexicon of Impacts is based on the Ecological Benefits Framework (EBF). This new paradigm provides a foundational architecture to radically transform global carbon, biodiversity, and ecological benefits markets. Coordinating financial institutions, UN agencies, NGOs, companies, and catalytic capital will bring attention to—and help create—a shared pathway for accelerated solutions, providing economic support for the people and projects that need it most.

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