The Landscape Approach

The Convention on Biological Diversity’s most significant component is the 12 Malawi Principles, also commonly referred to as the Ecosystem Approach. And what these describe is a management system akin to feudalism. But while I covered those in the past, I only partially covered the other related ‘approach’ of importance.

And as luck would have it, the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice of the CBD adopted 10 principles describing said in 2013.

I previously covered the Landscape Approach over here, though to be honest, it’s more about the implications thereof -

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The article to which I refer in this article can be located over here¹. ‘Ten principles for a landscape approach to reconciling agriculture, conservation, and other competing land uses‘

And let’s have a quick look at who wrote this literary masterpiece. CIFOR. And CIFOR. … and CIFOR. Oh, and CIFOR. And finally, we have CIFOR again along with 3 employees of the Center for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science.

And let’s work out what kind of ‘best available science’ we’re up against, and exactly how long ago the ‘Landscape Approach’ was allegedly invented (which is another of those little tricks they always play). In fairness, this is one of the exceptions where I have located references a fair while back, but these always slightly… change along the way.