Presentation on Tree Diversity Day, 11 October 2012, at the 11th CBD Conference of Parties in Hyderabad, India

1. The landscape approach:
Ten principles to apply at the nexus of
agriculture, conservation and other competing
land-uses
Terry Sunderland
Tree Diversity Day
CBD COP, Hyderabad, India
11th October 2012

2. Shooting in the dark..?
• Large body of literature on “landscape approaches” and
“ecosystem approaches” but little consensus on applicability
• General principles and guidelines have been largely missing
• However, need to avoid “one size fits all” approach
• Complex landscapes; complex challenges

3. Core challenge: different sites, different issues

4. New approaches
• Since
2008,
CIFOR
and
mul5ple
partners
working
on
defining
and
refining
broad
“landscape
approaches”
building
on
previous
ini5a5ves
• How?
Review
of
published
literature,
mul5ple
workshops
for
consensus
building,
conferences/side
events,
e.g.
Diversitas,
IUFRO,
CBD
Bonn,
Nagoya
• Validated
by
survey
of
field
prac55oners
• Based
on
this
on-­‐going
work,
SBSTTA
commissioned
a
report
on
“sustainable
use
of
biodiversity
at
the
landscape
scale”
(see
hSp://www.cbd.int/doc/mee5ngs/sbsSa/sbsSa-­‐15/official/
sbsSa-­‐15-­‐13-­‐en.pdf)

5. So, what is new?
• The
landscape
approach
has
been
re-­‐defined
to
include
societal
concerns
related
to
conserva5on
and
development
trade-­‐offs
and
nego5ate
for
them
• Increased
integra5on
of
poverty
allevia5on
goals
• Increased
integra5on
of
agricultural
produc5on
and
food
security
• Emphasis
is
on
adap5ve
management,
stakeholder
involvement
and
mul5ple
objec5ves

6. The “Ten Commandments”...?

7. Ten principles for a landscape approach
• Con5nual
learning
and
adap5ve
management
• Common
concern
entry
point
• Mul5ple
scales
• Mul5-­‐func5onality
• Mul5-­‐stakeholder
• Nego5ated
and
transparent
change
• Clarifica5on
of
rights
and
principles
• Par5cipatory
and
user-­‐friendly
monitoring
• Resilience
• Strengthened
stakeholder
capacity

8. What impact?
• Recommenda5on
XV/6
"sustainable
use"
from
SBSTTA
XV
(includes
work
on
bushmeat)
• Tabled
for
adop5on
at
this
COP
by
par5es
• Sayer
et
al:
The
landscape
approach:
ten
principles
to
apply
at
the
nexus
of
agriculture,
conserva5on
and
other
compe5ng
land
uses
[in
press]
Proceedings
of
the
Na2onal
Academy
of
Science

9. Thanks!
THINKING beyond the canopy