This document discusses sustainable landscapes and investments to support them. It notes that sustainable landscapes cut across sectors like forestry, agriculture, food security and climate change. The document proposes that sustainable landscapes could be their own UN Sustainable Development Goal due to their cross-cutting nature and ability to address livelihoods, the environment and the green economy. It argues that investments need to be scaled up in sustainable landscapes, which will require overcoming barriers like limited access to long-term financing and high transaction costs. The document concludes by recommending that policies cut across traditional sector boundaries to support sustainable landscapes and facilitate affordable, long-term financing for landscape investments.

1. Landscapes:
- What are they?
- Measuring performance
- Links to development goals
- Scaling up investments
Peter Holmgren
Director‐General, CIFOR

2. Vision
CIFOR vision:
Forests on the agenda - Value of forests recognized
Decisions that influence forests and people supported by solid
science and principles of good governance

3.  Poverty: How can forest and forestry contribute to the solutions?
 Food security, nutrition and health: Opportunities for sustainable,
equitable and effective provision of food, nutrients and medicine.
 Climate change: Forests and forestry are essential for climate change
mitigation and adaption.
 Biodiversity: Effective integration of conservation and development
 Production forestry for renewable materials and energy

4.  Sustainable landscapes: Forests are an integral part of
the landscape and essential for livelihoods as well as long-
term resilience and productivity of food systems. We must
bridge institutional boundaries and find integrated
solutions.
 Green growth: Policies for a green economy should
generate sustainable forest products and services, ensure
good governance of natural resources, and reduce poverty.

6. Green
growth
Livelihoods,
income
Food &
nutrition
Agriculture
resilience
Biodiversity
Climate
change
Farmer
REDD
nego‐
tiator
Env.
ngo
Poor
farme
r
Forest
industry
Forestry priorities are different

7. Climate change
Food and nutrition
Biodiversity
Livelihoods, income Green growth
Agriculture, resilience

12. Landscape objectives & performance measures

14. Can Sustainable Landscapes be one SDG?
 Sustainable landscapes defined above
• Universal performance/verification measures
• Applicable to any scale anywhere
 Sustainable landscapes relate to all SD dimensions
• Livelihoods of billlions, many poor
• Biggest part of the environmental challenges
• Essential component of the green economy
 What needs to be resolved?
• Forests to come out of the MDG ”environment box”
• Land-based sectors to join on Landscapes
• Higher-level political move to simplify SDGs

15. Investments at scale in Sustainable Landscapes
 Sustainable landscapes defined above
• Universal performance/verification measures
• Applicable to any scale anywhere
 Sustainable landscapes can be profitable
• They host billions of mostly small-scale enterprises
• Investments at scale must drive sustainable development
 Why is it not happening?
• Limited access to affordable and long-term finance
• Focus on how to use public funds not effective
• Risk management needs to evolve
• Transaction costs must come down

16. • Cut across traditional sector boundaries in policy
interventions – Sustainable Landscapes = SDG?
• Support affordable and long‐term finance for
landscape investments
• Invest in research that address the landscape level
and make evidence‐based policies possible
Policy implications