Focus Area 2 Restoring value to Grasslands Ottawa 15-17 October 2013 Liz Wedderburn Alexandre Ickowicz Ilse Kohler-Rollefson Barry Boubakary Ben Henderson
Focus Area 2 Restoring value to Grasslands
Ottawa 15-17 October 2013
Liz WedderburnAlexandre IckowiczIlse Kohler-RollefsonBarry BoubakaryBen Henderson
FOCUS AREA OBJECTIVE
o Primary objective:“To maintain and restore both environmental and economic value to grasslands, while preserving their social and cultural functions globally”.
Restoring value of grasslands, how?
o Grow our global understanding and identify shared views
o Design transition pathways to the future
o Create a global learning and innovation environment built from on the ground experiences that will inform both local and global action, especially through comparative analysis
o Integrate production, environment, economic, social and cultural well being, and collective action in grassland system assessment
FA2 Conceptual Framework : Restoring value to grassland Multiscale and participative approach
What are the valuesof Grasslands for
stakeholders?- Economics- Ecological- Social / Cultural
How to assess the valuesof Grasslands?
- Methods?- Who?
Role of Grasslands in
local development?- Diagnosis- Indicators
Improving value of Grasslands through innovation
- Policy practice and strategy- Technical practice- Local stakeholder practice
Consult and Network Analyse and Inform
Guide and Pilot
Tangible outputs
o Global lessons related to monitoring and managing progress towards sustainable grassland systems
o Identification of practices that will enable desired change
o Evidence based messages about the value
of grasslands for use in dialogue
Progress to date Consult and Network
Collection, collation and sharing of existing data, info & experienceso Set up a WEB portal that is currently being used
as an inventory of information on grassland values. We plan to expand it’s functionality and build a workspace within the portal.
o Initiated a stock take of government/sector policies related to grassland management
Progress to date Consult and Network
o Building networks while participating in a series of Grassland related meetings and conferences:
• 4th Conference SAADC in China (July 2013)
• European Association for Animal Production meeting held in Nantes (August 2013) "LFS innovations for local/rural development“
• 22nd International Grasslands Congress in Sydney (Sept 2013)
• APESS workshop in Cameroon (Nov 2013)
Progress to date Analyze and Inform
o Proposal for NAMA-based initiative has been drafted & with workshop planned for early 2014
o Global soil C sequestration assessment for grasslands completed (ID global hot spots)
o Develop, evaluate and compare affordable MRV (measurement, reporting and verification) methods• Sustainable grazing management C accounting
methodology
o Comparative analysis of mental models 15 grassland sites throughout the world
o Develop/adopt accounting mechanisms/indictors to value grasslands
DRP PPZS
Pilot sites
Diversity, context
Progress to date Pilot sites
Development of an inventory of global pilot sites to:o Undertake a global comparative description o Describe the different values and measures for
grassland held by stakeholders.
o Describe the contribution of livestock farming to sustainable development
o Develop tools and processes for multi
stakeholders to assess and explore impacts of multiple drivers on future grassland systems
Progress to date Pilot Sites
Identify new pilot projects:o Fill in the gaps of the current configuration of
pilot sites to provide diversity of approaches o Provide evidence and example of how grassland
values can be restored and enhanced in practice
o Test innovation and practice change
This Meeting
o Building on progress:• What priorities from pilot sites to inform
Global lessons e.g. testing innovation; topics for synthesis
• How to build on collaborative initiatives
• Additionality from participation in GAA, what is it and how do we capture it?
• Where are the quick wins?
• Preparation of next FA2 meeting
Thank You