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Landscape Governance

Varied crops in a valley

Mexico Launches Unique Declaration Promoting Leadership by Landscape Partnerships and Local Governments to Fight Climate Change, Blunt Biodiversity Loss and Benefit Communities

Climate Action to Recover Mexico’s Natural Heritage: promoting regenerative management actions and solutions.

Mountain Range, biodiverse agricultural land and Forests

EcoAgriculture Partners Once Again Brings Strong Presence to UN Climate Convention

Global leaders and experts meet at the UN climate convention’s COP27 to discuss how to accelerate global climate action through reducing emissions, expanding adaptation efforts and mobilizing finance.

Aerial view of lush farmland in Banten, Indonesia with vibrant greenery and water

Solving Global Sustainability Challenges Requires Policy Support for Landscape Partnerships

Landscape partnerships need policy support and can advance policy goals, landscape-scale biodiversity, conservation and sustainable development.

Farmers discuss solutions to sustainable landscape management in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

Build better carbon markets to tackle climate change. A conversation with leading scientist and EcoAg Board Member Ruth Defries

An article published in the journal Science asserts that voluntary carbon markets, trading in credits to counterbalance climate change-inducing carbon dioxide, fail to maximize the greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions they could offset.

11 October 2022

By EcoAgriculture Partners

landscape with crops and windbreakers

Transforming the Future of Food Systems: Experts Explore How Landscape Partnerships and Territorial Approaches Can Drive Agroecological Change

World leaders at COP United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, looked at how to drive agroecological change.

5 August 2022

By EcoAgriculture Partners

A bee on a flower in an orchard

Landscape Partnerships Provide Powerful Tools To Help Countries Attain Sustainable Development Goals, Expert Panel Says

To address the world’s crises on climate, biodiversity and livelihoods, nations and international organizations are launching major policy initiatives and landscape partnerships.

Greenhouse in Sierra Gorda

A Landscape By Any Other Name

ILM: Different Names, Same Goals: Landscape restoration, Agricultural landscape mosaic, Agroecology, Biodiverse agricultural landscape, Climate-smart agricultural landscape

4 January 2022

By Sara Scherr

Mountain Range, biodiverse agricultural land and Forests

Developing Technologies Can Revolutionize Sustainable Landscape Management

There is a need for sustainable landscape development technology to align with real-world needs, to be practical and context-specific.

Cabbages and other crops on a hilly landscape near a village

Healthy Farms, Healthy Wildlife–A New Era for Partnership?

Science has shown that farming can be more productive and resilient in the long term when ecosystems are healthy. People working in agriculture are also seeing the value in healthy wildlife populations.

A bee on a flower in an orchard

New Publication: A landscape planning framework: Collaborating across the landscape to mitigate impacts of development (CALM)

Fauna and Flora International (FFI) and the Arcus Foundation have just released a new and exciting landscape planning framework

10 June 2021

By Louise Buck

Zebras grazing in Tanzania

Participant Follow-up from the African Landscapes Dialogue 2019 

African Landscapes Dialogue 2019 was filled with knowledge sharing, discussion, and networking, providing participants with ideas and inspiration when returning to their home countries.

An example of agroforestry

Using Integrated Landscape Management to scale Agroforestry: Examples from Ecuador

Sara Scherr and Louise Buck on the ability of Integrated Landscape Management to scale Agroforestry through the strategy ofmobilizing collaborative efforts among multi-sector stakeholders.

7 September 2020

By Louise Buck