1000 Landscapes For 1 Billion People

The October installation of The Landscape Ledger is live! We've got the latest news and resources in the world of landscape finance, with a special focus on the CBD #COP16, which closes out this week in Cali, Colombia. Among the highlights is the launch of a new report, 'Towards Financing Large-scale Restoration in Latin America and the Caribbean,' which advocates for blended investment strategies for #landscapes tailored to Latin America's regional challenges and considers the need to manage water resources efficiently, prevent deforestation, and protect biodiversity. Co-authored by partners at Commonland, EcoAgriculture Partners, Climate-KIC, Rainforest Alliance, World Resources Institute's 20x20 Initiative, and more, the report spotlights key recommendations that can inspire action among policymakers to achieve large-scale restoration throughout the region. You won't want to miss this exciting edition! #landscapeledger #landscapefinance #newsletter #COP16 #COP16Cali

Every year, 12 million hectares of land become unproductive due to #desertification and drought, threatening the livelihoods of more than 1 billion people across 100 countries. Without urgent action, 50 million people are set to be displaced by 2030. Next week, 1000L and our partners from Commonland and UNDP will join governments, businesses, and civil society in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to champion landscape approaches at this year's UNCCD COP16. This year’s theme is “Our Land. Our Future,” is a call to action to propel innovative land management solutions that safeguard land and water resources, support local livelihoods, and preserve biodiversity into the limelight. #Landscape partnerships and Integrated Landscape Management (#ILM) can be powerful drivers of meaningful change when implemented in unison. Join us for a powerful series of side events over the course of the next two weeks, kicking off with the following: Land Restoration: Addressing Land Degradation Neutrality and Scaling up Successes Through Leadership, Action and Finance 📅 4 December 🕚 18:20-19:05 📍 Blue Zone, Action Dome Cooperation Is Green Infrastructure: A Whole-of-Society Response to Combat Desertification and Long-Term Drought 📅 5 December 🕚 15:30-17:00 📍 MET-8 Blue Zone Drought Resilience Through an Integrated Landscape Restoration Approach 📅 6 December 🕚 14:30-16:00 📍 Blue Zone Hope Springs: Landscape Management Boosts Drylands Community Development and Ecosystem Restoration 📅 7 December 🕚 12:00-13:00 📍 Pavilion 4, Green Zone Get the full list of 1000L and partner events here: https://lnkd.in/eNm48YKu Are you attending UNCCD COP 16 and Interested in connecting with our team in Riyadh? Contact Tom Miewald (tmiewald@ecoagriculture.org) and Michael Keller (Mkeller@ecoagriculture.org) for more information. #UNCCDCOP16 #Desertification #LandDay #LandscapeApproaches #Landscapeleadership #1000LatUNCCD

Over 20 Mata Atlántica Model Forest leaders met last Friday for their first sustainable, inclusive and participatory governance workshop. 🙌 Together, they discussed their landscape's strengths, opportunities, weaknesses and threats and took steps to engage with territories around participatory, integrated and inclusive socio-environmental governance. 💪 Landscape leaders from the Mata Atlántica Model Forest participate in our Forest Leaders for Integrated Landscape Management Program. Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) made this program possible. We also want to thank the International Model Forest Network and Red Latinoamericana de Bosques Modelo for this collaboration. 👫 👫 👫 ◾ ◾ ◾ El último viernes, más de 20 actores de la subcuenca del río Taquaraçu, del Bosque Modelo Mata Atlántica, se reunieron en lo que fue el primer Taller de Gobernanza Sostenible, Inclusiva y Participativa. Juntos visibilizaron y discutieron sobre las fortalezas, oportunidades, debilidades y amenazas de su paisaje y están dando pasos para la integración de territorios en torno a una gobernanza participativa, integrada y socioambiental inclusiva.

This week, we're honored to join over 100 landscape leaders across Kenya at the Kenya Landscapes Actors Platform (KenLAP) Platform (KenLap) 2024 Conference as a key partner in showcasing Kenya's landscape restoration initiatives, policies, and strategies! 🌱 The conference theme, "Collaborative Innovation and Knowledge Sharing to Restore and Sustain Kenya's Landscape," set the stage for an inspiring exchange of ideas and solutions. Representing the Rainforest Alliance and drawing experiences from our landscape and certification work are: 🗣️ Marion Nduta, Rainforest Alliance Kenya & Tanzania Country Director 🗣️ Diida Karayu Wario, Team Manager of the Mount Kenya Sustainable Landscape and Livelihoods Program 🗣️ The Mount Kenya Sustainable Landscape Management Board 💡 A key takeaway from our discussions is the need for policies that support farming and forest communities to implement locally-led, nature-based solutions. By placing people and nature at the center of climate action, we can reduce emissions and sequester carbon while delivering meaningful benefits to communities. Many thanks to the partners who have made this collaborative effort possible, including The Rockefeller Foundation, WWF, 1000 Landscapes For 1 Billion People, WRI Africa, EcoAgriculture Partners, Kijabe Environment Volunteers (KENVO), CGIAR, CIFOR-ICRAF, and World Agroforestry. Together, we’re committed to scaling impactful, sustainable landscape management practices across Kenya. 🤝 #RainforestAlliance #Kenya #MountKenya #LandscapeManagement #ThrivingLandscapes #Sustainability #Certification #NatureBasedSolutions #ClimateAction #PeopleAndNature

More from day 3 of the Kenya Landscapes Actors Platform (KenLAP) conference in Nairobi! It was such a pleasure to share our work with conference participants and explore all of the ways we can collaborate for more #sustainable landscapes across #Kenya! A special thanks to Amaya Webster from Tech Matters for joining Tom Miewald and Patricia Bon for the session!

