2.5. Getting started
Two main activities will help you get started in engaging stakeholders to assess the performance of their landscape. One involves scoring their landscape. The other involves employing a variety of other communication and social learning tools that will elicit stakeholders’ visions and ideas about how they would like their landscape to perform. Scoring landscape performance [...]
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Guidelines for using the Institutional Performance Scorecard
The Institutional Performance Scorecard is designed to aid leaders of a landscape measures initiative in assessing the potential of the institutional environment to foster an integrative approach to landscape planning and management. The institutional scoring tool is based on the premise that how the institutional environment for planning and management performs will be an important [...]
Conservation of biodiversity and ecosystem services in the cacao production landscape of southern Bahia, Brazil
G. Schroth*, M. Araujo, D. Faria, L. Bede * corresponding author e-mail: g.schroth@conservation.org Click here to upload the pdf version of this article Introduction In southern Bahia, the main cacao production region of Brazil, natural forest has been reduced to a mere 5%; yet, recent botanical surveys in the region found some of the highest [...]
Landscape Level Planning
The summary below of landscape level planning (LLP) is excerpted and edited from a paper that was produced in 2007 by Forest Trends’ Business and Biodiversity Offsets Program (BBOP). The parent document discusses LLM as a tool for designing biodiversity off-sets by companies that have a significant impact on biodiversity. LLP is part of a [...]
Guidelines for Using the Landscape Performance Scorecard
The Landscape Performance Scorecard (LPS) is designed to help you keep track of the status of your landscape. The scorecard is based on the ‘twenty questions for assessing landscape performance’. A data capture form provides a means for analyzing data from the scoring exercise and presenting the information that is generated. The performance scores highlight [...]
Ground-Based Photomonitoring of Ecological Change (repeat photography)
Jim Lassoie Cornell University Click here for article upon which this abstract is based Barring abrupt natural or anthropogenic disasters, ecological changes in terrestrial landscapes proceed at paces not readily detected by humans. Conservation agencies and organizations have used repeat historical photography to help understand such changes occurring under varying land-uses, to set realistic goals [...]
Additional Resources for Stakeholder Engagement
CIFOR and its collaborators lead the way in the development of participatory tools for engaging stakeholders. Through their long-term expertise and experience, they have developed a website of Tools for Integrating Conservation and Development. In addition, organizations such as the IUCN and WWF have been applying the integrated conservation and development approach developed by CIFOR [...]
Gallery Test
On November 30, 2006 the first New York Small Farm Summit was convened by Cornell’s Small Farms Program to further identify and clarify key opportunities to enhance the viability of small farms in our state. Over eighty participants gathered at four sites; a Central NY group in Ithaca, Tompkins County; Eastern NY in Voorheesville, Albany [...]
Landscape level livelihood implications of agroecologically sound farming practices: System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in Wayanad, Kerala
C. K.Vishnudas, Research officer, RASTA, Wayanad, Kerala, rasta_k@satyam.net.in Click here to download pdf version of this file What is SRI ? The System of Rice Intensification (also known as Madagascar method) was developed in Madagascar island by the farmers and NGOs under the leadership of a local priest. The concept of System of Rice Intensification [...]
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