Spatial data needs to make rural landscapes work for all

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1. Spatial data needs to make rural landscapes work for all
 ! Louise (Wieteke) Willemen Department of Natural Resources, ITC UTwente ! With examples from: ❖ Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University ❖ EcoAgriculture Partners, Washington DC ❖ Landscapes for People Food and Nature Initiative
2. Making landscapes work for all by mainstreaming spatial information on multiple landscape benefits into decision-making ! ! Research themes: 1. Make landscape benefits visible 2. Quantify the effectiveness of landscape measures 3. Improve the consistency and transparency of mapping methods 2 1. Process knowledge & methods 2. Evidence to guide governance 3. Communication 2. Evidence to guide governance
3. Rockstrom et al UN, 2012 > 9 billion Why landscapes? • High pressure on land resources ➢Impact on human food security, health and conflicts • Landscapes: areas continuously shaped by humans and nature (social- ecological systems) • Landscape view: to capture and manage dynamics, synergies, and trade-offs among multiple stakeholder interests and land units
4. Landscapes to sustain human well-being
 
 Food production Timber production Raw materials Climate regulation Water regulation Habitat provisioning Fuel wood Recreation Cultural heritage Provisioning Supporting/regulating Cultural Well-being MA 2003, TEEB 2010, CICES 2012 Ecosystem Services (ES): benefits from (human-modified) ecosystems to people ! Landscapes: The Where Ecosystem Services: The What
5. Managing ES for food production & livelihoods People ES flow Agriculture ES flow Financial mechanisms ES flow ! Land and governance interventions (restoration, farming practices, access, markets) Investments for improved benefit flows in agricultural landscapes Landscape Well-functioning ecosystems, nutritious food, generating income, benefit sharing
6. Effective landscape measures • Growing interest in landscape approaches to agricultural systems (adaptive, sustainable sourcing) • Change trajectory: costly, uncertain future outcome for Agriculture and Food
7. Effective measures: spatial research 1. Empirical impact assessment for interventions to improve benefit flows in agricultural landscapes • Monetary and non-monetary costs & benefits (ES, $, t) • Investment evaluation (restoration, market, field practice) 2. Monitoring for evidence and adaptive management ! ✓ Informative indicators (EO, spatially explicit data) ✓ Reliable time series data ✓ Quantified relational models ✓ Sites with implemented interventions (impact assessment) ✓ Sites with tb implemented interventions (monitoring)
8. Science to support rural landscapes
 • Science- land management pathways • Accurate spatial and temporal methods and data • Linking research approaches & actors; challenging reality • Joint research program? Who decides? Standards? • Support effective landscape interventions • Prescriptive guidelines for landscape management • Reduce risks, optimize costs for enabling organizations (legal, markets, finance) • Better deal with the dual role of agriculture research and management approaches that cross boundaries Thank you.