Partners

In this research theme, FTA’s partner institutions seek to achieve multiple environmental, economic and social development objectives in landscapes, hence they work with parties implementing key conventions such as the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), and the corresponding targets of the UN SDGs.

The political commitment in the Bonn Challenge for forest landscape restoration has led to government initiatives, such as the 20×20 initiative for Latin America, for which FTA partners were among the founders. FTA partners are also actively participating in the AFR100 restoration initiative in Africa.

National agricultural and forestry research organizations constitute an important group of partners for FTA landscape theme activities, with linkages to national extension systems as well as local policy and action networks.

Further partnerships will be developed strategically to increase the likelihood that a relevant enabling environment will emerge, with organizations including the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), the World Resources Institute (WRI), the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and the Ibero-American Model Forest Network.