Presentation held by Hanna Sinare, Stockholm Resilience Centre - at the young researchers meeting on multifunctional landscapes, Gothenburg June 7-8, 2016.
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ppt on laws of environmental law
Understanding multifunctional landscapes and their change to inform intensification efforts
1. Understanding multifunctional
landscapes and their change
to inform intensification efforts
Hanna Sinare
Multifunctional landscapes for food security, livelihoods
and the environment
7-8 June 2016
2.
3. Outline
• Entry point to these
landscapes
• Approach to study these
landscapes
• Changes in landscape
units and ecosystem
services 1950-2013
• Implications for
sustainable intensification
4. Entry point: Large scale studies show a
greener Sahel
Herrmann et al. (2005)
Trends in residual NDVI, 1982-2003
5. What does it mean for people?
Change in ecosystem services
The benefits people obtain from ecosystems
Co-produced by humans in ecosystems
7. Provisioning ecosystem services
Cereals Legumes
Vegetables Leaf vegetables
from herbs
Leaf vegetables from trees
Fruits Medicine
Firewood Construction material
Livestock
10. Change in social-ecological patches
• Increase of fields, decrease of shrubland and woodland
– 3 villages: Fields covered 40 % in 1950’s, increased to 60-70
% 2010’s
– 2 villages 30 % 1950’s, increase to 40 % and 60 %
– 1 village almost 70 % Fields 1952, increse to almost 80 % in
mid-1980’s
1952/1955 1967/1968 1983/1984 1996 2006/2010 2013/2016
11. 1952 1967
1984 1996
2006 2013
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
1952
1968
1984
1996
2006
2013
Public
building
areas
Bare Soil
Shrubland
Forest
Woodland
Depression
Homesteads
Fields1967
13. Messages and questions for
intensification efforts
• Multiple benefits from each patch – assess
changes in all of them to understand livelihood
effects of intensification
• Model effects – how can intensification change
patches?
• How can intensification be sustainable and
attract new generations of farmers?
14. Line Gordon, Elin Enfors Kautsky, Lowe Börjeson
Katja Malmborg
Korodjouma Ouattara, Souleymane Paré, Issa Ouedraogo
INERA Burkina Faso
Funded by Sida
Thank you!
15. Change in social-ecological patches over time
• 100 x 100 m squares with point 5 m
radius in the middle
– Social-ecological patch
• Systematic or random changes
between social-ecological patches?
• Change in role of the landscape for
livelihoods?
Bilder på landskap det handlar om, outline kommer in som ta fram
Counter narrative to the dominant narrative of human induced degradation and desertification
NDVI x 10^4 eller NDVI x 10^2
In six villages (three greening up more, three less)
Verified in these larger zones
Participatory field methods identified provisioning ecosystem services of key importance
Including food sources, materials and livestock
Also with participatory field methods identified landscape units corresponding to the way people talk about their landscapes.
Call them social-ecological patches.
New patches added after verification on provincial scale and over time
Change in s-ep over time to say something about change in potential for ecosystem services
I will present general trends and then show one village as example.
Different when largest increase, to mid-80’s (2) or 2006 (1)
3. Intensification a long time as population density has increased 46 inahb/km2 1960 to 80 inhab/km2 2006
Depression 4-10 %, Zarin almost nothing
Yields are highly variable. Have increased in general, but not so much per capita.
Soil: inluence, but no clear relations.
Glömde byta bakgrundsbild
What does a certian change in area covered by a social-ecological patch mean for ecosystem services and benefits?
Sketches example for three patches based on qualitative data
To produce maps of ecosystem services potential
As I said – coproduction: therefore work on how to relate this to qualitative data from focus groups and secondary data on population and occupation from secondary data.
Relate this to intensification
Agricultural land in these agroforestry systems generate multiple beneftits that needs to be assessed together to understand full effect of efforts on livelihood contributions.
Change in patch structure e.g. tree density
Open up more space for e.g. Shrubland?
Tried to set aside shrubland in one of the municipalities wher 3 villages are located – did not work.
+ 2013 from Google earth pro
S-e patch – set of ES – decrease/increase – does that match change in need/use?
Systematic or random changes in s-e patches
Need to look at context to identify s-e patch