Transcript FAO: Integrated Management of Agricultural Landscapes

Integrated Management of Agricultural
Landscapes
Foday Bojang, Senior Forestry Officer FAO/RAF, Accra
Presentation Format
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 Definition of Integrated landscape Management
 Context – Why Integrated Landscape Mgmt.
 Types of integrated Landscape Management
 Key futures of integrated landscape management
 Challenges of integrated landscape management
 FAOs work in integrated landscape management.
What is integrated Landscape management
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The management of production systems and natural resources in an
area large enough to produce vital ecosystem services and small
enough to be managed by the people using the land and producing
those services. (FAO 2013)
A landscape approach is:
 A large scale - process
 Integrated and Multidisciplinary – natural resources, environment
and livelihood considerations
 Considers human activities and their institutions
 Recognizes multi-stakeholder intervention (communities and
institutions participate in developing solutions)
Integrated Production System
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Crop
production
Bioenergy
Aquaculture
Livestock
Production
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Context – Why Integrated Landscape Mgmt.
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The need to increase agroecological productivity of food systems given:
 fixed agricultural space;
 increasing pressure on Natural Resources – population growth,
Climate Change, unsustainable consumption patterns etc.;
 need for long-term agricultural viability, food security and
environmental protection;
 increasing demand from international and global processes (i.e.
RIO+20) for sustainable development (social, economic
environmental);
 currently, limited consideration of the complex relationship between
agriculture and the environment in land resource management
 Sectorial approaches with limited social, economic and
environmental impacts
 top-down management and governance models
Types of integrated Landscape
Management
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Other Names for integrated landscape approach:
- eco-agriculture/agroecology,
- territorial development,
- watershed management,
- ecosystem approaches
- Coastal zone management
- Sustainable forest management
- Inland water management
- Pastoral/range management
- Drylands mamangement/rehabilitation/restoration
Key futures of integrated landscape
management
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 Ecosystem approach – biophysical, social, economic
environment etc.;
 Advisory (extension, technical assistance) services;
 Varying scales of Initiatives e.g. watersheds, lake basins
or community territories (26-100km2), and interventions
at large scale e.g river basins >10,000km2).
 addresses
natural
resources
/
environmental
management and production quality and quantity.
 addresses multi-stakeholder participation, equity; gender
and food security.
 Rwanda’s Forest landscape Restoration Initiative
Challenges of integrated landscape management
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 population pressure; climate change; market forces;
 Governance;
 Conflict over access to resources;
 Ensuring wider adoption of ILM at landscape scale;
 Buy-in by policy and decision makers;
 Adequate and sustained communication strategy;
 Compliance with the norms by the various actors;
Examples of FAO’s work in integrated landscape
management.
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 Great Green Wall for the Sahara and the Sahel
Initiative;
 The global Conservation and Sustainable use of
Globally Important Agriculture Heritage Systems
(GIAHS) initiative;
 Watershed and river basin management – e.g. the
integrated management of the Fouta Djallon massif;
 Climate Smart Agriculture Initiative;
 Kagera Transboundary Agro-Ecosystem Management
Project;
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Thank You