Operationalizing Landscape Approaches

Operationalizing Landscape Approaches
“Down to Earth” Side Event
The Hague, Netherlands, 5 November 2010
Sara J. Scherr, President
EcoAgriculture Partners

Agenda
Video on Ecoagriculture landscapes
Panel
Sara J. Scherr, EcoAgriculture – Introduction
Tamara Benjamin, CATIE – Latin America
Constance Neely, ICRAF – Rangelands
George Wamukoya, COMESA – Africa
Peter Veen, Dutch Society for Nature Conservation – Europe
Discussion

Ecoagriculture landscapes
Agricultural landscapes managed to enhance rural livelihoods and sustainable agricultural production (of crops, livestock, fish and forest), while conserving or restoring ecosystem services and biodiversity.

Diverse landscape strategies
Willamette Valley, USA
Kabale, Uganda
Eastern Region, Burkina Faso
Tea Zone, Kenya

Align diverse objectives through
multi-stakeholder planning & action

Increase agricultural productivity, resilience and sustainability in farm fields
Agrobiodiversity
Diverse crop varieties & breeds, improved germplasm, HYV’s
Integrated pest management
Uses biodiversity for pest control, lowering synthetic input costs
Integrated water management
More efficient water use plus irrigation
Integrated soil conservation
Improved organic content and natural nutrient cycling lower synthetic input costs, improve soil health, water-holding and infiltration
Agroforestry
Tree-growing for food, fuel, feed, medicine, building, soil nutrients, soil protection, windbreaks, and income

Maintain ecosystem services & biodiversity in agricultural landscape mosaics
In conservation areas
Natural areas that benefit local farming communities
Provide watershed protection, habitat connectivity thru non-farmed areas
Reduce or reverse land conversion by increasing farm productivity
Develop species conservation plans
In production areas
Minimize agricultural pollution (incl. GHG)
Manage water flow, use & infiltration--plot,farm,landscape
Increase carbon storage in soils and vegetation
Modify farming systems to mimic natural ecosystems
Maintain diversity of crop species & varieties

Productivity-enhancing innovations
with positive impacts on ecosystems
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Conservation innovations with positive impacts for farmers
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Potential benefits for farmers of engaging in ecoagriculture landscape initiatives
Increase profits (reduce production costs, increase yields, improve quality)
2) Conserve ecosystem services important for their livelihoods
Link with buyers who want products that protect biodiversity
Sell ecosystem services
5) Comply with environmental regulations
6) Protect rights to crop, graze, collect products from protected areas
7) Enhance local quality of life
8) Reduce conflicts with other groups
9) Protect cultural, spiritual values

Positive impacts of integrated landscape initiatives have been documented
Smallholder production & community livelihoods
Enhanced ecosystem services & biodiversity
Banikoara District, Benin - livestock corridor
Kericho, Kenya – certified tea
Luangwa Valley, Zambia - wildlife-friendly farming
Loess Plateau, China – degraded land restoration
Rajasthan, India – landscape water harvesting
Cebu, Philippines – watershed restoration
Kalinga, Philippines – forest biodiversity & agrobiodiversity conservation with intensification
8) Talamanca, Costa Rica – farmer-led biodiversity conservation and eco-label marketing
Matiguas, Nicaragua – payment to farmers for ecosystem services on farmland

Process of multi-stakeholder ecoagriculture landscape management
Understand the landscape from diverse perspectives *
Stakeholders negotiate landscape goals
Participatory process of rural landscape management
Track & review results and modify strategy/action
Design and plan farm & landscape actions, finance, responsibilities
Implement farm & landscape plans

Collaborative landscape planning: spatial
strategy for land use & management
Landscape assessment and future scenarios

Collaborative landscape planning: programs, policies and investments
Upper watershed protection
policies:
PES for hillside revegetation and on-farm agroforestry
30-meter riparian zone protection
Sectors align, coordinate or integrate
Intensive agriculture zone policies:
Farmer education on IPM
15-meter riparian zone protection
Community stream monitoring

Core capacities & tools needed to implement ecoagriculture landscape strategies
Landscape literacy (spatial, functional)
Multi-stakeholder deliberation and negotiation (across sectors)
Farm & landscape ‘design’ (who does what, where, how?)
Collaborative implementation
Landscape tracking and assessment (production, ecosystems, livelihoods, institutions)

The Landscape Measures Resource Center: Tools for assessing landscape performance
Contents
Process
Practice
Case Studies
Glossary
A web-based hub for a virtual learning network
Testing in “learning landscapes”
www.landscapemeasures.org

Landscapes for People, Food and Nature: Ecoagriculture Conference & Knowledge Exchange
Venue and date:
Nairobi, Kenya - January 2012
Objectives:
Share and take stock of experience
Showcase tools, methods, practices
Define international action agenda to scale ecoagriculture (Rio + 20, et al)
Participants:
Landscape leaders & innovators

Please visit our website at…
Thank you!
www.ecoagriculture.org

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