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By Bruce Lloyd Crawford Fund for International Agricultural Research and the Bunbartha Landcare Group, Victoria, Australia A landscape approach is gaining traction as a natural resource management strategy Down Under. “Landcare” – Australia’s community based natural resource management (NRM) process and ethos – has endured for more than twenty years as a national move ...

Local Governance and Empowerment for Improved Wetland Management By Winrock International Staff, Edited by Gelsey Bennett, Senior Program Associate Winrock International, Arlington, Virginia, USA The Management of Aquatic Ecosystems through Community Husbandry (MACH) project in Bangladesh (implemented 1998-2009) developed an innovative approach to watershed management which cen ...

Safeguarding World Agricultural Heritage Systems By Jean Gault, Senior Officer of Natural Resources Management and Payment for Environmental Services Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rome, Italy Worldwide, specific agricultural systems and landscapes have been created, shaped, and maintained by generations of farmers and herders based on diverse na ...

A Recipe for Conservation Agriculture   By Jimmiel Mandima, Program Director of Policy African Wildlife Foundation, Washington, DC, USA Situated in the Middle Zambezi Valley, Siavonga District in southern Zambia now houses a population of approximately 72,000 subsistence farmers and fishers, many having been displaced when the vast Lake Karibawas created half a century ago. [& ...