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31 Results for Potential Benefits of Integrated Landscape Management

Spatial modelling of participatory landscape scenarios

  • Sara Scherr
  • Seth Shames
  • Spatially explicit modeling tools can be helpful in participatory scenario development with stakeholders from multiple sectors. In a set of three case studies by PBL and EcoAgriculture Partners, this combined approach demonstrated the potential to...

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Business for Sustainable Landscapes

  • Sara Scherr
  • Seth Shames
  • Lee Gross
  • André Brasser
  • This report draws widely from the diverse experience of landscape partnerships to analyze the challenges and opportunities for businesses and their partners, and lays out critical actions needed by businesses themselves, and by financial...

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Integrated landscape initiatives in Europe

  • María García-Martín
  • Claudia Bieling
  • Tobias Plieninger
  • Landscapes are linked to human well-being in a multitude of ways, some of which are challenged by global market forces and traditional management approaches. In response to this situation there has been a rise in local initiatives to sustain the...

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Examining multi-functionality for crop yield and ecosystem services in five systems of agroecological intensification

  • Kelly Garbach
  • Jeffrey C. Milder
  • Fabrice A.J. DeClerck
  • Maywa Montenegro de Wit
  • Laura Driscoll
  • Barbara Gemmill-Herren
  • Agroecological intensification (AEI) integrates ecological principles and biodiversity management into farming systems with the aims of increasing farm productivity, reducing dependency on external inputs, and sustaining or enhancing ecosystem...

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The Landscape Approach For Sustainability in African Agribusiness

  • Lee Gross
  • Louis Wertz
  • The booklet was designed for leaders of African agriculture, food and beverage companies, and for the civil society and government land managers working to engage them. It offers cases of front-running companies who have applied the landscape...

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Multi-functional landscapes from the grassroots? The role of rural producer movements

  • Philip McMichael
  • Jeffrey C. Milder
  • Sara Scherr
  • This paper explores the role and recent evolution of producer movements in influencing multi-functional farm and landscape management, and suggests that producer movements are playing pivotal roles in supporting landscape multi-functionality, not...

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Infographic: The Current State of Integrated Landscape Initiatives in Latin America and the Caribbean

  • Elise Ursin
  • Eva Fillion
  • For this study, we define ILIs as projects, programs, platforms, initiatives or sets of activities that: (1) seek to simultaneously improve food production, biodiversity, ecosystems and rural livelihoods; (2) work at a landscape scale; (3) involve...

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