In October 2013, the Cornell Landscapes Research Forum brought together faculty and guest speakers interested in socio-ecological landscape approaches to understanding complex problems and opportunities at the interface of ecosystem conservation, sustainable agricultural production, livelihood security, and multi-stakeholder governance, and in designing or scaling up strategies to address them. In this slideshow, Dr. Christine Negra discusses the work of the Landscapes for People, Food and Nature (LFPN) Inititative, an international collaborative initiative of cross-sectoral knowledge sharing, dialogue and action to support the integrated management of rural landscapes for food production, ecosystem conservation, and sustainable livelihoods. Dr. Negra, who is co-Leader of the research working group of the Initiative, discusses the five working groups of the Initiative and some of the exciting knowledge products they have released so far. For more information about LPFN, please visit landscapes.ecoagriculture.org.

1. Integrated landscape management
for people, food and nature
Dr Christine Negra
Research Program, EcoAgriculture Partners
Landscapes Research Forum
Cornell University
October 10, 2013

2. www.landscapes.ecoagriculture.org

3. Objective: To catalyze scaling up integrated
landscape management (ILM), for:
● Climate-resilient, diversified
agricultural production
● Secure access to food, fuel, fiber
● Rural livelihoods and culture
● Biodiversity
● Watershed functions
● Terrestrial climate mitigation

4. ● Synthesize diverse
knowledge sets
● Promote learning and
document experience across
communities of practice
● Foster dialogue and action among diverse groups
● pool resources for advocacy and outreach
● link high-level policy initiatives and landscape actors
N Palmer (CIAT)
LPFN ‘Value-Added’

5. Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue
Nairobi
International
Forum
Committee for World Food
Security. 39th Session
Summit for
Sustainability in
Africa
(Botswana)
IUCN World
Conservation
Congress
Climate-Smart
Agricultural Global
Science Conference
(UC Davis)
Rio+20
Stockholm World
Water Week
UNFCCC COP 18
(Doha)
Second Global Conference on
Agricultural Research for
Development (GCARD 2)
Second Global
Conference on
Agriculture, Food
Security, and
Climate Change
(Hanoi)

6. Organization of LPFN Initiative
● 9 Co-organizers
● Many strategic partners
● 6 working groups
● Secretariat:
EcoAgriculture
Co-Organizers
Secretariat
Strategic
Partners
Working
Groups

7. Some LPFN strategic partners

8. Examples of current EcoAg / LPFN funders
● UNEP-GEF: core LPFN support
● NORAD: civil society engagement in ILM
● Moore: business engagement; governance; ILI review (LA)
● Int’l Finance Corporation: biodiversity & agricultural
commodities
● CGIAR: agricultural C projects; ecosystem services and
resilience; ILI review (Asia)
● World Bank: scaling up ‘agroforestry’; environment &
commodity landscapes
● TerrAfrica: sustainable land management

9. Global Review – ILM ‘knowledge products’
• Continental reviews of
integrated landscape initiatives
• Social and institutional aspects
Landscape Strengthening, WG1
• Supportive policy and
governance
Policy, WG2
• Supportive market
mechanisms
• Priority investments
• Landscape science for
development research agenda
Business, WG3
Financing, WG4
Science & Knowledge, WG5

10. Global Review Products Completed
 Continental reviews of landscape
initiatives
 Climate-smart landscape planning
 Linking climate change mitigation &
adaptation
 Agro-ecological intensification
 Finance for climate-smart agriculture
 Impact of eco-certification
 Landscape approach to sustainable
sourcing
 Water management in landscapes

11. Global Review Products Underway






Agrobiodiversity in landscapes
Market mechanisms for ILM
Financing ILM
Policy tools for ILM
Governance for ILM
Producer movements

12. Global Review: some examples

13. Agroecological intensification (KP 1.3)
● Meta-review of yield, ecosystem
services (ES) and extent of AEI
● Five illustrative AEI approaches:
●
●
●
●
●
Conservation agriculture
Holistic grazing management
Organic agriculture
Precision agriculture
System of Rice Intensification (SRI)

