Download - Operationalizing Landscape Approaches
“Down to Earth” Side EventThe Hague, Netherlands, 5 November
2010
Sara J. Scherr, PresidentEcoAgriculture Partners
Operationalizing Landscape Approaches
Agenda
Video on Ecoagriculture landscapes Panel
o Sara J. Scherr, EcoAgriculture – Introductiono Tamara Benjamin, CATIE – Latin Americao Constance Neely, ICRAF – Rangelandso George Wamukoya, COMESA – Africao Peter Veen, Dutch Society for Nature
Conservation – Europe Discussion
Ecoagriculture landscapes
Agricultural landscapes managed to enhance rural livelihoods and sustainable agricultural production (of crops, livestock, fish and forest), while conserving or restoring ecosystem services and biodiversity.
Diverse landscape strategies
Kabale, Uganda Willamette Valley, USA
Eastern Region, Burkina Faso Tea Zone, Kenya
Align diverse objectives through multi-stakeholder planning & action
AgrobiodiversityDiverse crop varieties & breeds, improved germplasm, HYV’s
Increase agricultural productivity, resilience and sustainability in farm fields
Integrated pest management Uses biodiversity for pest control, lowering synthetic input costs
Integrated water management More efficient water use plus irrigation
Integrated soil conservation Improved organic content and natural nutrient cycling lower synthetic input costs, improve soil health, water-holding and infiltration
AgroforestryTree-growing for food, fuel, feed, medicine, building, soil nutrients, soil protection, windbreaks, and income
In conservation areas • Natural areas that
benefit local farming communities
• Provide watershed protection, habitat connectivity thru non-farmed areas
• Reduce or reverse land conversion by increasing farm productivity
• Develop species conservation plans
In production areas • Minimize agricultural
pollution (incl. GHG)• Manage water flow, use &
infiltration--plot,farm,landscape
• Increase carbon storage in soils and vegetation
• Modify farming systems to mimic natural ecosystems
• Maintain diversity of crop species & varieties
Maintain ecosystem services & biodiversity in agricultural landscape mosaics
Productivity-enhancing innovationswith positive impacts on ecosystems
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Conservation innovations with positive impacts for farmers
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Potential benefits for farmers of engaging in ecoagriculture landscape initiatives1) Increase profits (reduce production
costs, increase yields, improve quality)
2) Conserve ecosystem services important for their livelihoods
3) Link with buyers who want products that protect biodiversity
4) Sell ecosystem services
5) Comply with environmental regulations
6) Protect rights to crop, graze, collect products from protected areas
7) Enhance local quality of life
8) Reduce conflicts with other groups
9) Protect cultural, spiritual values
Positive impacts of integrated landscape initiatives have been documented Smallholder production & community
livelihoods Enhanced ecosystem services &
biodiversity
1) Banikoara District, Benin - livestock corridor
2) Kericho, Kenya – certified tea
3) Luangwa Valley, Zambia - wildlife-friendly farming
4) Loess Plateau, China – degraded land restoration
5) Rajasthan, India – landscape water harvesting
6) Cebu, Philippines – watershed restoration
7) Kalinga, Philippines – forest biodiversity & agro- biodiversity conservation with intensification
8) Talamanca, Costa Rica – farmer-led biodiversity conservation and eco-label marketing
9) Matiguas, Nicaragua – payment to farmers for ecosystem services on farmland
Process of multi-stakeholder ecoagriculture landscape management
Participatory process of rural landscape
management
Stakeholders negotiate landscape
goals
Understand the
landscape from diverse perspectives
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Implement farm &
landscape plans
Design and plan farm & landscape actions, finance,
responsibilities
Track & review
results and modify
strategy/action
Collaborative landscape planning: spatialstrategy for land use & management
Landscape assessment and future scenarios
Upper watershed protection
policies:• PES for hillside
revegetation and on-farm agroforestry
• 30-meter riparian zone protection
Intensive agriculture zone policies:
• Farmer education on IPM• 15-meter riparian zone
protection• Community stream
monitoring
Collaborative landscape planning: programs, policies and investments
Sectors align, coordinate or
integrate
1) Landscape literacy (spatial, functional)
2) Multi-stakeholder deliberation and negotiation (across sectors)
3) Farm & landscape ‘design’ (who does what, where, how?)
4) Collaborative implementation5) Landscape tracking and
assessment (production, ecosystems, livelihoods, institutions)
Core capacities & tools needed to implement ecoagriculture landscape strategies
The Landscape Measures Resource Center: Tools for assessing landscape performance
www.landscapemeasures.org
Contents Process Practice Case Studies Glossary
A web-based hub for a virtual learning network
Testing in “learning landscapes”
• Venue and date:• Nairobi, Kenya - January 2012
• Objectives:• Share and take stock of
experience
• Showcase tools, methods, practices
• Define international action agenda to scale ecoagriculture (Rio + 20, et al)
• Participants:• Landscape leaders &
innovators
Landscapes for People, Food and Nature: Ecoagriculture Conference & Knowledge Exchange
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