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Noting that a third of all food production is dependant on animal pollinators, he said that pollinators are under various threats. He explained that pollinators affect seed and fruit yields and quality, noted that pollination systems are linked to biodiversity, and called for academic investment in the taxonomy of pollinators and training of taxonomists.
He listed challenges faced, including: lack of awareness of pollinator conservation, inadequate legislation and law enforcement; and insufficient knowledge on managing pollinators.
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Roger Leakey, James Cook University, presented on domesticating tree crops and marketing novel crops for ecoagriculture. He explained the process of domestication and mentioned some of its objectives, including to: support the livelihood of farmers in relation to the MDGs; improve environmental, social and economical outputs; and diversify farming systems. He said the challenge was defining the role of agroforestry in biodiversity conservation and providing livelihoods while decreasing environmental degradation.
Lee de Haan, The Land Institute, addressed the development of perennial grains for ecoagricultural systems. He described the disadvantages of annual crops and said perennial grain breeding programmes provide a better alternative.
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He listed the obstacles to perennial grain breeding, including the time it requires and the opposition from annual grain stakeholders. Enhancing biodiversity in agricultural land use systems: Edmund Barrow, IUCN, explained how pastoralism makes the best use of natural resources in space and time, manages risk associated with drylands, enhances resilience, and is compatible with wildlife. He warned against ill-informed myths about pastoralism, including that it is archaic, disruptive, results in land degradation, and makes little contribution to the national economy.
Jan Sendzimir, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, presented on the potentials of polyculture and on steering disturbances to promote diversity and resilience. Hans Herren, International Centre for Integrated Pest Ecology, presented on how agricultural pest management can enhance ecosystem sustainability.
Herren described how the extension of traditional resource management as well as adaptive management systems can achieve ecosystem sustainability enhancement and address the MDGs. He said the current challenge is increasing productivity and ensuring food security and safety while conserving wild biodiversity. He explained that integrated crop and pest management apply technologies and expertise in ways that suit local conditions in order to optimize agricultural production and enhance nature conservation and livelihoods. The purpose of the Theme Group was to assess lessons learned from managing landscapes to achieve productive and profitable farms within land-use mosaics that achieve biodiversity and ecosystem service objectives.
Participants discussed ecosystem design principles for agricultural landscapes; institutions that enable collaboration and coordination among farmers, conservationists and land-use planners; methods for monitoring and conducting impact assessments at a landscape scale; and implications for land-use policy. Integrated management at a landscape scale: Tom Tomich, ICRAF, outlined the role of ecosystem services in landscape mosaics in tropical forest margins.
He highlighted one of the main challenges as identifying innovative policies, institutions and technologies that can reduce poverty without decreasing environmental services.
In outlining a future vision for landscape mosaics, he underscored the need for: diverse landscapes with increased wild species; tenure reform; access to resources and improved livelihoods; and education and awareness. He outlined a ten-step management approach including: undertaking landscape appraisals; addressing natural resource flows; characterizing land-use systems and landscape mosaics; addressing trade-offs; analyzing existing land-use patterns from a stakeholder perspective; and negotiating solutions, including monitoring and compliance measures.
David Molden, International Water Management Institute, addressed the management of biodiversity in irrigated landscapes. He stressed the importance of: ensuring water productivity, including growing more food with less water; using low-cost technologies to improve water productivity; maintaining habitat integrity; promoting community awareness; and ensuring environmental flows. Among the challenges, he identified the need to manage multiple water uses and balance irrigation requirements with environmental needs. Practice and implementation: Howard-Yana Shapiro addressed lessons learned in implementing ecoagriculture in the cocoa sector.
He identified four key elements of functional biodiversity: diversity of vegetation; permanence of various crops; intensity of management; and the extent of isolation from natural vegetation. The challenges he identified included: maintaining and promoting biodiversity-friendly traditional agroforestry practices against growing pressure to intensify production; preventing farmers from using improved incomes to convert more land to forests; and creating a conservation ethic and compensating farmers for not killing wild species.
Mohamed Said, International Livestock Research Institute, addressed the role of pastoralists as ecoagriculture managers. He identified the linkages between biodiversity, ecosystem process, and ecosystem goods and services, and outlined research findings on the coexistence between people and livestock in East Africa. The challenges he identified included linking ecological field studies and regional and continental scale studies to develop an appropriate policy framework, and developing policies to reverse negative trends and enhance existing synergies between people and livestock.
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Monitoring and impact evaluation: Tim Reed, TNC, addressed measures to manage ecoagriculture and biodiversity at the landscape level with a focus on audits undertaken by TNC on its agricultural projects. He said the audits aimed to measure project impact, effectiveness and efficiency. Among the results of the audits, he highlighted the benefits of working directly with farmers, noted that farmers require incentives to provoke and maintain changes, and stressed that projects demonstrating the value of new techniques can lead to policy changes.
Aaron Dushku, Winrock International, highlighted innovative tools for the quantification of ecoagriculture, focusing on the use of multicriteria analyses, statistical sampling techniques for project measurement and monitoring, and the spatial characteristics of the landscape for habitat assessments. Following the presentations, participants broke into subgroups to address: designing and managing agricultural landscapes for production and conservation; institutions for ecoagriculture planning and coordination at the landscape scale; and methods and strategies for monitoring ecoagriculture at a landscape scale.
