2014 esp conference: managing rural landscapes to sustain ecosystem services, nature and people
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This slideshow was presented by Dr. Christine Negra at the 2014 ESP Conference in Costa Rica. It covers integrated landscape management projects around the world, providing an overview of the global initiative and setting research priorities for the future. For more information on the session, please see the Conference Program: http://www.espconference.org/ESP_Conference/82483/5/0/60TRANSCRIPT
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!