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Recent Updates
- VII Wallace Conference at CATIE website now live
- Greening Agricultural Development in Mbeya Workshop
- EcoAgriculture Partners Helps Launch Sustainable Land Management Project in Eastern and Southern Africa
- Agroforestry farms offset biodiversity loss in Costa Rica
- EcoAgriculture Partners evaluates agricultural carbon projects in Africa
- EcoAgriculture Partners studies feasibility of African Agricultural Carbon Facility
Publications
- WFP Promotes Resilience in Chronic Food Insecure Areas of Ethiopia
- Mbeya Spatial Planning Workshop Overview
- Building Community Assets and Capacities for Adaptive Management: Responding to the challenges of climate change--the World Food Program's evolving approach to relieving hunger and promoting food security
- Proceedings of the ecoagriculture lessons learning conference held on 26 to 28 August 2008 at the lake Naivasha Sopa resort lodge, Kenya
- Memorias Liderazgo
- Biodiversity-friendly aquaculture on the Veta la Palma Estate, Spain: Ecoagriculture Snapshots 14
The Landscapes and Leaders Program encourages and documents the on-the-ground practice of ecoagriculture. The program encompasses all of EcoAgriculture Partners’ work within communities and landscapes to support, advise and train current and prospective ecoagriculture professionals and community-based leaders, and to help implement ecoagriculture initiatives in the field.
The program is based on EcoAgriculture Partner’s Landscape Measures (LM) approach, a framework and set of tools for supporting multi-stakeholder groups that are practicing integrated landscape management. Among other features, the LM approach provides a system for generating, sharing, and applying knowledge that is needed to support sustainable development of multi-functional landscapes in the 21st century.
To test and refine this approach, evaluate its effectiveness, and credibly demonstrate its value to practitioners, donors and policy-makers in multiple sectors, EcoAgriculture Partners, with help from associate organizations, is amassing a large catalog of knowledge about landscapes that are implementing these tools.
Community Knowledge Service (CKS)
Coordinator: Raffaela Kozar (rkozar@ecoagriculture.org)
EcoAgriculture Partners is working in partnership with the UNDP’s Equator Initiative and a number of community-based leaders and partners to design and implement an international ‘Community Knowledge Service’. The goal of the CKS is to enable community leaders to strengthen and scale-up their work to enhance livelihoods while sustaining and conserving biodiversity. The CKS focuses on bottom-up processes that facilitate the sharing of knowledge and expertise, and the adaptation and application of new knowledge to strengthen community management practices.
Ecoagriculture Leadership Development
Coordinator: Louise Buck (lbuck@ecoagriculture.org)
Ecoagriculture Leadership Courses aim to support ecoagriculture leaders from diverse sectors to more effectively implement ecoagriculture initiatives in their own work and in collaboration with others. EcoAgriculture Partners and the University of California-Berkeley's Center for Sustainable Resource Development (CSRD) are currently working with partners based in Mesoamerica and East Africa to develop and test the courses. Each course is nationally and/or regionally focused, with course materials and modules tailored to address geographically-specific ecoagriculture challenges and opportunities.
Learning Landscapes in East Africa and Mesoamerica
Coordinator: Raffaela Kozar (rkozar@ecoagriculture.org)
EcoAgriculture Partners is supporting local stakeholders in a number of regions considered to be ecoagriculture ‘hotspots’ – landscapes where conserving biodiversity, sustaining productivity and enhancing rural livelihoods are all regarded as high priorities. Within each of these ecoagriculture landscape activities are underway to support and strengthen cross-sectoral partnerships, knowledge exchange, and collaborative learning among stakeholders working within and making impacts on the landscape. Activities draw upon and inter-link elements of all three of EcoAgriculture’s programs: Understanding Ecoagriculture, Linking and Learning Among Innovators, and Promoting Policies and Markets that Support Ecoagriculture.
Ecoagriculture Outreach
Coordinator: Lisa Swann (lswann@ecoagriculture.org)
EcoAgriculture Partners' outreach activities aim to make ecoagriculture resources and information broadly accessible to ecoagriculture innovators, and to raise awareness of ecoagriculture among diverse target audiences, including policymakers, investors, and the general public. Information services currently include our website, the EcoAgriculture Newsletter, EcoAgriculture PES Newsletter and a growing web-based compilation of ecoagriculture resource materials and case summaries.
