August 1, 2014
Close to Home: Exploring Three of Virginia’s Working Landscapes
Jes Walton
EcoAgriculture Partners
This blog often focuses on the geographies and management techniques of faraway (from our headquarters in Washington, DC) lands like the Eastern High Atlas of Morocco or Northern Tanzania’s culturally and ecologically unique Maasai Steppe Heartlands. But, this week, EcoAgriculture Partners’ staff ventured out into the field to explore several landscapes closer to our home†...
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June 13, 2014
Rewards and Challenges of Conservation in Kenya: A Conversation with KENVO
Krista Heiner
EcoAgriculture Partners
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June 9, 2014
Participatory Policy Making for Integrated Landscape Management in Kenya
Krista Heiner
EcoAgriculture Partners
Sensing the participants were getting a little restless after several hours of discussing policy challenges for the integrated management of water resources in the Lake Naivasha Landscape, Joan Kimayu, a lead facilitator with the Strengthening Rural Institutions Program at the World Agroforestry Centre, wondered what she could do to make a group of government officials [&hellip ...
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June 4, 2014
Beyond Pipes and Pumps: Learning about Landscapes
Miuru Jayaweera
Heenbanda was overwhelmed. Today was different from his usual toil in the paddy field. This morning he chose to travel to Peradeniya, Central Sri Lanka, approximately 75 kilometers away from his remote village to attend what the gentlemen called a ‘stakeholder dialogue’. ‘Big words’ he thought. Wide eyed and expectant nevertheless, Heenbanda took his seat […] ...
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April 14, 2014
Sago-based Agriculture and the Forest Dominated Rural Landscape
Sago palm groves are cultivated in swamps and alongside streams. When a mature sago palm is felled for starch extraction – which can provide sustenance for a family for several months – new suckers grow from the stump or root. Unlike crops grown in shifting cultivation, sago can be continually harvested at the same place, […] ...
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April 4, 2014
Ecoagriculture Partners with Protected Areas in Thailand
By Jeffrey A. McNeely Having retired from IUCN in Switzerland and moved back to Thailand (where I started my international conservation work as a Peace Corps Volunteer back in 1968), I found a challenging position: technical advisor to the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation on helping them prepare a National Protected Areas […] ...
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March 19, 2014
How Does Restoration Influence Reptiles, Beetles and Landholder Decisions?
By Sacha Jellinek, University of Melbourne’s Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions Agricultural landscapes in south-eastern Australia are largely cleared of native vegetation, with whatever remains surviving in small, isolated remnants surrounded by a sea of livestock grazing and/or industrial cropping. To explore the effectiveness of replanted areas for maintaini ...
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March 5, 2014
Pollinator Diversity Matters!
By Lucas A. Garibaldi, Universidad Nacional de RÃo Negro Wild pollination is an ecosystem service that provides innumerable benefits to our world’s agricultural systems including soil erosion mitigation and pest control for ensuring strong yields and food security worldwide. With the rise in vast single-crop systems and increasing agrochemical use, wild pollinators like bees ...
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February 28, 2014
The Pablo Standard: Encouraging Place-based Agroecology in El Salvador
By Abigail Hart, Project Manager, EcoAgriculture Partners (Translation by Jilka Paz, EcoAgriculture Partners) English Español Just northeast of San Salvador, the Cinquera municipality covers the hillside alongside El Salvador’s largest body of fresh water, the Cerrón Grande reservoir (known locally as Lake Suchitlán). This lake has been recognized as a RAMSAR site, which i ...
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January 14, 2014
B-ADAPT: Adapting to Climate Change with a Landscape Approach
By Gabriel Sarasin (Project Manager B-ADAPT, African Model Forest Network), Marie-Eve Landry (Program Development and Innovation Agent, Cuso International), Mariam Faye (Project Management Assistant, Cuso International) Community focused management of reforestation and restoration efforts concluded last week’s blog posts. Our guest post today once more draws attention to ...
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