Thaísa is an architect, urban designer and urban planner, with specialization in solar and wind energy. Ivo Demmers - Head of Programme Food Security and Valuing Water Program.Cora van Oosten – Landscape Governance & Natural Resources Management Expert.Liesje Mommer – Leading the Wageningen Biodiversity Initiative.Tim van Hattum - Program Leader Green Climate Solutions.Panel of experts of Wageningen University & Research In line with four guiding principles to enable NbS to provide sustainable benefits to society.Feasibility of your NbS project (e.g., timeline, planning, problem definition).The jury will judge the proposed projects based on: You cannot register anymore for this challenge. With their Food Forest concept, they aim to improve smallholders resilience thourgh better environmental management and high economic returns. The teams hopes to turn the Plateau des Bateke into an economically productive forest. Team MabelAgric (DR Congo) works on agroforestry on the Plateau des Bateke. The group is provided with modern bee hives for initial installation in the Mt. The team does so by training farmers about apiary management in combination with creation a farmer apiary group.

Team Bees of Hope (Uganda) aims to raise awareness about the need to coexist with nature. The secondary aim is to show the local authorities and community members the advantages of nature based solutions for lake restoration over conventional interventions such as dredging with heavy machinery. The teams’ main objective is to reduce the effects of pollutants, sedimentation, and nutrients runoff on the lake originating from the activities at the stone spout and agricultural land-use in the catchment. With a focus on biodiversity and water quality, they are currently working on a sediment and nutrient retention pond. Nagdaha is facing problems that come with rapid urbanisation including catchment land-use change, pollution, sediment run-off, and lake resources overexploitation. Team Wetlands for Nepal works on wetland restoration in Nepal, more specifically on lake Nagdaha in the sub-urban area of Lalitpur district. Team Regenerae (Brazil) aims to foster the connections among different actors, in a socio-technical and socio-ecological network, through workshops and the implementation of reference agroforestry modules in different locations in the city of São Francisco de Paula. The Green Holistic System is meant to support biodiversity, circular and sustainable use of water, and low-impact food provision. The Green Dream Team (The Netherlands) works on a green holistic system which integrates the benefits of blue-green-roofs and vertical farming. This approach will make the team contributing both in the short and long run. Furthermore, the team creates awareness within the schools about Nature-Based solutions specific to coastal areas. Team School Meets The Reefs (Sri Lanka) works on the rehabilitation of coral reefs in the Kayaker Coral cove by building in situ coral nurseries. By promoting mushroom cultivation, the team aims to subsitute the consumption of wild game meat with mushrooms, while also benefiting the local economy and protecting the forest. They work on mushroom cultivation mushrooms can namely grow productively under the protection of the tree canopy. (Indonesia) aims to contribute to a world in which people live side by side with nature. Even more, in a world where monoculture dominates the landscape, this biodiversity hub will aid in diversifying nature once again. Some advantages of regreening wind turbines are that they will become more attractive in the scenery and more locations will have the potential to house wind turbines. This project offers the chance to test out the proposed concept of making an existing wind turbine physically greener by adding substrate. The Green Armour team (The Netherlands) aims towards a more successful ecological integration of wind turbines within the anthropogenic and natural landscape. Coral reef rehabilitation project in Sri Lanka wins the Nature Based Solutions Challenge Eight teams from Brazil, Congo, Indonesia, Nepal, Sri Lanka the Netherlands and Uganda made it to the finals of the Nature Based Solutions Challenge.

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