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Documents designed to help practitioners and community organizations improve their capacity to implement the landscape approach.

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The Landscape Assessment of Financial Flows

  • Seth Shames
  • Bastiaan Louman
  • Sara Scherr

This practical two-phase approach helps stakeholders identify sources of finance for new investment ideas, find the current financial flows that are most in need of transformation, and/or better understand the elements of a landscape’s financial...

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Assessing Landscape Governance: A participatory approach

  • Maartje de Graaf
  • Louise Buck
  • Seth Shames
  • Roderick Zagt

This manual introduces a method of assessing landscape governance in a participatory way. It involves four criteria: 1) inclusive decision-making in the landscape; 2) culture of collaboration in the landscape; 3) coordination across landscape...

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Integrated Landscape Management in Africa: Learning from Each Other

  • Mariteuw Chimère Diaw

What are the methods and means that can actually turn a landscape into an integrative social reality that effectively empowers and bring stakeholders closer together; identifies the means to mediate trade-offs, to innovate, and to sustain the...

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Public Policy Guidelines for Integrated Landscape Management

  • Seth Shames
  • Krista Heiner
  • Sara Scherr

National and sub-national policies that create the enabling conditions for integrated landscape management still need to be put in place in most areas of the world. Thankfully, policymakers have a large set of tools at their disposal, many of which...

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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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A Landscape Perspective on Monitoring & Evaluation for Sustainable Land Management

  • Louise Buck
  • Raffaela Kozar
  • John Recha
  • Ayal Desalegn

This manual will aid trainers of sustainable land management (SLM) professionals to organize and conduct effective courses on monitoring and evaluation (M&E) from an integrated landscape management perspective.

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Ground-Based Photo-Monitoring of Landscape Changes Arising from Sustainable Land Management Practices

  • James Lassoie
  • Louise Buck
  • Lindsay Myron, Consultant

Aimed at sustainable land management researchers and practitioners, the method presented here uses photographs to track land-use changes in order to evaluate the progress and effectiveness of specific management practices. The user guide includes an...

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Spatial Planning and Monitoring of Landscape Interventions: Maps to Link People with their Landscapes

  • Louise Willemen
  • Raffaela Kozar
  • Ayal Desalegn
  • Louise Buck

This guide is designed to stimulate and provide a clear process for the use of maps in cross-sectoral collaborations to locate, design and monitor interventions in rural landscapes.

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Tropical Fruit Tree Species and Climate Change

  • Bhuown Sthapit

Ripe for the picking, opportunities for sustainable fruit production At the nexus of climate change and growing demand for fruits, there are both opportunities to seek and challenges to deal with. Current producers who rely on fruits want to know...

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