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LOCATION: Mount Elgon Region, Kenya
CATEGORIES: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Food Security, Livelihoods, Livestock and Pasture, Water
The Mount Elgon region of northwestern Kenya is a critical watershed upstream of Lake Victoria that faces a variety of environmental and development challenges and opportunities.
LOCATION: Greater uMngeni River Catchment
CATEGORIES: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Landscape Restoration, Resilience, Water
The WWF-Mondi Wetlands Programme (WWF-MWP) operates throughout South Africa. Work in the Upper Umgeni, Upper Umvoti, and Groot Brak catchments began in 2014 as a part of the initiative’s Resilient Landscape Approach. In this diverse matrix of land uses, local community livelihood activities include forestry, sugarcane and potato production, dairy farming, pork and poultry production, […]
LOCATION: Mau Forest, Kenya
CATEGORIES: Biodiversity, Deforestation, Food Security, Livelihoods, Water
The Mau Forest is Africa’s water tower, feeding many major rivers and lakes, including the Nile and Lake Victoria. This montane forest in Kenya provides direct benefits to an estimated 6-10 million people from water storage and purification, flood and drought mitigation, reduced erosion and sedimentation, and biodiversity protection and climate regulation.
LOCATION: Chimanimani Mountains
CATEGORIES: Biodiversity, Deforestation, Food Security, Livelihoods, Water
The Chimanimani Transfrontier Conservation Area is a mountainous protected area spanning eastern Zimbabwe and western Mozambique. The region’s quartzite ridges, lowland tropical forests, afro-alpine grasslands, and evergreen forests are home to local communities as well as diverse wildlife, such as the eland, sable, klipspringer and leopard, and a variety of rare or endemic plants. Although […]
LOCATION: North Sumatra, Indonesia
CATEGORIES: Agroforestry, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Deforestation, Food Security, Livelihoods
North Sumatra is a diverse matrix of local communities, biodiversity-rich tropical forest, and agricultural cultivation. More than 80% of the people living in North Sumatra earn income from agriculture, including irrigated rice production, coffee, rubber, durian, sugar palm, and cinnamon agroforestry, oil palm and rubber plantations, and vegetable cultivation.
LOCATION: South Sulawesi, Indonesia
CATEGORIES: Biodiversity, Livelihoods
Landscape activities engage 13 communities in Bantaeng Regency, a lush slope at the southern tip of South Sulawesi. Bantaeng’s poorer upstream communities are more heavily wooded and abut the Gunung Lampobatang Protection Forest, the last remaining home of an endangered bird called the Lompobatang Flycatcher. These headwaters also support extensive downslope rice fields, cocoa agroforestry, […]
LOCATION: Western Brazil, bordering the Amazonian region to the south
CATEGORIES: Deforestation, Landscape Restoration, Livestock and Pasture
Mato Grosso is Brazil’s agricultural giant, producing more soybeans and cattle than any other state in the country. Agriculture is the largest component of Mato Grosso’s economy, representing more than 40% of the state’s GDP. This western state is home to 3 million inhabitants, 3 in 4 of which live in cities. It also has […]
LOCATION: KwaZulu-Natal Midlands
CATEGORIES: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Water
South Africa’s Midlands Region of KwaZulu-Natal is located outside of Pietermaritzburg up to the Drakensberg mountain range. Dotted with small towns, inhabitants of this relatively rural area engage in farming, particularly of sugar and wine grapes, livestock cultivation, forestry, and the tourism industry. The area’s natural forests and grasslands host zebras, giraffes, antelope, and other […]
LOCATION: Parque Nacional de Doñana
CATEGORIES: Biodiversity, Water
Spain’s Doñana Wetlands, located where the Guadalquivir River meets Atlantic, are considered one of Europe’s most valuable and iconic wetland areas. Each year, the area’s marshlands, beaches, dunes, and forests host millions of migratory birds as well as endangered species such as the imperial eagle and Iberian lynx.
LOCATION: Northern Honduras, along the Nombre de Dios Mountain Range
CATEGORIES: Biodiversity, Livelihoods, Water
This landscape consists of a matrix of protected areas interwoven with rich agricultural fields for large-scale agriculture, marginally productive hillsides used for subsistence agriculture and grazing, and over 20 rivers.
