Water, Land and Ecosystems - 1.1 Landscape Restoration

Collective Land Restoration through Agricultural Intensification in Makueni County, Kenya

nilu.rajapakse@gmail.com — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 06:57:03 +0000

Restoring Degraded Landscapes (RDL) is positioned to influence global restoration agendas such as 20x20 in Latin America, AFR100 in Africa, and Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) to ensure sustainable and equitable outcomes. These restoration efforts will, at least partially, be financed by private investors. For example, the LDN Fund is designed as an impact investment fund, currently managed by MIROVA a global asset management firm. WLE's theory of change impact pathways show that the CRP must provide scientific backstopping in the areas of: 1) baselining and exante modeling, 2) cheap and effective monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems, and 3) governance and institutions that are socially equitable. This framework (P420) outlines how RDL can provide these services and engage with privately financed land restoration projects which is largely an unfamiliar area for CRP's.

Contact Person

Nijbroek, Ravic and Quintero, Marcela <m.quintero@cgiar.org>

Donors

CGIAR

Partners

CIAT (Alliance) Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT Regional Hub (Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical)

Completed

Start/End dateJanuary 01, 2017 — December 01, 2018

Research ThemeRestoring Degraded Landscapes

Cluster

1.1 Landscape Restoration

Countries

Kenya

Advancing global and regional networking and partnerships for positioning better our messages around land restoration in agricultural landscapes and influence investments and policy actions

Amanda — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 10:45:00 +0000

While global awareness of land degradation is high, awareness of the benefits of integrated landscape approaches and cost-effective strategies to achieve it is not. Our assumption is that dialogue around research results can influence opinions, policies and strategies. RDL will engage in national and global dialogues making stakeholder differences transparent to facilitate agencies to identify and manage trade-offs and synergies in landscapes. In 2020 it includes engagement with African team involved in UNFCC negotiations, in order to inform with science-based inputs their reports and discussions. In 2021, we will strengthen our contributions to regional and sub regional forums. We will also be considering engagements at national level which have bearing on global contributions e.g. country contributions to UNFCCC, national level mapping e.g. for Ethiopia to support reporting to global levels.

Contact Person

Quintero, Marcela <m.quintero@cgiar.org>

Lead Center

International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)

Donors

CGIAR

Partners

CIAT (Alliance) - Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT - Regional Hub (Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical)

Completed

Start/End dateJanuary 01, 2017 — December 31, 2021

Research ThemeRestoring Degraded Landscapes

Cluster

1.1 Landscape Restoration

Regions

Global

Countries

Colombia, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Peru, Tanzania

Stakeholder platform management in Ghana and Tanzania

Amanda — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 10:41:00 +0000

CIAT seeks to engage through multi-stakeholder platforms whose composition will include scientists, NGOs, CBOs, agricultural experts, private sector representatives and farmers’ associations and policy makers at national and sub-national levels. This will create opportunities for stakeholders to express needs and current knowledge gaps, and better inform the development and adoption of locally appropriate land restoration technologies. Through these platforms the generated knowledge will be exchanged with platform members, who use it to implement policy engagement actions.

Contact Person

Mwongera, Caroline <c.mwongera@cgiar.org>

Lead Center

International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)

Donors

CGIAR

Partners

ASWG - Agriculture Sector Working Group , CIAT (Alliance) - Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT - Regional Hub (Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical), Ministry of Agriculture Livestock and Fisheries (United Republic of Tanzania), TCSAA - Tanzania Climate Smart Agriculture Alliance

Completed

Start/End dateJanuary 01, 2017 — December 31, 2021

Research ThemeRestoring Degraded Landscapes

Cluster

1.1 Landscape Restoration

Countries

Ghana, Tanzania

Assessment and use of agricultural biodiversity for landscape and ecosystem restoration

Amanda — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 09:30:00 +0000

Intra-specific diversity of crops is one of the principle mechanisms used by small holder farmers in low input agricultural landscapes to maintain and restore resilience and production in agricultural landscapes. Deliberate use of intra specific crop diversity in farmers field can be a productive alternative to agrochemicals. Assessment to the amount and distribution of functional intra-specific diversity for annual and perennial crops in agricultural landscapes is needed to be able to improve access to diversity and information on this diversity to restore and maintain resilience and productivity in agricultural landscapes. Benefits to farmer or farming communities from their use of local diversity, are necessary to identify the different ways of using genetic diversity within production systems to restore and maintain agricultural landscapes. The work focuses on (I) the use perennial horticultural crops to rehabilitate saline and water scarce environments, (ii) the role crop and pasture genetic diversity on farm to buffer and rehabilitate lands under unpredictable environmental change, (iii) the role of on farm crop genetic diversity to restore ecosystem services to regulate pest and diseases.

