Blog for People, Food and Nature

In July 2014, nearly 200 highly regarded experts, practitioners and policy makers from across Africa and around the world came together over three days to synthesize lessons learned from research and experience in integrated landscape management to jointly achieve food security, biodiversity and climate objectives. The gathering was called the Landscapes for People, Food and Na ...

This paper describes how interest in landscape labeling began among Mbeya stakeholders, as well as the steps that have been taken to bring landscape labeling closer to a reality. ...

Landscape labeling is a strategy that practitioners of integrated landscape management can use to market their products. EcoAgriculture Partners designed and tested a landscape labeling approach to marketing in collaboration with local partners in two locations, Lari, Kenya and Mbeya, Tanzania. ...

A study of 104 initiatives in 21 countries paints a picture of integrated landscape management in Latin America and the Caribbean. Researchers surveyed participants and managers in integrated landscape initiatives throughout the LAC region to characterize these initiatives’ contexts, motivations and objectives, stakeholders and participants, activities and investments, outcom ...

This collection of innovations, lessons, and emerging good practices from the growing community of landscape leaders and practitioners provides the practical elements needed to co-design effective landscape governance systems. ...

Creating resilient, sustainable city region food systems with durable and equitable urban rural linkages will require support at all levels of government. ...

A case study of finance for landscape-scale restoration in the Atlantic Forest, a Brazilian biodiversity hotspot. ...

Integrated Landscape Initiatives (ILIs) have unique financing needs. ILIs are struggling to meet these needs with existing finance mechanisms. But a range of key investors can coordinate their activities to better serve ILIs and buffer their investment risk. ...

The Succulent Karoo Biome, which begins in southern Namibia and extends to the Cape Province of South Africa, is the world’s only recognized arid biodiversity hotspot. ...

A case study of the Lake Naivasha catchment, an area that has recently experienced extreme population and industrial growth. ...