Book on climate-smart landscapes

The book draws strongly on case studies, methods, tools and considerations for achieving multiple climate, social, development and environmental objectives; especially with regard to tackling the complex challenge of climate change.

Ingrid Öborn (Crop Production Ecology/World Agroforestry Centre) and Mattias Jonsson (Ecology/Centre for Biological control) have participated in writing a book chapter called "Landscape-level constraints and opportunities for sustainable intensification in smallholder systems in the tropics".

Highlights from the chapter:

• A landscape approach can add value to options for sustainable intensification of
  smallholder farming.
• Management practices applied to intensify these systems are often benefitting
  from and utilizing landscape functions and services.
• Landscapes determine the water yield, and its spatial and temporal availability
  thus affecting irrigation and associated farm-level productivity.
• Agriculture is utilizing nutrient flows and stocks in the landscape with the
  sustainability of the practices being site dependent.
• Biological pest control in agriculture is more effective in diversified landscapes.

The book is published by the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF).

More information:

Chapter 12, Landscape-level constraints and opportunities for sustainable intensification in smallholder systems in the tropics

The book Climate-Smart Landscapes: Multifunctionality in Practice

Key messages in the book and other information