2014 Inter-Parliamentary Regional Hearing on Exemplary Forest Policies in Africa

Nairobi, Kenya30 September – 3 October 2014

Integrated Management of Agricultural Landscapes

Foday Bojang, Senior Forestry Officer FAO/RAF, Accra

This presentation is largely based on work by Sally Bunning, Senior Land/Soils officer, FAO Land and Water Division

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.

Presentation Format

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)

What is integrated Landscape management

Integrated Production System

Crop productio

n

Livestock Production

Aquaculture

Bioenergy

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

Context – Why Integrated Landscape Mgmt.

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

Types of integrated Landscape Management

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

Key futures of integrated landscape management

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;

Challenges of integrated landscape management

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;

Examples of FAO’s work in integrated landscape management.

Thank You