The purpose of the Theme Group was to assess livelihood and financial incentives for farmers, other land managers and investors in order to develop and invest in ecoagriculture systems. Participants examined evidence of livelihood benefits and economic profitability of existing ecoagriculture systems relative to mainstream agricultural systems. They also explored institutional changes in agribusiness and the food industry; payments for ecosystem services that could shift incentives in favor of ecoagriculture; and the implications for economic, business and rural development policies.
Following the presentations, participants broke into subgroups to address: measuring and monitoring progress towards ecoagriculture; incentives for ecoagriculture-innovations in product markets; and incentives for developing markets for ecosystem services. The purpose of the Theme Group was to focus on community-level actions across ecosystems and farming systems needed to develop, implement, manage and scale-up successful ecoagriculture initiatives. Participants examined barriers and obstacles to community development and ecoagriculture strategies for achieving community action at a meaningful scale; and the implications for community capacity-building, investment and policy.
Discussions also drew on the outcomes of the two-day Community Shamba preparatory meeting held from September. Participants heard presentations from Farhad Mazhar, Policy Research for Development Alternatives Bangladesh , and Peryapatan Satheesh, Deccan Development Society India , that demonstrated community understanding of ecoagriculture, highlighting peer-to-peer learning initiatives and possibilities offered by ecoagriculture initiatives for communities.
The presentations highlighted key areas where strategic partnerships between communities and researchers, policymakers, and community-led business initiatives are required.
Erick Fernandez, World Bank, and Walter Lusigi, GEF, outlined the challenges in creating policy and institutional frameworks to support community-led ecoagriculture. The presentations addressed problems relating to land degradation, drylands, unsustainable resource exploitation as well as social, policy and institutional challenges that hinder investment in land and ecosystem restoration.
During the discussions participants examined the values and principles of community engagement in ecoagriculture, including capacity development needs and the types of interventions required to support local level action. On Tuesday evening, 28 September, the Equator Initiative hosted a Community Celebration to explore how ecoagriculture provides innovative solutions to conserve biodiversity while helping eradicate poverty and enhance social and cultural objectives, with participants sharing experiences from a number of countries, including Honduras, India, Kenya, Mongolia, the Philippines and Senegal.
Following the presentations, this Group continued discussions on mobilizing community ecoagriculture. On Wednesday, 29 September, participants went on field trips to 11 ecoagriculture sites in Kenya. The objectives of the field trips were for participants to determine what elements of the projects or sites could be scaled-up and how the success stories could be made to work at the landscape level for improved livelihoods and conservation practice. The sites visited included: bamboo cultivation in Thika; organic agriculture around Nairobi; using insects to improve human livelihoods in eastern Kenya; conservation and pastoralism in Kajiado; enhancing agricultural productivity on the forest margins of Kakamega; watershed restoration in Katut Kodyo, Lake Victoria; commercial tea plantations in highland watersheds, Kericho, Western Kenya; community-driven conservation for endemic bird conservation and improved livelihoods in the Kinangop Plateau and the Aberdare Forest; the restoration of disused quarries into thriving habitats in Bamburi; organic coffee and macadamia nut in Thika; and reducing the human-wildlife conflict and improving agriculture at Mount Kenya.
Theme Group 1: Understanding Ecoagriculture: The recommendations from this Theme Group highlighted that knowledge is the basis for more equitable decision making and negotiation at all levels, and that an improved knowledge base that integrates the different aspects of ecoagriculture is required. The Group identified the purpose of such an initiative as providing information to managers and resource users to assist in reducing negative and enhancing positive interactions between wild biodiversity, agricultural production systems, and agrobiodiversity.
The specific goals for this recommendation include: obtaining information on the benefits of wild biodiversity for agricultural production and the trade-offs with other goals of ecoagriculture; identifying the benefits of agricultural systems and agrobiodiversity for wild biodiversity; and analyzing the trade-offs for policy makers, managers, and resource users.
The Group also recommended undertaking an analysis of case studies on ecoagriculture, with the purpose of making a scientifically credible case for the benefits of ecoagriculture. No Downloads. Views Total views. Actions Shares. Embeds 0 No embeds. No notes for slide. Ecoagriculture 1. BY Sajid Sarwar Moo6 2. Eco-Agriculture Eco friendly agriculture describes landscapes that support both agricultural production and biodiversity conservation, working in harmony together to improve the livelihoods of rural communities.
Approach and Practitioners The term "eco-agriculture" was coined by Charles Walters, economist, author, editor in Eco-agriculture applies an integrated ecosystem approach to agricultural landscapes to address all three pillars 1. Conserving biodiversity, 2. Enhancing agricultural production, 3. Improving livelihoods 5. Motivation of Farmers and Communities Who Engage in Ecoagriculture 1 Reduce production costs, raise or stabilize yields, improve quality 2 Conserve biodiversity critical to their own livelihoods 3 Earn payments for ecosystem services 4 Comply with env.
A landscape is a cluster of local ecosystems with a particular Landscape scale of topography, vegetation, land use, and settlement. Developing and Managing an EcoAgriculture Landscape Challenges