From: From climate-smart agriculture to climate-smart landscapes
1) Landscape interventions are designed to achieve multiple objectives, including human well-being, food and fiber production, climate change mitigation, and conservation of biodiversity and ecosystem services | |
2) Ecological, social and economic interactions among different parts of the landscape are managed to seek positive synergies among interests and actors or reduce negative trade offs | |
3) The key role of local communities and households as both producers and land stewards is acknowledged | |
4) A long-term perspective is taken for sustainable development, adapting strategies as need to address dynamic social and economic changes | |
5) Participatory processes of social learning and multi-stakeholder negotiation are institutionalized, including efforts to involve all parts of the community and ensure that the livelihoods of the most vulnerable people and groups are protected or enhanced [20] |