LOCATION: Aba Gerima, Ethiopia
CATEGORIES: Landscape Restoration, Water
This watershed in the Lake Tana sub-basin has a mixed crop-livestock farming system and its residents are focused on restoring ecosystem services through integrated watershed management.
LOCATION: Central Kenya around Mt. Kenya
CATEGORIES: Biodiversity, Livelihoods
Located in the humid highland slopes of Mt. Kenya, this county is home to wildlife and agricultural production.
LOCATION: Central Ethiopia in the Oromiya and the Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples Regions
CATEGORIES: Livelihoods, Water
Part of the Great African Rift Valley, this landscape supports the local communities’s domestic water use, smallholder farmers’ agriculture, and private sector flower production.
LOCATION: Central Kenya, northwest of Mt. Kenya
CATEGORIES: Biodiversity, Livestock and Pasture, Resilience, Water
This landscape is home to large wildlife populations, pastoralist communities, and expanding agricultural areas. The private sector is very involved in the areas of tourism, livestock and crop production, and real estate.
LOCATION: A county in western Kenya, bordering Uganda
CATEGORIES: Agroforestry, Food Security, Livelihoods
Located along the foothills of Mt. Elgon, Bungoma is home to smallscale farmers practicing subsistence agriculture and some cash crop production.
LOCATION: Central Ethiopia in the Oromia region
CATEGORIES: Biodiversity
Located in the Bale and West Arsi Zonal Administrations, this large landscape encompasses the Bale mountain range and surrounding eco-region.
LOCATION: Northern Ethiopia in the Tigray region
CATEGORIES: Landscape Restoration, Water
This northern watershed is located in the Eastern Tigray zone and is composed of state forest at upstream and agricultural lands downstream, with land uses including crop, grazing, state forest, area closure, and homesteads.
LOCATION: Central Ethiopia in the Amhara region
CATEGORIES: Landscape Restoration, Water
Located in the Awash basin at the boundary of the Rift Valley, this watershed is home to a sorghum-based crop-livestock system and watershed restoration techniques.
LOCATION: Southwestern Ethiopia in the Southern Nations, Nationalities and People Regional State
CATEGORIES: Agroforestry, Climate Change, Landscape Restoration
This landscape is using carbon credits to support landscape restoration through Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR).
LOCATION: Northwest Ethiopia in the Amhara Region
CATEGORIES: Livelihoods, Water
This sub-basin drains 4 major rivers around Lake Tana and is a source of the River Abbay (Blue Nile).
LOCATION: Southwestern Ethiopia
CATEGORIES: Biodiversity, Landscape Restoration, Water
Located in the Oromia region, this watershed consists of a wetland ecosystem where actors are addressing overgrazing, erosion, water depletion, and biodiversity losses.
LOCATION: The western reaches of the Southern Highlands of Tanzania
CATEGORIES: Climate Change, Food Security, Landscape Restoration
Located within the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT), Mbeya is an agricultural landscape with upstream-downstream challenges and innovative opportunities to address these challenges.
LOCATION: The south and southeast provinces of Sulawesi
CATEGORIES: Agroforestry, Livelihoods
The provinces of South and Southeast Sulawesi are home to two landscapes: in Southeast Sulawesi cacao, pepper and durian are the priority tree crops, while in South Sulawesi the farming systems are much more diversified.
LOCATION: Valdivian forest ecoregion of southern Chile
CATEGORIES: Livelihoods, Livestock and Pasture
The San Pedro river valley landscape, located in the Valdivian temperate forest ecoregion of southern Chile, is home to pastures and traditional cropland.
LOCATION: The eastern region of Uttar Pradesh (UP) state, along India's northern border with Nepal
CATEGORIES: Food Security, Resilience
The eastern region of Uttar Pradesh state is highly prone to flooding and droughts. Most of the agriculture is small-scale production of rice, wheat, and other staple crops.
LOCATION: Northwest Paraguay, part of Chaco transboundary landscape
CATEGORIES: Livestock and Pasture, Water
The northern region of El Chaco Paraguayo is part of the Gran Chaco Americano, a transboundary landscape containing the continent’s largest forested area after the Amazon. The northern Paraguayan portion is sparsely populated, with producers focused largely on livestock production.
LOCATION: The Rwambu river sub-catchment in the Rwenzori region, South Western Uganda
CATEGORIES: Food Security, Water
Wetlands landscape in the Rwambu river sub-catchment in southwestern Uganda. The wetlands support local livelihoods through the provision of fish, water, and raw materials for crafts, with local communities also involved in subsistence agriculture.
