food security and sustainable resource use: comments
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Presentation by Sara Scherr (President, EcoAgriculture Partners) at the May 15, 2013 event "Natural Resource Management and Food Security for a Growing Population". For more information visit: http://www.wri.org/event/2013/05/natural-resource-management-and-food-security-growing-populationTRANSCRIPT
Food Security and Sustainable Resource Use: Comments Sara J. Scherr, President, EcoAgriculture Partners Natural Resource Management and Food Security for a Growing Population World Resources Institute, Washington, DC – May 15, 2013
Securing Food Supply in the 21st Century: Beyond Field-Scale Productivity
More than Food: Societal Demands from Agricultural Landscapes
Beyond Resource Use Efficiency: Negotiating Whole Landscape System Efficiency
Whole Landscapes for Food, Fiber, Energy, Health, Water,Livelihoods,Biodiversity,Ecosystem,Climate
Integrated Landscapes: Key Features 1) Agreed management objectives encompass multiple landscape benefits
2) Collaborative, community-engaged processes are in place for dialogue, planning, negotiating and monitoring decisions
3) Production practices contribute to multiple objectives at farm and landscape scales
4) Interactions among different parts of the landscape realize positive socio- ecological synergies or mitigate negative trade-offs
5) Market, tenure and policy frameworks are shaped to achieve the diverse set of landscape objectives
Landscape Transformation in Ethiopia ● Operating as MERET since 2002, 400,000
has degraded land rehabiliated in 451 sub-watersheds, 125,000 direct beneficiaries, 40% female
● Menu of 48 activities in AE/E and Livelihoods and Local Level Participatory Planning Approach (LLPPA)
● Impacts in Tigray: ● Investment in re-vegetation, terracing,
community and farm-scale water harvesting restored water (ground, farm, streams)
● Irrigation & improved soil organic matter increased crop production 200-400%
● Dependence on food aid during droughts reduced from 90 to 10% households
● Transformation within 5-10 years ● Climate mitigation at landscape scale
● Institutionalization of approach in Ethiopia
Landscape Transformation in Ecuador ● Community Consortium of River
Jubones Watershed--socio-ecological interactions for food & water security
● Since 2000; now 37 municipal govts ● ‘Territorial facilitators’ for action
Income diversification Increased farm production, using
agro-ecological methods New markets incl. eco-markets Improved well-being of women,
children Protection of water sources
through community-based water users associations
Restoration of riparian habitat Coordinated legal and policy action
An Explosion of Innovation on the Ground
Ongoing Integrated Landscape Initiatives
Latin America & Caribbean Sub-Saharan Africa
# Integrated Landscape Initiatives Identified
104 87
# Countries Represented 21 33
Most Common Motivations for Stakeholder Collaboration
Biodiversity Conservation, Reducing Natural Resource
Degradation
Biodiversity and Natural Resource Conservation
Average # Stakeholders Involved in Initiative (primary stakeholders)
11 (farmers, local government,
NGOs)
9+ (local/district government,
NGOs, producer groups)
Core Investment Domains Institutional planning & coordination, Agricultural
production, Conservation & Livelihoods
Institutional planning & coordination; Conservation;
Agricultural production
Milder, et al. Unpublished Data
Leaders Overcoming Institutional Silos and Fragmentation of Effort
Agroecological Practices that Generate Both Higher Yields and Ecosystem Services Ecosystem Service
Conservation Agriculture
Holistic Grazing
Organic Agriculture
Precision Agriculture
System of Rice Intensification
Number of studies that indicate positive, neutral or negative outcomes for select system & service combinations.
+ = - + = - + = - + = - + = -
Pest Control
1 2 4 7 6
Soil Fertility & Structure
14 2 4 4 3 3 55 8 1 1 12 2 1
Nutrient Cycling
6 1 2 2 1 1 23 39 5 12 2
Wild Biodiversity
3 11 23 1 2
Erosion Control
10 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
H20 qual. & quant.
16 2 2 1 1 9 52 2
Garbach, et al. 2012. ‘An Assessment of the Multi-Functionality of Agroecological Intensification.’ EcoAgriculture Partners: Washington, DC. total # of studies reviewed = 219
Farmers Mobilizing for Land Stewardship Jointly with Production and Market Access
Prgrams to Restore Ecosystem Function in Ag Landscapes
www.landscapes.ecoagriculture.org
1) Promote Adoption of Known Best Practices
2) Support Initiatives Advancing Multi-Objective Farms and Landscapes
3) Focus Advanced Science on Multi-Functional Systems
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