“Early research results are in from applying Integrated Landscape Approaches (ILA) – bringing together stakeholders with varied and often conflicting concerns in a shared landscape — in three countries: Ghana, Indonesia and Zambia. The COLANDS findings can offer lessons for implementing ILAs at large scale, but key to success is recognizing that solutions are complex and must be tailored to the specific landscape – one size won’t fill all, says James Reed, scientist at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and team leader with COLANDS: Collaborating to Operationalize Landscape Approaches for Nature, Development and Sustainability.”
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