Tag Archives: Multifunctional Landscapes

Taking Care of Business: Landscape Approaches to Reduce Risk

Posted on May 1, 2013 by Rachel Friedman

From beer brewing in Bogota to mochas in Mexico, for the past few weeks the Landscapes Blog has covered the role of landscape approaches in business operations and supply chains, in light of the Landscapes Initiative’s release of Reducing Risk: … Continue reading →

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Melting Pots of Biodiversity: Native and Introduced Plants in Tropical Smallholder Farming Landscapes

Posted on April 3, 2013 by Rachel Friedman

By Christian Kull, Associate Professor at Monash University, Australia For the past week the Landscapes Blog has taken a closer look at trees and forests in the context of agricultural landscapes. While there is often an emphasis on native vegetation … Continue reading →

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The Multifunctional Landscapes Roadshow

Posted on March 25, 2013 by Rachel Friedman

By David King, Head of International Relations at the French Agricultural Society (SAF) As last week concluded with both a day to celebrate forests and another to celebrate water, it is clear that landscape approaches within agricultural systems can provide … Continue reading →

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Finding Solutions From the Land

Posted on March 13, 2013 by Rachel Friedman

“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 sustainable way … 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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Forests and Food: Thoughts on Our Fear of Working Together

Posted on February 1, 2013 by Blog Editor

Last week the Yale chapter of the International Society of Tropical Foresters webcast its annual conference, this year focused on Food and Forests: Cultivating Resilient Landscapes. This series of presentations and panel discussions provided a captivating window into the world of forestry … Continue reading →

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Another Look at REDD with a Landscape Lens

Posted on January 23, 2013 by Rachel Friedman

As noted yesterday on the Landscapes Blog, this week marks the first meeting of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). Though biodiversity is the focal point, there is a host of other benefits from nature that are … 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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Landscape’s the Word at Forest Day 6

Posted on December 3, 2012 by Rachel Friedman

Yesterday may have been the 6th Forest Day at the UNFCCC COP18, but the buzzword of the day was ‘Landscape.’ Peter Holmgren, Director General of the Center on International Forestry Research (CIFOR), extolled the past six years of Forest Days … Continue reading →

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