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)
Restoring forests to improve livelihoods - four years of success and influence
IUCN's Livelihoods and Landscape Strategy is changing the lives of poor communities around the world by restoring forest services, improving livelihoods and creating means of income. Jamie Gordon of IUCN's Forest Conservation Programme describes a few of those success stories. …
31 Jan 2010 | Audio
2 Comments | Write a comment
A paradise in peril
New Guinea is recognised globally for its extraordinary biodiversity, including almost all of the world’s Birds of Paradise. Papua, the Indonesian half of the island, still has 70% forest cover, yet its Baliem Valley, which supports one of the highest rural population densities in Papua, is under threat from logging and development. …
31 Jan 2010 | Video
REDD payments as incentive for reducing forest loss
"Strategies for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) could become an important part of a new agreement for climate change mitigation under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. …
15 Dec 2009 | Downloads - document
Fabulous forests
The people who live closest to forests are the ones that need to be able to benefit from them, if we are to be successful in conserving them. That was the message from James Gordon, of IUCN’s Forest Conservation Programme, who told Wild Talk about the work IUCN is doing through its Livelihoods and Landscapes Strategy. Moving from Latin America, to Africa, then Asia, he explained the kind of experiences and lessons IUCN has learnt from each continent. …
14 Apr 2009 | Audio
Power to the people
There is increasing understanding about the links between conservation and poverty reduction-how the livelihoods of millions of the rural poor depend on healthy ecosystems. The challenge is putting this understanding into practice, involving local people in decisions about, and management of the natural resources on which they depend. Gonzalo Oviedo explains some of the issues and what's needed to address them. …
09 Oct 2008 | Video