14. Agroecological intensification (cont.)
● Evidence of outcomes
● SRI: positive and win-win outcomes
● Other AEI: mixed
● Extent of adoption
● 1st order estimates
● Best data for organic agriculture
● AEI literature gaps:
● Multi-functionality
● Temporal dimensions
● Quantification of yield and ES

15. Review of ILIs in Latin America (KP 0.1)
● Surveyed 104 integrated landscape
initiatives in 21 countries
● Motivations and outcomes for 4 ‘domains’
of multi-functionality:
● Agriculture
● Conservation
● Livelihoods
● Institutional planning / coordination

16. ILIs in Latin America
● ILI ‘life cycle’: 4 stages
● Identity –> institutions –> implementation –>
results at scale
● Success factors: policy, funding, social
conditions, stakeholder interest, landscape
size and population density
● Research needed:
● Objective, quantitative assessments of the
outcomes of ILIs

17. Landscape approach for sustainable sourcing (KP5.1)
● Understand when and why
agribusinesses think – and act – at
landscape scale
● Global scoping: 27 examples, 3 case
studies
Strategic Advisory Committee: World Business Council
for Sustainable Development, IFC, Rio Tinto, Unilever,
Nestlé and Mars Inc.
Working Group: Conservation International, Rainforest
Alliance, Solidaridad, African Wildlife Foundation,
World Resources Institute, Fauna and Flora
International, Root Capital, University of Greenwich,
and EcoAgriculture Partners.

18. Starbucks and CI: landscape approach to
coffee in Mexico, Indonesia and Brazil
● Risks / rationales
 Volatile market prices, farmer incomes
 Declining production (climate, aging farmers)
 Env’l risks (deforestation, GHGs, water)
● Modes
 Supply chain intervention (C.A.F.E. practices)
 Regional producer support interventions (farmer
loans)
 Carbon payments
● Research needed:
 Potential of landscape approach to reduce risks
in key sourcing regions

19. A few other EcoAgriculture projects

20. ● Grant-making facility (IFC, Chemonics International,
EcoAgriculture Partners)
● Protect biodiversity in agricultural commodity
landscapes through BMPs, supply chain approaches
● Market Transformation Strategies for palm oil, soy,
and cocoa
● 20 projects in 9 countries for a total $6.3m

21. Brazil: Solidaridad and Sustainable Soy
● Inclusion of Biodiversity Friendly
Smallholder Soy in Preferential Markets
● Assist producers with certification
under Round Table for Responsible Soy
(RTRS)
● Smallholder Soy Self-Assessment
Toolkit
● BMP demonstration and training
● Link certified soy to CSR frontrunner
companies
● Innovative no-till weed management
pilot

22. Tree-based ecosystems approaches (TBEAs)
● Literature review of TBEAs at scale
● 40 different TBEAs across 111 sites in
53 countries
● Drivers: improve soil, income,
subsistence production
● Wide variety of quantitative and
qualitative descriptions of impacts
● Poor description of TBEA adoption
and extent

23. ● Shared conceptual framework
for assessing impacts across
different sites
● Spatial analyses to determine geographic distribution
and extent of TBEAs
● Comprehensive case studies to understand scaling up
processes and dynamics at landscape scale
D Van der Made
TBEAs: recommendations

24. Directions for research
collaboration
● Address literature gaps in multi-functionality,
temporal dimensions of ILM
● Agree definitions / metrics for ILM adoption and
scaling up
● Test meta-hypothesis:
● Improved multi-stakeholder processes  improved
practices and policies  increased multi-functionality in
landscapes

25. Today
● Get to know each other and find areas of common interest /
synergy
October - December
● Identify existing projects where we could usefully support
each other
● Work toward proposals that tackle complex, multidisciplinary challenges
January
● Bring strategic partners and prospective funders to Cornell to
design research for development initiatives

26. Discussion groups
● Topics of high interest for EcoAg / LPFN
● Scaling up ILM (incl private sector) – Rice 300
● Understanding / managing multi-functional landscapes –
Bruckner 224
● Managing / governing multi-stakeholder ILM systems – Rice
109
● Initiate a concept note
● Research for development problem statement
● Indicative research activities
● Ideas for funders and partners (Cornell and beyond) to
investigate

27. Thank you!
www.landscapes.ecoagriculture.org
blog.ecoagriculture.org