Integrated Landscape Management in Africa: Learning from Each Other

“Integrated landscape management (ILM) approaches are on the rise, and this is good news for Africa. Africa needs to make its economic and social transformation in ways that will be greener and significantly more inclusive and collaborative than previous models of industrialization or emergence; ILM approaches offer models of cross-sector, ecological and economic integration that are key to more sustainable transformation.”

This policy note by Mariteuw Chimère Diaw, General Manager of the African Model Forest Network (AMFN), focuses on these key questions: What are the methods and means that can actually turn a landscape into an integrative social reality that effectively empowers and bring stakeholders closer together; identifies the means to mediate trade-offs, to innovate, and to sustain the process beyond any single project of program?