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Louise Buck EcoAgriculture Partners World Conservation Congress, Sept 2012

Landscapes for People, Food and Nature Initiative: Making the case for ecosystems in food security. Louise Buck EcoAgriculture Partners World Conservation Congress, Sept 2012. Integrated agricultural landscapes: a strategy for achieving: . Food security for all

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Louise Buck EcoAgriculture Partners World Conservation Congress, Sept 2012

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  1. Landscapes for People, Food and Nature Initiative: Making the case for ecosystems in food security Louise Buck EcoAgriculture Partners World Conservation Congress, Sept 2012

  2. Integrated agricultural landscapes: a strategy for achieving: • Food security for all • Sustainable, climate-resilient, diversified food production for 9+ billion • Reduction of rural poverty • Sustainable biomass fuel, forest, fisheries production • Conservation and restoration of wild biodiversity • Protection of critical watershed functions • Terrestrial climate mitigation

  3. Integrated agricultural landscapes: Food, livelihoods, mitigation, resilience, ecosystems

  4. Integrated landscape approaches are developing rapidly in diverse forms (but efforts fragmented) • Integrated watershed management • Landscape restoration • Territorial development • Model forests • Agricultural development corridors • Multi-functional landscapes Uganda USA Kenya • Biological corridors • Eco-regional development • Socio-ecological landscapes • Terroire • Biological corridors • + 65 Others….

  5. Components: Global Review Multi-Stakeholder Dialogues Action and Advocacy + Collaborators: Int’l Advisory Committee, 22 landscape networks & initiatives www.ecoagriculture.org or www.landscapes.ecoagriculture.org

  6. Action and Advocacy: Strategic Outcomes 1) Multi-Stakeholder Landscape Initiatives Strengthened 2) Policies Support Integrated Landscape Initiatives 3) Business Leaders Incorporate Integrated Landscape Approaches in their Business Models 4) Financing is Expanded for Integrated Landscape Investment 5) Science and Knowledge Systems Support Integrated Landscape Initiatives 6) Key Stakeholders Aware of the Benefits of Integrated Landscapes

  7. Influencing policy platforms to integrate ecosystem management and food security UN Zero Hunger Challenge • Secretary-General’s new policy initiative to reach 100% access to adequate food all year round and zero stunted children under 2 years of age • The Landscapes for People, Food and Nature Initiative will engage with Food Security and Agriculture policymakers at Committee on World Food Security in October 2012 in Rome Our question today: What messages should advocates of integrated agricultural landscape management send to policy makers?

  8. www.landscapes.ecoagriculture.org Louise Buck lbuck@ecoagriculture.org

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