How to Invest in Integrated Landscape Management to Achieve the SDGs

  • Date: 14 July 2015, 3:30pm - 6:00pm
  • Location: Intercontinental Meeting 3

Organised by

Landscapes for People, Food and Nature Initiative, EcoAgriculture Partners, Millennium Institute, Biovision Foundation, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)

Summary

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will provide a comprehensive framework for action on a variety of objectives related to sustainable land use. However, the number of Goals raises the specter of increasing competition for financial resources, conflicts among Goals, capacity constraints, and potential over-exploitation of natural resources and ecosystems that underpin many of the Goals.  Integrated Landscape Management (ILM) – an approach in which a group of stakeholders in a given landscape collaborate to achieve landscape scale outcomes that are critical for each of the individual stakeholders – offers a promising means of implementation of the SDGs. These kinds of landscape partnerships are on the rise, and a growing number of public and private funds are now seeking to invest in integrated landscapes. The tools and strategies evolving for ILM explicitly focus on realizing synergies among different landscape objectives, and identifying and managing trade-offs, in the context of democratic and inclusive governance. This side event will focus on:
· why integrated landscapes are an effective means of implementation of the SDGs,
· how public and private investments can be designed and coordinated in landscapes in support of SDG
· how governments can support integrated landscape investment.

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