Blog for People, Food and Nature

From March sixth to ninth, 2017, 140 ILM practitioners, farmers, researchers, policymakers, and finance, business, and community leaders – 113 from 16 African countries and 27 from the United States and Europe – convened in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia at the African Landscapes Dialogue to promote new ideas, expand networks, confront challenges, and share lessons and experiences a ...

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? ...

This report draws widely from the diverse experience of landscape partnerships to analyze the challenges and opportunities for businesses and their partners, and lays out critical actions needed by businesses themselves, and by financial institutions, governments and landscape programs, to improve the effectiveness of landscape partnerships and replicate the approach in many mo ...

Integrated landscape approaches offer a means of integrating policy and practice to ensure equitable and sustainable use of land while strengthening measures to improve environmental conservation, production, and well-being outcomes. While traditionally practiced and increasingly adopted in many parts of Asia, there is no systematic assessment to date of the characteristics, ou ...

In this article we propose a participatory method to aid planning, monitoring, and evaluation of multi-stakeholder platforms, and we report on experiences from piloting the method in Ghana and Indonesia. ...

National and sub-national policies that create the enabling conditions for integrated landscape management still need to be put in place in most areas of the world. Thankfully, policymakers have a large set of tools at their disposal, many of which are very low or no-cost. Further, there are simple steps that can be taken right away by individual agencies or localities to put I ...

This new study addresses a major challenge for integrated landscape management and its advocates: landscape approaches are by nature and necessity long-term engagements, with multiple and shifting goals, while monitoring and measurement tools and timelines are typically short-term. ...

For those policymakers, agencies, and organizations struggling with biodiversity mainstreaming, climate action, rural poverty, food insecurity, zero deforestation commitments, or any other goal that relies on sustainable management of natural resources, conventional policy approaches that assume land can have one priority and 'trade-off' others are no longer viable. ...

Landscapes are linked to human well-being in a multitude of ways, some of which are challenged by global market forces and traditional management approaches. In response to this situation there has been a rise in local initiatives to sustain the values of landscape. The aim of this paper is to provide a systematic analysis of the spectrum of these initiatives in Europe in terms ...

This paper reviews the literature on integrated landscape approaches to attempt a synthesis of the barriers to adoption and a refined definition of the term. ...