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Managing rural landscapes to sustain ecosystem services, nature and people
Dr Christine Negra, EcoAgriculture Partners
Ecosystem Services Partnership 2014San Jose, Costa RicaSeptember 10, 2014
Overview
●Describe a global initiative
●Share insights from recent projects on integrated landscape management (ILM)
●Offer a set of research priorities
Objective: Promote integrated landscape management (ILM), for:
●Climate-resilient, diversified agriculture
●Secure access to food, fuel, fiber
●Ecosystem services and biodiversity
●Rural livelihoods and culture
LPFN ‘Value-Added’
●Document experiences across communities of practice●Synthesize diverse knowledge sets●Foster dialogue and action among diverse groups
Organization of LPFN Initiative●9 Co-organizers ●Many strategic
partners●6 working groups●Secretariat
(EcoAgriculture)
Co-Organizers
Strategic Partners
Working Groups
Secretariat
The LPFN Working Groups
ImprovingPolicy
Engaging Business
Mobilizing scientists
Outreach
Aligning Finance
Strengthening Landscapes
Some LPFN strategic partners
Integrated Landscapes: Key Features 1) Shared management objectives: multiple landscape
benefits 2) Community engaged in planning, negotiating and
monitoring decisions 3) Management practices deliver co-benefits at farm and
landscape scales4) Interactions among landscape components promote
synergies or mitigate trade-offs5) Markets and policies encourage multi-benefit landscapes
Testing a concept
Improved multi-stakeholder processes improved practices and policies increased multi-functionality in landscapes
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●Document activities and impacts of large, multi-stakeholder landscape initiatives
●Training and knowledge-sharing for landscape leaders
WG1: Strengthening Landscape Initiatives
WG2: Policy Support for Integrated Landscapes●Link high-level policy initiatives and landscape
actors
Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development
(GCARD 2)
IUCN World Conservation Congress
Nairobi International
Forum
Rio+20
Global Landscapes Forum / UNFCCC
Global Conference on Agriculture, Food
Security, and Climate Change
Committee for World Food Security
Climate-Smart Agricultural Global Science Conference
Sustainable Development Goals
●Understand when and why agribusinesses think – and act – at landscape scale
●Global scoping: 27 examples●3 in-depth case studies
WG3: Incorporating Landscape Approaches into Business Models
●Risks / rationales: Volatile market prices, farmer incomesDeclining production (climate, aging farmers)
Env’l risks (deforestation, GHGs, water)
●Modes of engagementSupply chain intervention (C.A.F.E. practices)
Regional producer support interventions (farmer loans)
Payments for Ecosystem Services (carbon payments)
Starbucks and Conservation Int’l: landscape approach to coffee in Mexico, Indonesia and Brazil
Reducing risk through landscape approaches
Source: Kissinger, G., A. Brasser, and L. Gross, 2013. Reducing Risk: Landscape Approaches to Sustainable Sourcing. Washington, DC. EcoAgriculture Partners, on behalf of the Landscapes for People, Food and Nature Initiative.
●Types of mechanisms and institutions?
●Barriers / opportunities for financing ILM?
●Global scoping: 29 cases
●3 in-depth case studies Atlantic Forest, Brazil Namaqualand, South
Africa Lake Naivasha, Kenya
WG4: Mobilizing finance / investment for ILM
Scoping ILM Finance
ILM Case Studies and Examples- Global Environment Facility - World Bank BioCarbon Fund- NICFI / NORAD- EcoEnterprises Fund- Moringa- Althelia - Bunge Environmental Markets- Agricultural Lending & Investment
- SAB Miller- Global Mechanism UNCCD- Verified Carbon Standard’s Jurisdictional and Nested REDD+ (JNR)- ForestRE- CGIAR Landscape Fund- Grasslands, LLC
WG5: Science and Knowledge to Support ILM●Strengthen
landscape science ●Mobilize scientific
support for landscape initiatives
●Mainstream landscape approach in research and knowledge networks
Integrated Landscape Initiatives in LAC Geographic distribution of surveyed ILIs
Surveyed 104 landscape
initiatives in 21 countries
Key findings●ILIs are truly multi-objective, multi-
stakeholder initiatives: > 9 objectives, 11 stakeholder groups, 4 sectors
on average
●ILIs with more objectives, years of experience, and participating stakeholder groups reported a greater number of outcomes
●Some policies and laws support, other hinder ILM
●Limited funding and intermittent / low stakeholder participation over the long term, particularly private sector and government
WG6: Key Stakeholders Aware of ILM Benefits
●Pool resources for advocacy and outreachLandscapes blog Op-edsMediaVideosEvents
Evidence base for ILMIntegrated, multi-disciplinary scientific research is essential to make agricultural landscapes more productive, sustainable, climate-resilient, and socially inclusive
Global Review Knowledge ProductsTrees and landscape restorationAgroecological intensification Climate-smart landscape
planningLinking climate change
mitigation & adaptation Benefits of agrobiodiversityImpact of eco-certification Water management in
landscapesLandscape governanceProducer movementsCity regions as landscapes
Research gaps
●Quantified benefits of ILM in different places / management contextse.g. yield, food security, well-being,
ecosystem services, biodiversity
●Linked farm- and landscape-scale data to compare ILM with BAUe.g. diversification, restoration
●Spatially-explicit understanding of how landscape elements interact and contribute to multi-functionality
●Agreed multi-scale landscape metrics to monitor outcomes
…and a few more research gaps
●Advance methods for combined study of human and ecosystem services dimensions• e.g. governance of
multifunctional landscapes
●Study interactions across highland-lowland and rural-urban gradients and transboundary resources
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Roles for research networks (e.g. ESP)Transformative science●Broker collaboration among field and lab researchers
across a broad set of scientific disciplines to address complex challenges
●Showcase participatory action research that taps into the innovative capacity of farmers and communities
Broad support ●Build a business case for co-investment (by global
donors, businesses) in knowledge systems • e.g. seasonal forecasting, landscape ‘observatories’
●Work with ‘boundary organizations’ to communicate research recommendations to government, private sector, etc
ESP and LPFN
●LPFN WG5 = ESP working group on Rural & Cultivated Landscapes
●Session #48: ●Concepts from upcoming
paper on landscape science for sustainable rural development
●Plans for 2015 and beyond…
www.landscapes.ecoagriculture.orgblog.ecoagriculture.org
Thank you!