Integrated Landscape Approaches for Africa’s Drylands.

Front Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Executive Summary -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Objective, Audience, and Key Questions -- Chapter 2 Conceptual Framework -- Introduction -- Defining Integrated Landscape Management -- Resilience and Integrated Landscape Management -- Integrated Landscape Management in Practice -- Chapter 3 Role of Public and Private Stakeholders in Integrated Landscape Management -- Identification of Key Stakeholders and Rationales for Participation -- Policy Actions to Address Differences in Rationales -- Implications for Implementing Integrated Landscape Management -- Chapter 4 Economic and Ecological Evidence on Integrated Landscape Management -- Review of Valuation Approaches and Challenges -- Economic Framework-Reviewing Unique Costs and Benefits of Integrated Landscape Management -- Evidence from Landscape Approaches in Ethiopia -- Integrated Landscape Management Benefits and Resilience -- Implications for Implementing Integrated Landscape Management -- Note -- Chapter 5 Case Studies about Integrated Landscape Management in African Drylands -- Ethiopia Case Study -- Niger Case Study -- Kenya Case Study -- Insights from the Case Studies That Are Relevant to Implement Integrated Landscape Management -- Notes -- Chapter 6 Recommended Policies and Other Interventions to Advance Integrated Landscape Management and Enhance Resilience in Drylands -- Conclusions -- References -- Boxes -- 2.1 Landscape Definitions: Two Examples -- 2.2 Ecological and Institutional Scales, Agricultural Interventions, and Ecosystem Services -- 2.3 Landscape Approach Definitions: Examples -- 5.1 Green Water Credit Scheme -- Figures -- ES.1 Core Components of Integrated Landscape Management -- B2.2.1 Agricultural Interventions and Ecological and Institutional Scales.

2.1 Core Components of Integrated Landscape Management -- 2.2 Household-Level Interventions and Dimensions of Resilience -- 2.3 Landscape-Level Interventions and Dimensions of Resilience -- 3.1 Policy Approaches for Collective Action Initiatives -- 4.1 Conceptual Framework for Measuring Community Resilience -- 5.1 Tree Cover Change in Southern Niger, 1955-2005 -- 5.2 Upper Tana River Green Water Credits: Costs and Benefits -- Photos -- 5.1 Landscape Dynamics Southwest of Zinder, Niger, 1995-2005 -- 5.2 Water Harvesting and Agroforestry -- 5.3 Extent and Density of Tree Cover Across Southern Niger -- 5.4 Regenerated Gao Trees (Faidherbia albida) on Cropland in Niger -- 5.5 Restored Agroforestry Parklands in Niger -- Tables -- ES.1 Major Intervention Areas and Associated Policy Options to Advance integrated Landscape Management -- ES.2 Integrated Landscape Management Programs in Three Dryland Farming Systems -- 2.1 Sample of Development Approaches Used in Africa -- B2.2.1 Agricultural Interventions and Ecosystem Services at Different Scales -- 2.2 Principles of Good Practice for Integrated Landscape Management: Examples -- 2.3 Differences Between a Sectoral and a Landscape Approach -- 2.4 Integrated Landscape Management Initiatives in Practice: Examples of Farm and Landscape-Level Benefits -- 3.1 Key Stakeholders in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Niger -- 3.2 Example of Stakeholder Analysis Matrix for Sub-Saharan African Drylands -- 3.3 Policy Options to Reconcile Differences between Winners and Losers -- 4.1 Cost Evaluation Framework -- 4.2 Ecosystem Services Provided by Drylands in Africa -- 4.3 Benefits of Integrated Landscape Management -- 4.4 Integrated Approaches in Ethiopia: Evidence of Costs and Benefits of the MERET Program -- 4.5 Shocks and Preparation Strategies for MERET and Control Households.

5.1 How Were Principles of Good Practice for Integrated Landscape Management Addressed in Ethiopia's Landscape Restoration? -- 5.2 Integrated Approaches Operating in Tigray, Ethiopia -- 5.3 How were Principles of Good Practice for Integrated Landscape Management Addressed in the Niger Case Study? -- 5.4 Benefits of Trees on the Farm and Landscape Levels -- 5.5 Rainfall, Water-Harvesting Techniques and Cereal Yields in Niger (1991-96) -- 5.6 Average Annual Household Income from Agroforestry Parklands (US) -- 5.7 Upper Tana River Basin Case Study Details -- 5.8 How Were Principles of Good Practice for Integrated Landscape Management Addressed in the Kenya Case Study? -- 5.9 How Were Principles of Good Practice for Integrated Landscape Management Applied in the Three Case Studies? -- Back Cover.

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