October 8, 2014
Hope for Human-Altered Landscapes in Southern Bangladesh
Md. Abdullah Al Mamun, REEP Green Solutions
Flood control measures do more harm than good for local fishers Bangladesh is a watershed-based country with dynamic ecosystems—including floodplains and wetlands—that are experiencing biodiversity losses and degradation. Since the 1970s, the government of Bangladesh has encouraged the draining of wetlands and established embankments to protect farmlands and houses from dev ...
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September 10, 2014
Spatial-Temporal Monitoring of Land Use Change in Brazil
Victor Coelho, Pernambuco Federal University/Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
Changes in land use caused by human actions have generated major impacts on the landscape, including the substitution of natural areas for diverse uses and the fragmentation of forested areas. These impacts can be mitigated by land use and land cover monitoring, which uses spatial-temporal information to track changes occurring in the landscape. Currently, the […] ...
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September 5, 2014
European Wood-Pastures as Cultural Landscapes
Tobias Plieninger
University of Copenhagen
Tibor Hartel
European landscapes are shaped by long-lasting, intensive and complex interactions between people and nature. This interaction has generated values that are appreciated by society, nowadays called “landscape values” or “ecosystem services,” but many of these cultural landscape values are in decline. Wood-pastures—combinations of grazing lands with scattered trees—ar ...
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September 3, 2014
Integrated Waterscape Management in Vietnam’s Central Highlands
Southeast Asia probably isn’t the first place you think of when it comes to coffee production, but trade liberalization has made Vietnam the world’s second largest exporter of our favorite morning pick-me-up. Along with pepper and (increasingly) cocoa, this commodity is contributing to the country’s economic development. Unfortunately, harmful agricultural practices and ...
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August 29, 2014
Guna Yala and REDD+: A Look at Why Some Resist
Jes Walton
EcoAgriculture Partners
Recently, several of us at EcoAgriculture Partners discussed the need to explore why some groups resist or hesitate to adopt ecoagricultural practices and integrated approaches to landscape management. As the Third International Conference for Small Island Developing States (SIDS) meets in Samoa this week, the case of the Guna people, whose ancestral lands of Guna […] ...
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August 1, 2014
Close to Home: Exploring Three of Virginia’s Working Landscapes
Jes Walton
EcoAgriculture Partners
This blog often focuses on the geographies and management techniques of faraway (from our headquarters in Washington, DC) lands like the Eastern High Atlas of Morocco or Northern Tanzania’s culturally and ecologically unique Maasai Steppe Heartlands. But, this week, EcoAgriculture Partners’ staff ventured out into the field to explore several landscapes closer to our home ...
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July 23, 2014
Diving Deeply Into Integrated Landscape Management: The Case of Araucarias del Alto Malleco Model Forest in Chile
English Español What does it actually mean to be a platform that supports integrated landscape management? After working day in and day out with landscape leaders striving to implement landscape approaches while conducting the Continental Review of Integrated Landscape Initiatives in Latin America and the Caribbean, I found that I was still full of questions […] ...
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July 4, 2014
Managing Landscapes in Africa: From ‘Evil Forests’ to a Half-Urban, Half-Rural People
Daisy Ouya
World Agroforestry Centre
Policy makers in Africa must think globally, regionally and locally for sustainable landscape management. Africa—a diverse, resource-rich yet food-insecure continent—urgently needs an integrated landscapes approach to policy-making in order to meet food security and development goals while protecting the natural resource base that makes it all possible. To feed and nourish ...
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June 9, 2014
Participatory Policy Making for Integrated Landscape Management in Kenya
Krista Heiner
EcoAgriculture Partners
Sensing the participants were getting a little restless after several hours of discussing policy challenges for the integrated management of water resources in the Lake Naivasha Landscape, Joan Kimayu, a lead facilitator with the Strengthening Rural Institutions Program at the World Agroforestry Centre, wondered what she could do to make a group of government officials [&hellip ...
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April 22, 2014
A Day for Green Cities: Naivasha, Kenya
Eleanor Greene
EcoAgriculture Partners
The theme of Earth Day 2014 is Green Cities, and as the cities of the world gear up for a day, a year, a future of more climate- and Earth-friendly practices and activities, we want to bring focus to a city region that is making an effort toward a sustainable agriculture future. Naivasha is a […] ...
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