Dear Dr Bossio, thanks for your comments. It expands the discussion to the need for integrated landscape approaches for meeting multiple objectives: food, water and energy security, climate adaptation and mitigation, biodiversity conservation and sustainable land management. These are all interconnected problems that demand integrated landscape based solutions. An integrated landscape approach considers people as central elements of the landscape and employs a spatial method to the management of land, water and vegetation within a particular geographical area. It combines measures to support sustainable intensification on the most fertile land with landscape restoration and soil and water conservation on degraded lands. It also aims to restore a balance of environmental, social, and economic benefits from the use of land, water, forests and trees within a broader pattern of land and water use. Lastly, a landscape approach is not a one-off intervention; it monitors impact, broader changes, and take into account lessons learned.
Implementing a landscape approach requires radical changes in the way we manage natural resources. In many cases policies are still set by different government agencies with little regard for impacts on other sectors. There is an urgent need to break this segregation and explore solutions within the context of entire physical and institutional landscapes. There is a need for multi-agency platform for planning and attracting investment for sustainable landscapes. Second, valuation of ecosystem services is useful for integrated landscape management. E fforts by the World Bank and other partners through the Wealth Accounting and Valuation of Ecosystem Services(WAVES Program https://www.wavespartnership.org/waves/) provides strong evidence that considering the values of services such as carbon sequestration, air and water purification, and nutrient cycling can lead to better land-use decisions. Third, c ountries must increasingly look to private capital for natural resources management. But private investment in turn requires the governments to create enabling conditions through investing in public goods: productivity enhancing research and technologies, and rural infrastructure, as well as improved tenure systems, land use plans and user rights.
Dear Dr Bossio, thanks for your comments. It expands the discussion to the need for integrated landscape approaches for meeting multiple objectives: food, water and energy security, climate adaptation and mitigation, biodiversity conservation and sustainable land management. These are all interconnected problems that demand integrated landscape based solutions. An integrated landscape approach considers people as central elements of the landscape and employs a spatial method to the management of land, water and vegetation within a particular geographical area. It combines measures to support sustainable intensification on the most fertile land with landscape restoration and soil and water conservation on degraded lands. It also aims to restore a balance of environmental, social, and economic benefits from the use of land, water, forests and trees within a broader pattern of land and water use. Lastly, a landscape approach is not a one-off intervention; it monitors impact, broader changes, and take into account lessons learned.
Implementing a landscape approach requires radical changes in the way we manage natural resources. In many cases policies are still set by different government agencies with little regard for impacts on other sectors. There is an urgent need to break this segregation and explore solutions within the context of entire physical and institutional landscapes. There is a need for multi-agency platform for planning and attracting investment for sustainable landscapes. Second, valuation of ecosystem services is useful for integrated landscape management. E fforts by the World Bank and other partners through the Wealth Accounting and Valuation of Ecosystem Services(WAVES Program https://www.wavespartnership.org/waves/) provides strong evidence that considering the values of services such as carbon sequestration, air and water purification, and nutrient cycling can lead to better land-use decisions. Third, c ountries must increasingly look to private capital for natural resources management. But private investment in turn requires the governments to create enabling conditions through investing in public goods: productivity enhancing research and technologies, and rural infrastructure, as well as improved tenure systems, land use plans and user rights.