Toolkit

Towards developing a “landscape planning and management tool”

Author: International Center for Tropical Agriculture

Published year: 2017

Category: Knowledge references

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Abstract:

Land degradation in general and soil erosion in particular is a serious threat to landscapes compromising their overall health. For planning and targeting, spatially distributed information about the magnitude of the problem and its drivers are necessary.

Erosion is a complex processes governed by diverse drivers which operate at different scales and interact at different levels, making its predication difficult. Due to scarcity of data, accurate estimation of soil loss and modelling its spatial variability at landscape and regional scales is difficult in developing regions.

Physical-based models require detailed understanding of hydrological and modelling processes thus less applicable in data scarce regions.

LandFinanceHub is designed to facilitate the interaction between MSME which need funding with Financier that are looking for potential clients and their forestry and agriculture projects in the global south to be financed. The main objective of LandFinanceHub is to increase the flow of finance to deforestation-free commodity production and sustainable land use. The Hub also contains training materials and toolkits for the benefits of MSMEs and Financiers. The LandFinanceHub has been developed through the Green Finance For Sustainable Landscape Project which is jointly managed by United Nation Environment Program Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) and Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF) with funding from the Global Environment Facility (GEF).