Focus Area 2 Restoring value to Grasslands

Ottawa 15-17 October 2013

Liz WedderburnAlexandre IckowiczIlse Kohler-RollefsonBarry BoubakaryBen Henderson

FOCUS AREA OBJECTIVE

o Primary objective:“To maintain and restore both environmental and economic value to grasslands, while preserving their social and cultural functions globally”.

Restoring value of grasslands, how?

o Grow our global understanding and identify shared views

o Design transition pathways to the future

o Create a global learning and innovation environment built from on the ground experiences that will inform both local and global action, especially through comparative analysis

o Integrate production, environment, economic, social and cultural well being, and collective action in grassland system assessment

FA2 Conceptual Framework : Restoring value to grassland Multiscale and participative approach

What are the valuesof Grasslands for

stakeholders?- Economics- Ecological- Social / Cultural

How to assess the valuesof Grasslands?

- Methods?- Who?

Role of Grasslands in

local development?- Diagnosis- Indicators

Improving value of Grasslands through innovation

- Policy practice and strategy- Technical practice- Local stakeholder practice

Consult and Network Analyse and Inform

Guide and Pilot

Tangible outputs

o Global lessons related to monitoring and managing progress towards sustainable grassland systems

o Identification of practices that will enable desired change

o Evidence based messages about the value

of grasslands for use in dialogue

Progress to date Consult and Network

Collection, collation and sharing of existing data, info & experienceso Set up a WEB portal that is currently being used

as an inventory of information on grassland values. We plan to expand it’s functionality and build a workspace within the portal.

o Initiated a stock take of government/sector policies related to grassland management

Progress to date Consult and Network

o Building networks while participating in a series of Grassland related meetings and conferences:

• 4th Conference SAADC in China (July 2013)

• European Association for Animal Production meeting held in Nantes (August 2013) "LFS innovations for local/rural development“

• 22nd International Grasslands Congress in Sydney (Sept 2013)

• APESS workshop in Cameroon (Nov 2013)

Progress to date Analyze and Inform

o Proposal for NAMA-based initiative has been drafted & with workshop planned for early 2014

o Global soil C sequestration assessment for grasslands completed (ID global hot spots)

o Develop, evaluate and compare affordable MRV (measurement, reporting and verification) methods• Sustainable grazing management C accounting

methodology

o Comparative analysis of mental models 15 grassland sites throughout the world

o Develop/adopt accounting mechanisms/indictors to value grasslands

DRP PPZS

Pilot sites

Diversity, context

Progress to date Pilot sites

Development of an inventory of global pilot sites to:o Undertake a global comparative description  o Describe the different values and measures for

grassland held by stakeholders.

o Describe the contribution of livestock farming to sustainable development

 o Develop tools and processes for multi

stakeholders to assess and explore impacts of multiple drivers on future grassland systems

Progress to date Pilot Sites

Identify new pilot projects:o Fill in the gaps of the current configuration of

pilot sites to provide diversity of approaches  o Provide evidence and example of how grassland

values can be restored and enhanced in practice

o Test innovation and practice change

This Meeting

o Building on progress:• What priorities from pilot sites to inform

Global lessons e.g. testing innovation; topics for synthesis

• How to build on collaborative initiatives

• Additionality from participation in GAA, what is it and how do we capture it?

• Where are the quick wins?

• Preparation of next FA2 meeting

Thank You