The Landscapes for People, Food and Nature

The Initiative will achieve its goals through three inter-related components. A Global Review is building the evidence base for integrated agricultural landscape management assessing potential contributions to address key development challenges; synthesizing lessons from field experience for practitioners, businesses and policymakers; and improving the scientific basis for action. Multi-Stakeholder Dialogues are bringing together innovators engaged in applying and promoting integrated landscape approaches. The dialogues serve to interpret the results of the Global Review and craft action agendas for policy, investment, capacity building and research. The first major dialogue took place in Nairobi in March 2012 with nearly 150 landscape innovators and champions from around the world. An Action and Advocacy component will implement these agendas through 2014 and beyond at the landscape, national and international levels. The Initiative's collaborators in action and advocacy include farmers' organizations, private sector companies, leading international NGOs, multilateral agencies and philanthropic organizations. In addition to these three overarching components, each of the specific 6 outcomes delineated in the Initiative's Action and Advocacy Strategy have more specific plans for completion.