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Thursday, May 16, 2024

Launch of Landscape Restoration Guidebook for Planners and Practitioners

16 May 2024
. World Resources Institute (WRI) is organizing a virtual webinar to launch the Guidebook titled ‘Step-by-Step Guide for Restoration Planners and Practitioners’ that presents a step-by-step process for planning and implementing a landscape approach to restoration projects. 

The Guidebook identifies five essential stages of restoration projects - Scope, Design, Finance, Implement, and Monitor - each outlined with key steps and a checklist to help planners and practitioners to track their progress and ensure that each topic has been taken into consideration before launching into a new project. 

These checklists can be adapted and implemented by planners and practitioners in a variety of ecosystems, including grasslands, pasturelands, farmlands, coastal zones, wetlands, and peatlands.


Resource:

WRI (2024) The Restoration Launchpad: A Step-by-Step Guide for Restoration Planners and Practitioners # 84 pp.
  • This guidebook presents a step-by-step process for planning and implementing a landscape approach to restoration projects. It identifies five essential stages - Scope, Design, Finance, Implement, and Monitor - each outlined with key steps and a checklist to help project developers track their progress and plan properly before launching into a new project.
  • Experiences from Brazil, India and Mexico

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This WRI report offers a four-pronged “Produce, Protect, Reduce and Restore” framework as a potential solution to land use in both our consumption and production practices.

This includes prescriptions to ‘protect’ remaining natural and semi-natural ecosystems; to ‘reduce’ food waste and land-hungry consumption practices; and to ‘restore’ forests and wetlands on areas of land where carbon and biodiversity benefits are exceptional, or where food production potential is low.

The ‘produce’ message from the WRI report is equally clear. The world needs to accelerate gains in agricultural productivity to avoid further loss of natural ecosystems. Meeting a projected 56% growth in crop calorie demand between 2010 and 2050 would mean increasing crop yields by 1.2 times the historical yield growth rate from 1960 to 2010 (a 50-year period which included Norman Borlaug’s ‘Green Revolution’).

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