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Looking at the past to shape the Landscape Approach of the future

10 December, 2018

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This video was originally published by the Global Landscapes Forum (GLF).

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Developing and applying an approach for the sustainable management of landscapes

04 June, 2018

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Departing CIFOR scientists Terry Sunderland and James Reed from the Center for International Forestry Research’s (CIFOR) Sustainable Landscapes and Food Systems team spoke on the sidelines of the Global Landscapes Forum (GLF), held from Dec. 19-20 in Bonn, Germany. The pair shared their findings so far on developing and applying a ‘landscapes approach’ for sustainable management of landscapes to benefit the people who depend on them.

Originally published by CIFOR.

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Integrated landscape approaches to managing social and environmental issues in the tropics: learning from the past to guide the future

06 May, 2016

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Authors: James Reed, Josh Van Vianen, Elizabeth L. Deakin, Jos Barlow, Terry Sunderland

Poverty, food insecurity, climate change and biodiversity loss continue to persist as the primary environmental and social challenges faced by the global community. As such, there is a growing acknowledgement that conventional sectorial approaches to addressing often inter-connected social, environmental, economic and political challenges are proving insufficient.

An alternative is to focus on integrated solutions at landscape scales or ‘landscape approaches’. The appeal of landscape approaches has resulted in the production of a significant body of literature in recent decades, yet confusion over terminology, application and utility persists. Focusing on the tropics, we systematically reviewed the literature to:

(i) disentangle the historical development and theory behind the framework of the landscape approach and how it has progressed into its current iteration,

(ii) establish lessons learned from previous land management strategies,

(iii) determine the barriers that currently restrict implementation of the landscape approach and

(iv) provide recommendations for how the landscape approach can contribute towards the fulfilment of the goals of international policy processes.

This review suggests that, despite some barriers to implementation, a landscape approach has considerable potential to meet social and environmental objectives at local scales while aiding national commitments to addressing ongoing global challenges.

This overview of the landscape approach is based upon a robust and thorough review of both the peer-reviewed and grey literature. This involved analysing more than 13 000 peer-reviewed articles, over 500 grey literature documents and screening the websites of over 30 key research organizations.

The research forms part of the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry. Also published at Center for International Forestry Research.

Read full research review at Global Change Biology (April 2016, open access)

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From global complexity to local reality: Aligning implementation frameworks with Sustainable Development Goals and landscape approaches

26 November, 2015

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Key messages

  • Many of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) retain a sectorial focus; however, emphasis is placed on the need for integration across goals and targets.
  • Given that there are inherent synergies and trade-offs embedded throughout, applying sectorial approaches to achieving the SDGs will likely be ineffective.
  • Integrated landscape approaches offer significant potential as an implementing framework for addressing interlinked and conflicting challenges.
  • This brief identifies where the current set of goals would benefit from a landscape approach and to what degree, and presents key recommendations.

Source: CIFOR publications

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