A Look at the IAASTD
By Hans Herren, Director Millennium Institute, Washington, DC, USA In 2008, a UN-commissioned effort, the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science, and Technology for Development...
View ArticleJoin the Dialogue for Rio
For the past few weeks we’ve been following organizations working in agriculture on the way to Rio+20. Last week, the blog highlighted the CGIAR Consortium‘s one stop shop for anything related to the...
View ArticleLandscape of the Week: The Usuthu Gorge
By Dr. Emmanuel Torquebiau French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD) and Centre for Environmental Studies, University of Pretoria, South Africa The Usuthu Gorge area, to...
View ArticlePromoting Resilient, Adaptive, and Sustainable Agricultural Practices in India
The Watershed Organization Trust (WOTR) is promoting a new Crop System Intensification agenda. The agenda demonstrates the significance of promoting sustainable agricultural practices and protecting...
View ArticleWater beyond Borders
As the Blog post on Tuesday noted, spatial arrangement of a landscape can have implications for the availability of water resources needed in agriculture. Another important consideration is that of...
View ArticleThe Power of We: Stakeholders in Agricultural Landscapes
‘The Power of We.’ This year’s theme for Blog Action Day, an international effort to bring together bloggers from around the world to blog on a globally significant topic, encapsulates a critical...
View ArticleAnother Food Day: Talking About Systems
Yesterday marked the second annual Food Day in the United States. Not to be confused with the international observance of World Food Day that celebrated agricultural cooperatives last Tuesday, the...
View ArticlePartnering for Landscapes at International Agriculture Conference
Partnerships – a primary theme and prevailing topic of discussion during the second Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development – were touted as essential elements to link research to...
View ArticleA Voice for Agriculture
“No agriculture, no deal” was the mantra coming out the fifth Agriculture, Landscapes, and Livelihoods (ALL, formerly Agriculture and Rural Development) Day on Monday. Yet it appears as though the...
View ArticleAn African Account of Ecosystem Service Provision
A recent article in the journal Ecosystem Services examines the range of ecosystem services in Africa, the threats to them, and policies to preserve them. It touches on an issue related to Monday’s...
View ArticleOpening a Dialogue in 2013
Dialogue, discussion, partnership, coordination, collaboration. Regardless of how it is framed, this notion of crossing sectors, disciplines, and interest groups has been a recurring theme in the...
View ArticleLandscape of the Week: Farmers of the Caribbean
Implementation of Sustainable Farming Practices in Trinidad’s Northern Range Communities In the hillsides of Trinidad’s Northern Range, smallholder subsistence farming systems dominate the landscape....
View ArticleFinding Solutions From the Land
“We have now, for the first time in human history, the capacity to not only feed a planet, but to do it with tools that allow us to look at biodiversity, look at ecosystem benefits, look at a...
View ArticleBecoming Conflict-Smart
By Elisabeth Kvitashvili, Deputy Assistant Administrator-designate for Middle East Bureau and former Director of the Office of Conflict Management and Mitigation, US Agency for International...
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No Regrets: Adaptation Planning for Uncertainty
Categories: Exploring the EvidenceTags: AfricaCGIARClimate ChangeCommunityEast AfricaMulti-stakeholderResearchToolsAs discussed Wednesday on the Landscapes Blog, this week began with the observance of...
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Ecosystem-Based Approaches for Resilience
Categories: Staying CurrentTags: AdaptationAgricultural DevelopmentClimate ChangeEcosystem ServicesEventsMulti-stakeholderResilienceWhether for banana management in Uganda or a mixed crop and livestock...
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A Bundle of Ecosystem Services: Principles for Resilience in Agricultural...
Categories: Exploring the EvidenceTags: diversityEcosystem ServicesEventsgovernanceMulti-stakeholderPublicationsResilienceTropicsBy Megan Meacham, Stockholm Resilience Center and Beijer Institute of...
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Disruptive Conservation: A Path to Landscape Resiliency
Categories: Landscape of the Week Voices from the FieldTags: Multi-stakeholderResilienceUnited StatesWaterWatershedBy Tim Gieseke, Founder and President, Ag Resource Strategies, LLC, USA As the...
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Cooperating for a More Water Resilient World
Categories: Staying CurrentTags: Collective ActionEventsMulti-stakeholderWaterWatershedEvery year at the beginning of September, eyes turn toward Stockholm and issues related to water during World...
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Mainstreaming the Payment of Watershed Environmental Services
Categories: Exploring the EvidenceTags: Ecosystem ServicesMulti-stakeholderPESWaterWatershedBy Luis Gamez Hernandez, Public Utilities Company of Heredia, Costa Rica As World Water Week continues to...
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