October 10, 2016
Out of bed and seeing progress on the SDGs
Martin Harper
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
I emerged from my sick-bed last week to attend an event at the Zoological Society of London – Natural Partners: integrating development and environment to deliver sustainable development. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) had joined forces with the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Christian Aid and […] ...
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August 23, 2016
Leading global sustainable agriculture organization Solidaridad becomes co-organizer of LPFN
The Landscapes for People, Food and Nature Initiative is pleased to announce that Solidaridad has stepped up its engagement in promoting and strengthening integrated agricultural landscape management by becoming a co-organizer of the Landscapes for People, Food and Nature Initiative (LPFN). Solidaridad has begun a learning journey with the launch of seven new landscape program ...
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June 21, 2016
Landscape partnerships: a path forward for sustainable agribusiness
MEDIA RELEASE – 21 June 2016 – The future of sustainable agriculture goes beyond the fence, farm, or even supply chain. On May 31-June 2 at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center in Italy, EcoAgriculture Partners, IUCN, SAI Platform and the Sustainable Food Lab, hosted a diverse group of leaders from business, government, and civil society […] ...
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June 17, 2016
Jurisdictional sustainability: connecting supply chains to landscapes
Catherine Rothacker
EcoAgriculture Partners
Jurisdictional approaches are emerging as a promising model of landscape partnership. Landscape partnerships take many forms: regional watershed stewardship, private sector initiatives to generate shared value, indigenous traditional systems, etc. Jurisdictional sustainability approaches are distinct in that they specifically operate across an entire political geography such ...
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April 21, 2016
Harnessing the power of crop wild relatives for pulse improvement
Nik Tyack
CWR Diversity
Pulses, annual leguminous crops that include lentils, beans, peas and chickpeas, have nutritious value as a low-fat source of protein and fiber. They help to increase soil fertility by virtue of their nitrogen-fixing properties, and generally have a lower water footprint compared to most other protein sources. As valuable as current pulse varieties are, however, […] ...
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April 15, 2016
On Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships at the UN ECOSOC Partnership Forum
Melissa Thaxton
EcoAgriculture Partners
The Landscapes for People, Food and Nature Initiative raises its voice at the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Partnership Forum, 31 March 2016. Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on the EcoAgriculture Blog. It is reposted here with permission. Last week I attended the UN ECOSOC Partnership Forum — organized around the theme […] ...
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April 9, 2016
The Landscapes Blog, by the numbers
The Editors
EcoAgriculture Partners
The momentum for the landscape approach is building, and the Landscapes Blog is keeping up. A recent analysis of the Landscapes Blog’s progress in 2015 shows that the Landscapes Blog is a useful tool for getting landscape stories in front of important readers all over the world. Posts were viewed more than 45,000 times. Our tops individual […] ...
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April 5, 2016
Be a part of the conversation, on the Landscapes Blog
The Editors
EcoAgriculture Partners
Around the world, there are at least 500 landscape initiatives where leaders like you are practicing the landscape approach. Establishing these initiatives can be challenging. As a community, we need to support each other in advancing landscape approaches to tackle interconnected issues like climate change, agricultural efficiency, the strengthening of livelihoods, and natur ...
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March 29, 2016
Learning from the forests, a Latin American exchange of landscape knowledge
Josique Lorenzo
CATIE
Lucila Fernandez
Across Latin America, Model Forests are providing a natural laboratory for learning and experimentation about landscape governance. (Lea este aporte en español aquí) This post provides some insights on a recent Model Forest event, reporting on experiences of its application across Latin America and the Caribbean and how Model Forests, as a landscape approach, advance sustain ...
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March 29, 2016
Aprendiendo de los bosques, un intercambio latinoamericano de conocimiento en el manejo de paisajes
Josique Lorenzo
CATIE
Lucila Fernandez
A través de Latinoamérica, los bosques están proveyendo un laboratorio natural con que experimentar y crear conocimiento sobre iniciativas dirigidas por la comunidad que visualizan el desarrollo ecológico y socialmente justo. (Read this in English here) Lo siguiente relata las últimas experiencias y noticias de la Red Ibero-Americana de Bosques Modelos que tuvo lugar en [& ...
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