The inaugural Kenya Landscapes Actors Platform (KenLAP) conference is in full swing in Nairobi, and our 1000L team is at the heart of the action! Together with representatives from Rainforest Alliance, SNV, Tech Matters, and more, we'll tackle challenges and source solutions to Kenya's most pressing food, water, land use, and biodiversity issues. If you're at the conference and curious about our tools and resources to support landscape leaders, stop by our booth! You also won't want to miss our session on landscape finance tomorrow, 6 November, from 8:30-9:30 local time. Learn more about KenLAP and the conference program here: https://lnkd.in/ds9VVwmY #ThinkLandscape #KenLAP2024 #Collaboration #Learning #Resources #Events #Conference

Last call for our final #COP16 event, starting in less than an hour in the Netherlands Pavilion! Join us for the launch of our new joint publication, Towards Financing Large-scale Holistic Landscape Restoration in Latin America and the Caribbean. This publication introduces #landscapefinance as a practical framework for redirecting funding flows to achieve large-scale and long-term restoration impacts. Hear from experts from across the finance, policy, and restoration spectrum, including: - Alberto Menghini, Head of Cooperation Colombia (European Union) - Victoria Gutierrez, PhD, Head of Global Policy (Commonland) - Sandra Valenzuela de Narvaez, CEO (WWF Colombia) - René Z, Senior Manager Restoration Policy & Forest Economist (World Resources Institute) and Director (Initiative 20x20) - Juan C. Ramos, Senior Manager for Finance and Policy (EcoAgriculture Partners), - Harko Koster, Global Lead Climate & Food Systems (SNV Netherlands Development Organisation) - Mamadou Diakite Moussa Diakhité, Acting Head of Environmental Sustainability Division (ESD) Manager of the AFR100 Secretariat African Union Development Agency-NEPAD - Caroline Van Leenders, Senior Process Manager for SustainableTransitions (Netherlands Enterprise Agency ) - Ivo Walsmit, Thematic Expert Biodiversity (Netherlands Ministry for Foreign Affairs) Moderated by Vanessa Coronado Mena, Chief of party: The Business Case for Collective Landscape Action (Rainforest Alliance)

Powerful insights from our partners SNV at last week's #COP16 sessions on finance for landscapes. We still have one more week in Cali, with several exciting events aimed at transformative, scalable #finance solutions for safeguarding #biodiversity. Keep an eye on this page for the latest updates and developments! Are you at #COP16? Connect with our team by reaching out to Juan C. Ramos at jramos@ecoagriculture.org! #Thinklandscape #landscapefinance #COP16Cali #Financingbiodiversity

#COP16Cali event countdown! Agroecology offers a valuable opportunity that we must embrace now. This event will highlight the wide-ranging benefits that agroecological farming systems can bring, including conserving water, soil, and biodiversity, mitigating and adapting to climate change, and boosting socioeconomic resilience. Additionally, this session will raise awareness of how agroecological practices—such as soil and water conservation, intercropping, crop rotation, and diversification—reduce reliance on pesticides while maintaining crop yields, ensuring farm productivity, and preserving profitability. 24 October - 16:30 local time 📍Dutch Pavilion, Cali, Colombia. Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT Agroecology Coalition Biovision Foundation Pesticide Action Network UK

Dispatch from #COP16 Cali! EcoAgriculture Partners' senior manager of finance and policy, Juan C. Ramos, presented our finance innovations work at the #COP16Cali event, Operationalizing Landscape Approaches to Ensure We Are on Track With the Biodiversity Plan. There, speakers from the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), IUCN, CDP, WBCSD – World Business Council for Sustainable Development, High Ambition Coalition for Nature and People, and others explored how landscape approaches can be incorporated into national biodiversity planning and showcase initiatives that support integrated, 'whole of society' solutions. The robust conversation unearthed several key takeaways: 🌿 Landscape approaches help to achieve all the goals of the GBF - particularly target 3. Indigenous people’s and local communities’ engagement is key. The research coordinated by IPSI and IPBES has sustained this over time. 💵 🤝 Finance and the private sector need to be engaged intentionally and thoughtfully. The emerging work from CDP on reporting related to landscape initiative and the comments from Unilever connected to the Action Agenda on Regenerative Landscapes show us some pathways to engage. 🏞 There’s so much work ongoing to operationalize landscape approaches and fund them. The diversity of approaches from The International Partnership for the Satoyama Initiative (IPSI), IUCN, HAC for P&N, NBSAP Accelerator and 1000 Landscapes shows this. The strong support from the Japanese government and their biodiversity fund has helped sustain this. 💪🏾 🌐 There's still work to be done to unite more closely as a community of governments and organizations and mobilize this work at the required scale. #COP16Cali #landscapeapproaches #ThinkLandscape #Biodiversity #FinanceforBiodiversity