Presentation by Sara Scherr (President, EcoAgriculture Partners) at the May 15, 2013 event "Natural Resource Management and Food Security for a Growing Population". For more information visit: http://www.wri.org/event/2013/05/natural-resource-management-and-food-security-growing-population

1. Food Security and Sustainable Resource
Use: Comments
Sara J. Scherr, President, EcoAgriculture Partners
Natural Resource Management and Food Security for a Growing Population
World Resources Institute,Washington, DC – May 15, 2013

2. Securing Food Supply in the 21st Century:
Beyond Field-Scale Productivity

3. More than Food: Societal Demands from
Agricultural Landscapes

4. Beyond Resource Use Efficiency:
Negotiating Whole Landscape System Efficiency

5. Whole Landscapes for Food, Fiber, Energy, Health,
Water,Livelihoods,Biodiversity,Ecosystem,Climate

7. Integrated Landscapes: Key Features
1) Agreed management objectives encompass multiple landscape benefits
2) Collaborative, community-engaged processes are in place for dialogue,
planning, negotiating and monitoring decisions
3) Production practices contribute to multiple objectives at farm and
landscape scales
4) Interactions among different parts of the landscape realize positive socio-
ecological synergies or mitigate negative trade-offs
5) Market, tenure and policy frameworks are shaped to achieve the diverse set
of landscape objectives

8. LandscapeTransformation in Ethiopia
● Operating as MERET since 2002, 400,000
has degraded land rehabiliated in 451 sub-
watersheds, 125,000 direct beneficiaries,
40% female
● Menu of 48 activities in AE/E and
Livelihoods and Local Level Participatory
Planning Approach (LLPPA)
● Impacts inTigray:
● Investment in re-vegetation, terracing,
community and farm-scale water harvesting
restored water (ground, farm, streams)
● Irrigation & improved soil organic matter
increased crop production 200-400%
● Dependence on food aid during droughts
reduced from 90 to 10% households
● Transformation within 5-10 years
● Climate mitigation at landscape scale
● Institutionalization of approach in Ethiopia

9. LandscapeTransformation in Ecuador
● Community Consortium of River
JubonesWatershed--socio-ecological
interactions for food & water security
● Since 2000; now 37 municipal govts
● ‘Territorial facilitators’ for action
 Income diversification
 Increased farm production, using
agro-ecological methods
 New markets incl. eco-markets
 Improved well-being of women,
children
 Protection of water sources
through community-based water
users associations
 Restoration of riparian habitat
 Coordinated legal and policy action

10. An Explosion of Innovation on the Ground

11. Ongoing Integrated Landscape Initiatives
Latin America & Caribbean Sub-Saharan Africa
# Integrated Landscape
Initiatives Identified
104 87
# Countries Represented 21 33
Most Common Motivations
for Stakeholder
Collaboration
Biodiversity Conservation,
Reducing Natural Resource
Degradation
Biodiversity and Natural
Resource Conservation
Average # Stakeholders
Involved in Initiative
(primary stakeholders)
11
(farmers, local government,
NGOs)
9+
(local/district government,
NGOs, producer groups)
Core Investment Domains Institutional planning &
coordination, Agricultural
production, Conservation &
Livelihoods
Institutional planning &
coordination; Conservation;
Agricultural production
Milder, et al. Unpublished Data

12. Leaders
Overcoming
Institutional
Silos and
Fragmentation
of Effort

13. Agroecological Practices that Generate Both
HigherYields and Ecosystem Services
Ecosystem
Service
Conservation
Agriculture
Holistic
Grazing
Organic
Agriculture
Precision
Agriculture
System of Rice
Intensification
Number of studies that indicate positive, neutral or negative outcomes for select system & service combinations.
+ = - + = - + = - + = - + = -
Pest
Control
1 2 4 7 6
Soil Fertility
& Structure
14 2 4 4 3 3 55 8 1 1 12 2 1
Nutrient
Cycling
6 1 2 2 1 1 23 39 5 12 2
Wild
Biodiversity
3 11 23 1 2
Erosion
Control
10 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
H20 qual. &
quant.
16 2 2 1 1 9 52 2
Garbach, et al. 2012. ‘An Assessment of the Multi-Functionality of
Agroecological Intensification.’ EcoAgriculture Partners: Washington, DC.total # of studies reviewed = 219

14. Farmers Mobilizing for Land Stewardship Jointly
with Production and Market Access

15. Prgrams to Restore Ecosystem Function in Ag Landscapes

16. www.landscapes.ecoagriculture.org

17. 1) Promote Adoption of Known Best Practices

18. 2) Support Initiatives Advancing Multi-Objective
Farms and Landscapes

19. 3) Focus Advanced Science on Multi-
Functional Systems

20. Thank you
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