This workshop report includes summaries of each session that took place during the two-day event, plus information gathered from participants in a follow-up workshop evaluation.
This meeting was designed as a capstone to a larger initiative funded by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD) and focused on strengthening the capacity of civil society to scale up and improve the effectiveness of integrated landscape management initiatives that seek to jointly achieve sustainable agriculture, healthy ecosystems and biodiversity, adaptation to climate change, and mitigation of climate change, while enhancing the well-being and self-realization of low-income households and communities in rural Africa.
The workshop report includes summaries of each session during the two-day event, plus information gathered from participants in a follow-up workshop evaluation.
We surveyed leaders and managers of ILIs in 33 African countries to provide the first region-wide portrait of contexts, motivations, design, participation and outcomes of such initiatives. Results suggest that ILIs are promoting “multi-functionality” of rural regions, while aiding stakeholders in negotiating trade-offs and synergies among multiple outcomes.
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This case study characterizes the Kikuyu Escarpment landscape and describes the ways in which an integrated landscape management approach has enabled local communities to define and pursue their goals related to agricultural development and profitability while conserving the area’s critical natural capital.
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