Building resilience to climate change through a landscape design approach

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A multi-country study that explored resilience of African smallholder farming systems to climate variability and change between 2007 and 2010, revealed farmers’ priorities for

The land management strategies of local communities in response to climate hazards also affected the delivery of ecosystem services at regional and global scales, through

2014. Before village  intervention, almost 90% of  village territory dedicated to  rotational upland crops 

Fire Deforestation Water pollution Deterioration Forest exploitation (paths) Drought Bad practices in water use Water projects for rural development Land planning Legal

The approach developed by the Eco-Friendly Intensification and Climate resilient Agricultural Systems (EFICAS) Project is based on an in-depth understanding of the

Influencing agrarian changes in the uplands Adapted from Griffon, 2013 Natural landscapes Managed landscapes Degraded landscapes Healthy landscapes Natural 

This research is supported by the EFICAS project (Landscape Management and Conservation Agriculture Development for Eco-Friendly Intensification and Climate resilient