This is a five-year collaborative programme that aims to understand how landscape approaches can resolve competing land-use challenges to reconcile social, environmental and biodiversity goals. Over the longer term, this also aims to potentially help reduce carbon emissions, promote sustainable use of biodiversity, and alleviate poverty. It has been implemented in three tropical landscapes in Ghana, Indonesia and Zambia. We are trying to understand how integrated landscape approaches can help to sustainably manage competing land-uses and reconcile social, economic and biodiversity goals. The idea is to bring together multiple stakeholders to identify land-use synergies and balance trade-offs across scales and sectorial boundaries. My work focussed on the assessment and monitoring of biodiversity in these three countries.
The programme is a part of the International Climate Initiative (IKI) and it is funded by the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB) through CIFOR and its partners.