LOCATION: Begnas and Rupa Lakes in central Nepal
CATEGORIES: Agroforestry, Water
The Begnas & Rupa watershed has two lakes, community forests, rice terraces, agroforestry, maize- and millet-based rainfed farming systems, and organic coffee farms.
LOCATION: Lake Naivasha and surrounding environs, central Kenya
CATEGORIES: Landscape Restoration, Livelihoods, Water
The Naivasha Landscape consists mainly of the Lake Naivasha watershed or catchment basin, which supports a highly vibrant intensive irrigation-based agriculture for cut flowers, livestock and dairy farming, geothermal power production, fishery and tourism industry.
LOCATION: Northwest of the Nicoya Peninsula in Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica
CATEGORIES: Agroforestry, Biodiversity, Landscape Restoration, Water
Costa Rican tropical forest landscape that also includes areas covered with annual and perennial crops in the flatlands and hillsides, pastures, mangrove wetlands, flooded forests and areas for producing salt and shrimp.
LOCATION: São Felix do Xingu, Brazil
CATEGORIES: Agroforestry, Landscape Restoration, Livelihoods
This Amazonian landscape is greatly affected by illegal deforestation and conflicts over land tenure.
LOCATION: Stretching over 8 districts in Arusha and Manyara regions of Tanzania
CATEGORIES: Biodiversity, Livestock and Pasture
A semi-arid grassland that provides a core habitat for elephant, lion, wildebeest, zebra, giraffe, buffalo, oryx, and more. Maasai pastoralists graze livestock throughout the landscape.
LOCATION: The Succulent Karoo Hotspot, an arid region in western South Africa
CATEGORIES: Biodiversity, Livestock and Pasture
The Namakwa District landscape includes over a million hectares of semi-arid rangeland that is under pressure from a variety of human activities, in particular mining, unsustainable agricultural practices, overgrazing, and climate change.
LOCATION: The department of Canindeyu, Paraguay, along the border of the Brazilian drylands
CATEGORIES: Agroforestry, Food Security, Livelihoods
What was originally a large area of Atlantic Forest in the Alto Parana of the Amazon region of Brazil has been greatly modified and fragmented for livestock pastures and large-scale cultivation of agricultural commodities.
LOCATION: The Eastern Biome of Madagascar
CATEGORIES: Agroforestry, Biodiversity, Livelihoods
This landscape is mainly composed of wet forest in the low and mid elevation with several secondary forest and crop fields. It serves as habitat for many endemic species of fauna and flora (85%) and a main source of water in the eastern and western parts of Madagascar.
LOCATION: Along River Nyando, which originates from Nandi forest and Mau forest, Kenya
CATEGORIES: Landscape Restoration, Livestock and Pasture, Water
The landscape covers the mid-Nyando basin where people keep cattle and do subsistence farming, to lowlands where people also farm and fish along the banks of the lake.
LOCATION: Kikuyu Escarpment, on the eastern slopes of the Aberdare Mountains of Central Kenya
CATEGORIES: Biodiversity, Livelihoods
The landscape is known for its horticultural potential and is one of the main suppliers of agricultural products to Nairobi. Forest covers about 37,000 ha, the highest percentage of which is natural indigenous forest. The forest is an important catchment area for Nairobi.
LOCATION: Pampas of Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Brazil
CATEGORIES: Biodiversity, Livestock and Pasture
Agricultural activity, especially livestock, is the primary source of rural employment and is the base of the most traditional and emblematic markets of the country: meat, dairy and leather. Raising livestock while preserving and enhancing pasturelands preserves bird habitat and biodiversity and helps ranchers build resilience to climate change.
LOCATION: Lombok Island, Indonesia
CATEGORIES: Agroforestry, Biodiversity, Livelihoods
This landscape borders Mount Rinjani volcano and National Park. The upstream region has six springs and community agroforestry buffers the National Park. The middle region is important for agriculture, particularly tobacco, and the downstream region is important for fisheries and seaweed.
LOCATION: Northwestern Ethiopian Highlands within the Lake Tan Basin, Ethiopia
CATEGORIES: Biodiversity, Landscape Restoration, Water
The Debre Yakob Learning Watershed is located in the northwestern Ethiopian Highlands within the Lake Tana Basin. The farming system in the areas is cereal-based mixed farming system and livestock.
