Integrated Landscape Management

In both the developed and developing worlds it is now widely recognized that integrated landscape management approaches are among the best options for sustaining valuable ecosystems while improving human welfare. Agroforestry and collaborative forest management almost always feature in landscape management approaches to biodiversity conservation and watershed management, especially in the developing world. Making the most of agroforestry and other tree-based systems requires, however, good information about the various ecosystem service values of various systems and practices, the inevitable tradeoffs among those services, and the incentives that farmers have to invest in agroforestry systems, to protect other tree-based systems, and to engage in tree product enterprises.

ICRAF research focuses on:

• The application of management principles
• Development and refinement of analytical tools
• Quantification of empirical relationships in key case study sites
• Engagement in the practical search for workable approaches to harmonizing farmer, community and societal priorities