The IES project hosted the session: Incentives for agro-ecosystem services: the business perspective during the First Conference of the Regional Africa chapter of the Ecosystem Services Partnership (ESP) held in Nairobi, Kenya on 21-25 November 2016.

Ms Andrea Erickson, Managing Director for Water Security, who currently leads Global Water Funds and GLobal Market teams at The Nature Conservancy opened the session which presented the IES approach and welcomed the private sector to present local and global perspectives of their motivation to invest in agro-ecosystem services in the region. Mechanisms to enable responsble private sector investment, through public-private partnerships to co-finance incentives for farmers to overcome adoption barriers to sustainable agriculture were then presented.

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