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19 Results for Research, Development and Training Gaps

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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Strengthening Capacities for Collaborative Landscape Management in Africa

  • Cora van Oosten
  • Louise Buck
  • Mariteuw Chimère Diaw
  • Working from a landscape perspective requires a broad spectrum of capacities. A recent study of integrated landscape initiatives (ILIs) in Africa exposes challenges, however, in realizing the capacities required (Milder et al., 2014). This paper...

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Priorities for Research in African Landscapes

  • Christine Negra
  • Wanja Kinuthia
  • Phosiso Sola
  • Celia A. Harvey
  • Carmen Jaquez
  • Gete Zeleke
  • Synthesized research is needed to develop and manage successful integrated landscapes initiatives in Africa. This brief brings together relevant knowledge and provides recommendations for actions for the develepment of knowledge sharing platforms.

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Climate-Smart Landscapes: Opportunities and challenges for integrating adaptation and mitigation in tropical agriculture

  • Celia A. Harvey
  • Seth Shames
  • Mario Chacon
  • Camila I. Donatti
  • Eva Garen
  • Eva Wollenberg
  • Lee Hannah
  • Angela Andrade
  • Lucio Bede
  • Alicia Calle
  • Julian Chara
  • Christopher Clement
  • Elizabeth Gray
  • Minh Ha Hoang
  • Peter Minang
  • Ana Marıa Rodrıguez
  • Christina Seeberg-Elverfeldt
  • Sean Smukler
  • Emmanuel Torquebiau
  • Jacob van Etten
  • Eduardo Somarriba
  • Tropical agricultural systems can provide both mitigation and adaptation benefits if they are designed and managed appropriately.

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Solutions from the Land: Developing a New Vision for United States Agriculture, Forestry, and Conservation

  • Melinda Kimble
  • Neil Sampson
  • This report outlines ongoing land management challenges and proposes a vision for producing more agricultural and forestry products and ecosystem services with fewer inputs and environmental impacts. It also offers recommendations for realizing this...

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Food and Agriculture: The future of sustainability

  • Daniele Giovannucci
  • Sara Scherr
  • Jeffrey C. Milder
  • Danielle Nierenberg
  • Charlotte Hebebrand
  • Julie Shapiro
  • Keith Wheeler
  • On our current trajectory, severe disruptions to national and regional food systems are highly likely to happen - the main question is when. This report, commissioned by the UN DESA as a strategic input to SD21 and the Rio discussions, focuses on...

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Tropical Fruit Tree Species and Climate Change

    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...

  • Bhuown Sthapit
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Realizing the Satoyama Vision in Project Landscapes

  • This workshop marks the inception of the UNDP project COMDEKS– Community Development and Knowledge Management for the Satoyama Initiative. Stemming from a unique partnership between the Ministry of the Environment of Japan (MOEJ), the Secretariat...

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