Livelihoods and landscapes strategies are plans to deliver human and environmental needs in large areas of land. They have a special emphasis on improving livelihoods through the sustainable use of forests. Each strategy is different, but they all combine technical, local and organisational knowledge, and aim to be environmentally friendly, financially sustainable and socially equitable. In achieving these multiple aims, decisions for different uses in different parts of a landscape often result in trade-offs that are negotiated between multiple stakeholders.
Livelihoods and Landscape Strategy (LLS)
The value of biodiversity
This edition of the FAO publication "Nature and Faune" is dedicated to investigating the value of biodiversity, including inputs from work and authors connected to IUCN's Livelihoods and Landscapes Strategy. …
20 May 2010 | Downloads - document
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PROFOR-IUCN Poverty-Forest Tool Kit
"An estimated 1.2 billion people rely on forests for some part of their livelihoods. However, the importance of forests is often overlooked in national development processes such as poverty reduction strategies due to inadequate evidence documenting how forests sustain the poor. …
19 May 2010 | Downloads - document
Conservation challenges in Eastern and Southern Africa
A lack of technical know-how and limited funding are some of the problems faced by IUCN and its members in Eastern and Southern Africa, where work is continuing to focus on the region's drylands, forests, inland waterways, coastal and marine environments. Hastings Chikoko, Head of IUCN South Africa and Head of Constituency Support and Communications for Eastern and Southern Africa, has been attending talks in Nairobi which will affect the Convention on Biological Diversity. He says that getting across the message that conservation and development can work alongside each other is key to work in the region.
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15 May 2010 | Audio
The effectiveness of integrated conservation and development interventions in a Central African forest landscape
A recent study in Cameroon has found that participatory modeling is a valuable means of capturing the complexities of achieving conservation at landscape scales and of stimulating innovative solutions to entrenched problems. …
14 May 2010 | Downloads - document
Monitoring and evaluating the Mali Livelihoods and Landscapes Strategy (LLS): meeting of partners
The semi-annual participatory monitoring and evaluation meeting of the Landscape and Livelihoods Strategy (LLS) was held in Boré in Mali from 24th to 27th March, 2010. Its objective was to validate the monitoring and evaluation plan, encourage discussions and sharing of outputs of the programme in 2009, and prepare 2010 plan. … | French
06 May 2010 | News story
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Forest resources and poverty alleviation: a new partnership in Mozambique
IUCN’s Mozambique country office has recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Institute for Promotion of Small and Medium Enterprises (IPEME) to establish and operate a community-managed sandalwood bank in the district of Matutuine-Djabula for processing and trade of wood that will initially be targeted at Maputo-based artisans.
05 May 2010 | News story
A gateway to PES: using payments for ecosystem services for livelihoods and landscapes
The main objective of this work is to provide an introduction and sense of direction (i.e. a “Gateway”) into the complicated world of Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES). It by no means intends to serve as a comprehensive overview of this vast field. It provides one entry point for engaging in PES, and was designed to fit into the broader Livelihoods and Landscapes (LLS) strategy, as developed by IUCN’s Forest Conservation Programme. …
29 Apr 2010 | Downloads - publication
Eco-tourism is becoming a source of income for communities in Madagascar
Tourism activities in the natural parks of Madagascar are increasingly becoming a source of livelihood for communities through income generating activities and creation of employment opportunities. …
29 Apr 2010 | News story
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Productive Landscapes, better lives
Joint initiative launched for poverty reduction in Doi Mae Salong, Thailand …
28 Apr 2010 | News story
Co-management and governance in Vietnam: some reflections
27 Apr 2010 | News story
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