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

A Users' Guide

Authors

Louise Willemen, EcoAgriculture Partners
Raffaela Kozar, EcoAgriculture Partners
Ayal Desalegn
Louise Buck, EcoAgriculture Partners , Cornell University

Date

November 11, 2014

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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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How to Use Maps to Collaborate

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

8 Step Process

The guide presents eight steps to guide key stakeholders through a spatially explicit landscape planning process aimed at integrating goals for agricultural production, biodiversity conservation and livelihood security. The steps form a repeating process of co-learning that reinforces shared goals and understanding. Along the way, information from each step informs other steps in the next round of the process.

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