Session overview

Below you can find the overview of all accepted conference sessions. Please click the titles below to read the session descriptions.

The sessions are clustered according to the ESP Working Groups structure: Biome (B), Sectoral (S) and Thematic (T) Working Groups. Also, General sessions will be organised.
By clicking on the clusters, you will be directed to that cluster. Each cluster consists of several sessions.

Links to the ESP Working Groups are included to show the linkages between the conference sessions and the ESP community in general.

B. Biome Sessions

G. General Sessions

S. Sectoral Sessions

T. Thematic Sessions

Biome Sessions

B3 - Ecosystem services from African tropical forests, A. Cuni-Sanchez, et al.

General Sessions

G1 - Open Topic session: This is an open session for abstracts that do not fit in any of the other sessions

G2 - Gender, ecosystem services and human welfare, N. Tekwa & S. Nyikahadzoi

G3 - Landscape restoration and livelihoods enhancement through payment for ecosystem services- ongoing work in Sebeya catchment, under the embedding integrated water resources management in Rwanda project, A. Guzha (only open for invited speaker abstract submission).

G4 - Early-career researchers engaging with NGOs and the private sector
to enhance the delivery of ecosystem services in Africa, A. D. Diallo, et al.

G5 - Leveraging the ecosystem service concept to improve conservation outcomes in Africa: A joint initiative by ESP Africa and ICCB 2021, B. Kaplin, et al.

Sectoral Sessions

S1 - Enhancing ecosystems services in tree commodity agroecosystems in Africa, P. Wainaina, et al.

S6 - Integrated capitals thinking to promote a sustainable and healthy agriculture & food sector, M. Van Weelden & M. Lok

S7 - Nature Tourism in Africa: Value for Nature, Livelihoods and Economic Investment, J. P. Schägner, et al.

Thematic Sessions

T8 - Neglected and underutilized plant species and the ecosystem services in the tropics: the role of local knowledge, J. Idassi, et al.

T13a - An ecosystem services approach to community-based landscape restoration and sustainable livelihoods development, T. van der Sluis, et al.

T13b - Forest Landscape Restoration potentials to restore Ecosystem services,  E. Imanirareba, et al.

T17 - Accounting for ecosystem services: policy support for protected areas, B. Smets, et al.

T18 - Conserving ecosystem services for sustainable recovery and sustainable development: Locking in opportunities from the COVID-19 pandemic, F. Donkor, et al.