CIFOR Director General Peter Holmgren's keynote speech at the Asia-Pacific Rainforest Stakeholder Dialogue in Sydney, Australia, 11 November 2014. Holmgren presents the importance of landscape approaches for meeting sustainable development goals and maintaining a healthy balance in land use decision making - to emphasize how the world's future can be maximized for food security, biodiversity conservation, economic stability and human health. Learn more about landscapes at http://www.landscapes.org

1. Landscape approaches
to maximize social, economic and environmental outcomes
Peter Holmgren, Director General CIFOR
Asia-Pacific Rainforest Stakeholder Dialogue
Sydney, 11 November 2014

2. Which
outcomes?
1. Improved
Livelihoods
2. Sustained
ecosystem
services
4. Resource
efficiency
3. Food & non-food
products

3. A common language for landscapes
Outcomes, measures, performance
• Easy to understand
• Apply to any scale
• Apply to any location
• Measurable
• Sustainability can mean
improvement over time
• Enabling conditions for scaling up
private finance & investments

4. Better nutrition through safe drinking water
– the case of Jakarta

5. Agriculture fires and expansion
in Sumatra landscapes

7. Are landscapes important?
1. Livelihood for billions of people
2. Production of all our food
• and other renewable products (wood, non-wood)
3. Source of 1/3 of greenhouse gas emissions (land use)
4. Home to all terrestrial biodiversity
5. Cornerstone in a green economy
Yes. They are important. Very important.

8. Vision of our future?
A planet with healthy landscapes.

9. Now some big-picture context.

10. Global developments 1960-2010
Billion people

11. What to expect –
innovation context
 9.6 billion people in 2050
 Changing consumption patterns
 Continued economic growth
 Expectations of justice and equity
 Migrations to seek new opportunities
 Increased climate variability
Only 30-40 years ahead,
the world will not look like today.
Next steps: SDGs and COP21, Paris

12. SDGs are proxies of the Outcomes we seek
Forests / Landscapes significant to achieving each
Draft SDGs as of July 2014. Note! Not final.
1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere
2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture
3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote life-long learning opportunities for all
5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
7. Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all
8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
10. Reduce inequality within and among countries
11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts*
14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification,
and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective,
accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development

13. Scaling up affordable and equitable finance for
investing in sustainable land use
 Investor:
• A lot of capital ready for good investment propositions
that also contribute to sustainable development
 Farmers / Producers / Protectors:
• Access to long-term, affordable and reliable capital is a
major limiting factor for our enterprises
 Public sector:
• Desire to use public funds for demonstrable results in
delivering public goods and sustainable development
 Connecting the dots: a Landscape Fund

14. So.
What is a ”landscape”?
What is the ”landscape approach”?
And how do we keep it simple enough?

15. Landscape = “Place with governance in place”
Scale
Formal
Governance formalization
Private
farms,
forests
Districts,
Provinces,
Major cities
Communal
land
Biosphere
reserves,
Model forests
Countries
Municipalities
Producer
cooperatives
Land-related
international
conventions
Local Global
Informal
Corporations
Protected
areas
Earth
Major
watersheds
Public
forests

16. On the “Landscape approach”
 Landscapes have in common:
• multiple stakeholders
• multiple purposes / goals
 The Landscape approach is about:
• negotiating values, priorites and trade-offs
- comparing apples and pears!
• taking action
• evaluating progress
• with a general view to “maximize outcomes”

17. So, “Landscape approach” to “maximize outcomes”…

18. Global
Landscapes
Forum
6-7 Dec 2014
Lima, Peru
landscapes.org

19. #thinklandscape
Take-home messages
1. Healthy Landscapes are fundamental for our future.
2. Landscape approach does not seek to replace existing
institutions, sectors or processes, but to connect them.
3. Landscape approach is about negotiation
4. Keep it simple.
5. Embrace diversity of solutions.
6. Make it attractive to mainstream politics and finance.