Ecoagriculture: Integrated Landscape Management for People, Food, and Nature

Scherr, Sara J.; Buck, L. E.; Willemen, L.; Milder, Jeffrey C.

doi:10.1016/b978-0-444-52512-3.00029-2

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“…The conservation goal is about the maintenance of biodiversity and ecosystem services (Scherr et al, 2014). Relatively high ratings on this goal indicate the effectiveness of ongoing conservation and awareness programmes in this TFCA, by various conservation agents such as the Ezemvelo KwaZulu-Natal Wildlife, the Wildlands Conservation Trust and the Department of Environmental Affairs.…”

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“…The landscape was evaluated on four performance areas or dimensions, namely: agricultural production, biodiversity conservation, livelihoods improvement and institutional coordination. These dimensions form the main goals of ecoagriculture (Buck et al, 2006;Scherr et al, 2014) and in this study they serve as indicators for the state of biodiversity-agriculture integration in the area under investigation. Indicators are useful for assessing the state of natural resource systems, comparing different localities and monitoring changes over time (Sayer et al, 2007).…”

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Analysis of landscape performance assessment by key stakeholders in a transfrontier conservation area

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Stakeholder engagement has become an important aspect of sustainable natural resources management. This study analysed a landscape performance assessment by local and 'external' stakeholders in a transfrontier conservation area in Southern Africa. The landscape was divided into three agro-ecological zones and focus group discussions were facilitated for stakeholders to evaluate the landscape based on four ecoagriculture dimensions (production, conservation, livelihoods and institutions). The conservation dimension showed the best performance and the overall score for the landscape was 2.97, implying a fairly good performance. Perceptions and ratings did not significantly differ by age, gender or stakeholder groups. We conclude that despite their low levels of formal education and training, communal farmers can assess the performance of local landscapes in a consistent way. This study provides information about the degree to which the landscape under focus conformed to the main ecoagriculture goals and can guide development planning and extension service provision.

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Analysis of landscape performance assessment by key stakeholders in a transfrontier conservation area

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“…The approach specifies the need for iterative processes of understanding, negotiation, and decision-making among actors from different sectors (Scherr et al 2013; Sayer et al 2013; see Reed et al 2016 for an extensive review of the literature). The focus on collaborative planning and management corresponds with notions of cross-sectoral forms of environmental governance (e.g., Lemos and Agrawal 2006).…”

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“…A variety of tools have been developed to help facilitate this collaborative planning and partnership development process (Buck et al 2017). Although the exact role and aspirations of a multi-stakeholder platform will vary from place to place, we distinguish between four general aspirational outcomes–aspirations in short (after Scherr et al 2013):Shared long-term goals and action plan: In a platform different stakeholders can share their ideas about the future of the landscape, discuss what are the common interests, address potential areas of conflict, and identify shared long-term goals. When common goals have been defined, they can be translated into a joint medium-term or short-term action-plan for the landscape, outlining practical steps toward the long-term goals.…”

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Participatory Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation of Multi-Stakeholder Platforms in Integrated Landscape Initiatives

Kusters¹,

Buck

Graaf³

et al. 2017

Environmental Management

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Integrated landscape initiatives typically aim to strengthen landscape governance by developing and facilitating multi-stakeholder platforms. These are institutional coordination mechanisms that enable discussions, negotiations, and joint planning between stakeholders from various sectors in a given landscape. Multi-stakeholder platforms tend to involve complex processes with diverse actors, whose objectives and focus may be subjected to periodic re-evaluation, revision or reform. In this article we propose a participatory method to aid planning, monitoring, and evaluation of such platforms, and we report on experiences from piloting the method in Ghana and Indonesia. The method is comprised of three components. The first can be used to look ahead, identifying priorities for future multi-stakeholder collaboration in the landscape. It is based on the identification of four aspirations that are common across multi-stakeholder platforms in integrated landscape initiatives. The second can be used to look inward. It focuses on the processes within an existing multi-stakeholder platform in order to identify areas for possible improvement. The third can be used to look back, identifying the main outcomes of an existing platform and comparing them to the original objectives. The three components can be implemented together or separately. They can be used to inform planning and adaptive management of the platform, as well as to demonstrate performance and inform the design of new interventions.

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“…Its negative effects become increasingly prominent and instead we have been focusing on ecological restoration and landscape construction [6]. Under the traditional ecological viewpoint, the stability of a state can be evaluated by three different stability properties: constancy, persistence, and resilience [7].…”

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Comprehensive Landscape Ecology Stability Assessment of a Coal Gangue Backfill Reclamation Area

Liu¹,

Liu²,

Zhang³

et al. 2016

Pol. J. Environ. Stud.

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Ecoagriculture: Integrated Landscape Management for People, Food, and Nature

Cited by 27 publications

References 45 publications

Analysis of landscape performance assessment by key stakeholders in a transfrontier conservation area

Analysis of landscape performance assessment by key stakeholders in a transfrontier conservation area

Participatory Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation of Multi-Stakeholder Platforms in Integrated Landscape Initiatives

Comprehensive Landscape Ecology Stability Assessment of a Coal Gangue Backfill Reclamation Area

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