Innovation Marketplace Award Recipient

Fundacion Natura Bolivia and the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) for Water for Life. This partnership pioneers the use of payments for environmental services to conserve threatened rainforests and protect watersheds in the Santa Cruz area of Bolivia. In a unique arrangement, upstream landowners receive an artificial beehive and training in honey production for every 10 hectares of cloud rainforest conserved for a year. Downstream users, who have suffered severe economic losses from reduced waterflows, contribute to the payment scheme to improve water management.

On stage left to right: Franklin Moore (USAID), Michael Hailu (CIFOR), Maria Teresa Vargas from Fundacion Natura Bolivia, and Kathy Sierra, CGIAR Chair.