Landscapes

Publicado originalmente en Agronews Castilla y Leon La Fundación Cesefor es integrante desde hace dos años del proyecto EcoAdapt (acrónimo de Ecosystem-based strategies and innovations in water governance networks for adaptation to climate change in Latin American Landscapes, y que puede traducirse como ‘Estrategias basadas en el ecosistema e innovaciones en las redes de gestión del agua para la adaptación […]

By Kate Langford, originally published at World Agroforestry Centre If it’s a heterogeneous, multifunctional landscape in a smallholder context then there’s a pretty good chance climate change researchers are interested in it. If the landscape is contributing to greater food security, storing carbon and helping farmers cope with changes in climate, then all the better. In […]

By Rachel Kyte, Vice President and Special Envoy, Climate Change Group, World Bank, originally published at World Bank The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) tells us that to rein in climate change and keep global warming under 2°C, we will have to start reducing emissions now and get to near net zero emissions […]

This month the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE) has launched an Ecosystem Services and Resilience Framework, about a core theme of their research. WLE supports an approach to sustainable intensification whereby healthy, functioning ecosystems are seen as a prerequisite to agricultural development, food security and human well-being. The Framework will serve as the guiding […]

By Bruno Vander Velde, originally posted at Forests News A new research paper lays out conditions for “landscape approaches” to work on the ground—an important step in translating the vaunted sustainable development framework from theory to practice. By no means a new concept, the landscape approach—billed as an inclusive and equitable way to balance competing land-use demands—has […]

  The ‘Integrated Landscape Approach’ provides a basic framework for balancing competing demands and integrating policies for multiple land uses within a given area. However, attempts to formalize and characterize what the landscape approach actually represents have resulted in a plethora of interlinked terminology and re-invention of ideas and practices under multiple guises. The current […]