Scherr presented a commentary on the draft document “Food Security and Sustainable Resource Use - What are the Resource Challenges to Food Security?" prepared for the conference by Frank Place (CGIAR) and Alexandre Meybeck (FAO). She offered suggestions for advancing research, and proposed key priorities for action by FAO and the CGIAR: to encourage the adoption of known best practices, to support initiatives advancing multi-objective farms and landscapes, and to focus advanced science on multi-functional landscape systems.

1. Food Security and Sustainable Resource Use:
Comments
Sara J. Scherr, President, EcoAgriculture Partners
Food Security Futures: Research Priorities for the 21st Century
Dublin, Ireland – 11-12 April 2013

2. Securing Food Supply in the 21st Century:
Beyond Field-Scale Productivity

3. More than Food: Societal Demands from
Agricultural Landscapes

4. Beyond Resource Use Efficiency:
Negotiating Whole Landscape System Efficiency

5. From Diagnosis to Solutions:
Pathways toTransform Agriculture

6. An Explosion of Innovation on the Ground

7. www.landscapes.ecoagriculture.org

8. Ongoing Integrated Agriculture Landscape Initiatives
Latin America & Caribbean Sub-Saharan Africa
# Integrated Landscape
Initiatives Identified
104 87
# Countries Represented 21 33
Most Common Motivations
for Stakeholder
Collaboration
Biodiversity Conservation,
Reducing Natural Resource
Degradation
Biodiversity and Natural
Resource Conservation
Average # Stakeholders
Involved in Initiative
(primary stakeholders)
11
(farmers, local government,
NGOs)
9+
(local/district government,
NGOs, producer groups)
Core Investment Domains Institutional planning &
coordination, Agricultural
production, Conservation &
Livelihoods
Institutional planning &
coordination; Conservation;
Agricultural production
Milder, et al. Unpublished Data

9. Agroecological Practices that Generate Both HighYields and
Ecosystem Services
Ecosystem
Service
Conservation
Agriculture
Holistic
Grazing
Organic
Agriculture
Precision
Agriculture
System of
Rice
Intensification
Number of studies that indicate positive, neutral or negative outcomes for select system & service combinations.
+ = - + = - + = - + = - + = -
Pest
Control
1 2 4 7 6
Soil Fertility
& Structure
14 2 4 4 3 3 55 8 1 1 12 2 1
Nutrient
Cycling
6 1 2 2 1 1 23 39 5 12 2
Wild
Biodiversity
3 11 23 1 2
Erosion
Control
10 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
H20 qual. &
quant.
16 2 2 1 1 9 52 2
Garbach, et al. 2012. ‘An Assessment of the Multi-Functionality of
Agroecological Intensification.’ EcoAgriculture Partners: Washington, DC.
total # of studies reviewed = 219

10. Restoring Ecosystem Function in Agricultural Landscapes

11. Farmers Mobilizing for Land Stewardship,
Production and Market Access

12. Working
Together:
Overcoming
Fragmentation
and Institutional
Silos

13. 1) Promote Adoption of Known Best Practices
(short-term)

14. 2) Support Initiatives Advancing Multi-Objective
Farms and Landscapes (medium-term)

15. 3) Focus Advanced Science on Multi-
Functional Systems (long-term)

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