Tag Archives: Ecosystem Services

It’s Complicated: Landscape Diversity for Pest Control

Posted on May 6, 2013 by Rachel Friedman

By Wei Zhang, Research Fellow, and Mark Rosegrant, Director, Environment and Production Technology Division, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington DC On the Landscapes Blog we’ve seen how diversity on the farm level to diversity at the scale of … Continue reading →

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Bringing Business Onboard

Posted on April 26, 2013 by Rachel Friedman

For the past few weeks, business has been the topic of focus on the Landscapes Blog. Centered around the Landscapes Initiative’s launch of Reducing Risk: Landscape Approaches to Sustainable Sourcing, the Blog has highlighted examples demonstrating a business case for … Continue reading →

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Payment for Watershed Services: A Win-Win Strategy for Climate Change and Development?

Posted on March 22, 2013 by Rachel Friedman

Happy World Water Day! Celebrating the 20th anniversary, the day is observed annually to focus attention on sustainable management of freshwater resources. Agriculture is also a critical piece of the puzzle, both relying heavily on rainfall or irrigation for production … Continue reading →

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Diversified Farming Systems for Ecosystem Services

Posted on February 25, 2013 by Rachel Friedman

One of the primary objectives in landscape approaches to management is the protection of multiple ecosystem services. Last week researchers from the World Agroforestry Centre provided lessons on how adopting a landscape scale can improve incentives to manage land for … Continue reading →

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Project-Level Insights for Landscape Level PES

Posted on February 18, 2013 by Rachel Friedman

Landscapes can provide a range of natural benefits, from clean water to carbon sequestration, but often people don’t have the right incentives to manage their lands to maintain these services. Gabrielle Kissinger (Lexeme Consulting) and Henry Neufeldt (World Agroforestry Centre) … Continue reading →

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World Wide Wetlands: Making the Case for Landscape Management

Posted on February 6, 2013 by Matt Zonis

World Wetlands Day was celebrated around the world this past Saturday. Started in 1997, the day is meant to both commemorate the February 2nd 1971 signing of the Ramsar Convention – an international treaty for the conservation and sustainable utilization … Continue reading →

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State of Watershed Payments

Posted on January 29, 2013 by Rachel Friedman

“Water, like its flow through the physical landscape, touches almost every sector of society and aspect of human life.” – State of Watershed Payments 2012 Last week the Landscapes Blog highlighted some work at the World Resources Institute on promoting … Continue reading →

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Building ‘Green Infrastructure’ in a Watershed

Posted on January 18, 2013 by Rachel Friedman

Natural ecosystems provide the many essential services people depend on, such as clean drinking water, protection from floods and droughts, and habitat for fisheries. Wednesday’s blog post focused on the importance of ecosystem services in Africa, while a recent post from Landscape … Continue reading →

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An African Account of Ecosystem Service Provision

Posted on January 16, 2013 by Rachel Friedman

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 Landscapes Blog post on sparing land for … Continue reading →

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Resilience and the Cultural Landscape

Posted on January 9, 2013 by Rachel Friedman

Understanding and Managing Change in Human-Shaped Environments This year’s first Exploring the Evidence blog post helps bring us back to the emerging literature on landscape approaches, and grounds the concept in cases in practice. Dr. Tobias Plieninger (Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences … Continue reading →

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