August 30, 2013
Disruptive Conservation: A Path to Landscape Resiliency
By Tim Gieseke, Founder and President, Ag Resource Strategies, LLC, USA As the Ecosystem Services Partnership conference draws to a close and we gear up for World Water Week beginning on Monday, our guest author today is bridging the topics of resilience and water resources management. Tim Gieseke brings us a “Landscape of the Week” […] ...
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August 16, 2013
Regreening Climate Change Resilience: The Case of Burkina Faso
“If you want to know how to grow crops in the face of climate change, drought, and land degradation, ask Ousséni Kindo, Ousséni Zoromé, or Yacouba Sawadogo—three farmers in Burkina Faso’s Yatenga region.” These words began an article yesterday by Landscapes for People, Food and Nature Initiative Co-organizer World Resources Institute. Referring to participant ...
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June 3, 2013
Ecosystem-Based Approaches to Relieving Hunger and Restoring Nature
Elizabeth Migongo-Bake
UN Environment
Keith Alverson
Richard Munang
With global population approaching 9 billion by 2050, huge demand will be placed on governments and the environment to provide sufficient food. Already, the world is searching for solutions to a series of global challenges unprecedented in their scale and complexity. Food insecurity, malnutrition, climate change, rural poverty and environmental degradation are all among them. [ ...
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May 31, 2013
Maps for Innovation: Greening Agricultural Development in Mbeya
Raffaela Kozar
EcoAgriculture Partners
Louise Willemen
In the southwest of Tanzania, the Mbeya region encompasses several important areas for biodiversity. The land has a variety of productive uses, including livestock production in the drylands, irrigated rice near the rivers, small-scale maize in the hills, and fruit and plantation trees in the more humid, higher elevations, while large protected forested areas supply […] ...
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May 22, 2013
Preventing Cardiac Arrest for Cambodia’s Heart
by Fabrice DeClerck (Bioversity International), Mam Kosal, and Gareth Johnstone (World Fish Centre), with contributions from Andrew Noble, Debbie Bossio, Michael Victor, and Camilla Zanzanaini Water is essential to life on this planet, and more specifically to agriculture and healthy ecosystems. This year has been designated as the UN International Year of Water Cooperation, wh ...
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May 17, 2013
Watershed Wars: Avoiding Water Rights Conflict between Smallholders and Agri-Industries
By Delia C. Catacutan, Senior Social Scientist, World Agroforestry Centre, Hanoi, Vietnam Dr. Catacutan currently leads research related to governance and natural resources management processes, including policy and institutional analyses in relation to payments for ecosystem services, in the Southeast Asia office of the World Agroforestry Centre. Her insights on avoiding confl ...
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May 15, 2013
Becoming Conflict-Smart
By Elisabeth Kvitashvili, Deputy Assistant Administrator-designate for Middle East Bureau and former Director of the Office of Conflict Management and Mitigation, US Agency for International Development (USAID). Ms. Kvitashvili has led USAID’s work to analyze and respond to instability, extremism, and insurgency, and has worked on humanitarian and conflict-related programs in ...
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May 13, 2013
Landscape Approaches in Managing Conflict
By Saswati Bora, Operations Officer, Agriculture & Environmental Services, the World Bank Ms. Bora, the lead author of the background paper “Food Security and Conflict” to the 2011 World Development Report: Conflict, Security and Development, kicks off our first Landscapes Roundtable on the role of integrated landscape management in mitigating or avoiding conflict. With ...
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May 8, 2013
Hybridizing Technology: The Case of Rice Farming in Nepal
By Rajendra Uprety, Irrigation Specialist, Asia Youth Exchange Programme One of the important, underlying principles of an integrated landscape approach is using participatory processes. Through his experience working with the Nepalese District Agriculture Development Office (DADO), today’s guest author Rajendra Uprety discovered the value of local input and joint learning to ...
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March 22, 2013
Payment for Watershed Services: A Win-Win Strategy for Climate Change and Development?
Happy World Water Day! Celebrating the 20th anniversary, the day is observed annually to focus attention on sustainable management of freshwater resources. Agriculture is also a critical piece of the puzzle, both relying heavily on rainfall or irrigation for production and impacting the quality and quantity of surface and below-ground water supplies. This year’s theme [&helli ...
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