Contact Person

De Santis, Paola <p.desantis@cgiar.org>

Donors

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Government of Italy

CGIAR

Partners

Bioversity (Alliance) - Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT - Headquarter (Bioversity International), CAAS - Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, CATAS - Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, CENESTA - Center for Sustainable Development and Environment, EBI - Ethiopian Biodiversity Institute, FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Government of Iran, IAV - Institut Agronomique et Vétérinaire Hassan II, IER - Institut d’Economie Rurale (Mali), IFAD - International Fund for Agricultural Development, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, INRAN - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique du Niger, Kunming Institute of Botany, LI-BIRD - Local Initiatives for Biodiversity, Research and Development, Ministry of Agriculture (Sri Lanka), Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources (Uzbekistan), MOE - Ministry of Environment (Sri Lanka), MUC - Minzu University of China, NARC - Nepal Agricultural Research Council, NARO - National Agricultural Research Organisation (Uganda), NCARE - National Center for Agricultural Research and Extension, PAR - Platform for Agrobiodiversity Research, Royal Government of Bhutan, TSAU - Tashkent State Agrarian University, UN Environment - United Nations Environment Programme, WSU - Washington State University

Completed

Start/End dateJanuary 01, 2017 — December 31, 2021

Research ThemeRestoring Degraded Landscapes

Cluster

1.1 Landscape Restoration

Regions

Global

Countries

Bhutan, Burundi, China, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Iran, Jordan, Mexico, Morocco, Uganda, Uzbekistan

Topics:

Ecosystem services

Seed systems for land restoration and improved food security

Amanda — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 09:19:00 +0000

This project will enhance access to a diverse portfolio of crops and crops' varieties that are more suitable to address farmers needs, particularly to meet restoration as well as food security needs. Access to seeds, and therefore functioning and efficient seed systems, both formal and informal, is essential to ensure delivery of appropriate locally adapted seeds for restoration, food security or nutrition.

Contact Person

Otieno, Gloria <g.otieno@cgiar.org>

Donors

Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation (SDC)

CGIAR

Partners

Bioversity (Alliance) - Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT - Headquarter (Bioversity International), PROINPA - Fundación para la Promoción e Investigación de Productos Andinos, TSAU - Tashkent State Agrarian University

Completed

Start/End dateJanuary 01, 2017 — December 31, 2021

Research ThemeRestoring Degraded Landscapes

Cluster

1.1 Landscape Restoration

Regions

Central Asia

Countries

Bolivia, Uzbekistan

Using biodiversity, including genetic diversity, for land restoration

Amanda — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 09:07:00 +0000

This is a new program which builds on previous work Bioversity did in WLE, particularly in Ethiopia as part of the Nile region flagship. It aims at identifying practices and uses of genetic diversity and biodiversityfor multiple benefits, including restoration, food security and nutrition. A number of tools will be used to identify those species in Tanzania and Ethiopia. The program will address land restoration using an integrated approach and, together with partners, will identify options that can provide multiple benefits to local communities. the program recognizes that often poverty is the ultimate cause of degradation and if this is not addressed and recognized it will problematic to have options adopted unless they are linked to income generation and livelihood improvement. In this respect the program will look at livelihood as an integral part of the program activities. Overall the program will aim at enhance food and nutrition security, soil quality by promoting CSA, and livelihood.

Contact Person

Fadda, Carlo <c.fadda@cgiar.org>

Donors

David and Lucile Packard Foundation

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) / German Society for International Cooperation

CGIAR

Partners

ARARI - Amhara Regional Agricultural Research Institute, Bioversity (Alliance) - Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT - Headquarter (Bioversity International), CIFOR - Center for International Forestry Research, EBI - Ethiopian Biodiversity Institute, EIAR - Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research, ILRI - International Livestock Research Institute, Mekelle University, UN Environment - United Nations Environment Programme, VPO - Vice President's Office (United Republic of Tanzania)

Completed

Start/End dateJanuary 01, 2017 — December 31, 2021

Research ThemeRestoring Degraded Landscapes

Cluster

1.1 Landscape Restoration

Regions

Eastern Africa

Countries

Ethiopia, Tanzania

Topics:

Land