19 September 2013
ICRAF Assessment of African Landscape Initiatives Highlights Regional Lessons
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The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) and EcoAgriculture Partners have released the first continental review of the impacts of some 87 integrated landscape initiatives on food production, conservation and rural livelihoods across 33 countries in sub-Saharan Africa.

Sixty-four per cent of the initiatives studied occurred in drylands.

World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)19 September 2013: The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) and EcoAgriculture Partners have released the first continental review of the impacts of some 87 integrated landscape initiatives on food production, conservation and rural livelihoods across 33 countries in sub-Saharan Africa.

The report, developed by scientists from the two organizations, notes that these initiatives are occurring across a mosaic landscape of agricultural lands, forested lands, grasslands and urban areas and that the activities have a range of motivations. Sixty-four per cent of the initiatives studied occurred in drylands. The report documents greater success based on higher stakeholder engagement across the diverse objectives, with successes including community-based conservation areas and land rehabilitation, as well as institutional and human capacity building.

Elements of the report will be shared at a side event during the eleventh Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD COP 11) on 20 September 2013. ICRAF is a member of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). [Publication: Integrated Landscape Initiatives for African Agriculture, Development and Conservation: A Region-Wide Assessment] [ICRAF Press Release] [EcoAgriculture Partners Press Release]


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