At Global Soil Week, Sara Scherr, president of EcoAgriculture Partners, delivered this address on the value of landscape approaches for implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals. In order to universally achieve the SDGs, we will need a model of natural resource management that allows us to balance all the competing demands on our natural resources.

1. LANDSCAPE APPROACHES TO
ACHIEVE THE SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT GOALS,
SUSTAINABLY
Sara J. Scherr
President, EcoAgriculture Partners
Global Soil Week Keynote
April 21, 2015

2. THE SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT GOALS
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All SDGs will require Natural
Resources to achieve.
Photo by Neil Palmer/CIAT

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THE SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT GOALS
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• SDG 1 (end poverty)
• SDG 2 (end hunger)
• SDG 6 (water/sanitation)
• SDG 7 (sustainable energy)
• SDG 11 (resilient, sustainable cities)
• SDG 14 (sustainable use of the oceans)
• SDG 15 (sustainable use of terrestrial
ecosystems)

4. 17 GOALS, ONE “SOIL-UTION”
Integrated Landscape
Management
Multi-objective,
multi-stakeholder
resource governance
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5. INTEGRATED LANDSCAPE MANAGEMENT
Managing land for people, food, and nature
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7. INTEGRATED LANDSCAPE INITIATIVES (ILIs)
Africa Latin America Asia
Landscape
Initiatives surveyed
87 104 174
Most reported
motivations
Reduce degradation, sustainable land management,
conserve biodiversity
Average # of
objectives
8 7 6
Average # of
stakeholder groups
9 11 11
Most common
participants
Local & state govts, farmer associations.
Local NGOS
Least common
participants
Private sector
Most frequent
outcomes
Coordination between stakeholders improved,
capacity for ILM improved
Continental
Reviews of
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8. ILM
Tigray,
Ethiopia
8
On the ground
Photos by Raffaela Kozar

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TRANSFORM
LANDSCAPE GOVERNANCE

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TRANSFORM
MARKETS & FINANCE

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WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR
DEVELOPING SDG STRATEGIES?

12. ONE MAP INITIATIVE
INDONESIA
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Photo by Uray Endang Kusumjaya

13. A GLOBAL COLLABORATION
to create and sustain integrated
agricultural landscapes worldwide.
Plus more than 60 strategic partners!
peoplefoodandnature.org

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