Ecoagriculture Partners (EP)
Organisation O0133
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| Contact details | Ecoagriculture Partners 730 11th Street, NW, Suite #301 Washington, DC 20001 USA Phone: +1 (202) 393 5315 Fax: +1 (202) 393 2424 |
| Type of organisation | Environment-Development Institution |
| Organisation's interest | Conservation |
| Location | United States of America |
| Learning Group member? | Yes |
Description
Ecoagriculture Partners an international non-profit organization that strives for a world where current agricultural lands are increasingly managed as ecoagriculture landscapes to achieve three complementary goals: to enhance rural livelihoods; conserve biodiversity; and sustainably produce crops, livestock, fish, and forest products. We help to scale up successful ecoagriculture approaches by catalyzing strategic connections, dialogue, and joint action among key actors at local, national, and international levels.
Projects
1. Landscape Measures Initiative: This initiative seeks to help ecoagriculture practitioners measure the social, economic and ecological outcomes of landscape-scale management practices, as well as develop tools for multi-stakeholder groups to plan landscape activities and set measurable goals and targets. A common framework is being developed to support local stakeholders to work together with public, private and civic institutions to develop locally-appropriate evaluation methods and indicators that jointly assess outcomes on biodiversity conservation, sustainable production and rural livelihoods. www.landscapemeasures.org
2. Community Knowledge Service: Ecoagriculture Partners is working in partnership with the UNDP Equator Initiative and a number of community-based leaders and partners to design and implement an international ‘Community Knowledge Service’. The goal of the Community Knowledge Service is to enable community leaders to strengthen and scale-up their work to enhance livelihoods while sustaining and conserving biodiversity. The CKS focuses on bottom-up processes that facilitate the sharing of knowledge and expertise, and the adaptation and application of new knowledge to strengthen community management practices.
3. Markets for Ecoagriculture: Strengthening market incentives to practice ecoagriculture is also a key challenge. Current market incentives rarely reflect the value rural producers and communities provide as environmental stewards. Ecoagriculture Partners is supporting a number of activities to understand and mobilize innovative product and ecosystem service markets that have the potential to improve the economic viability of ecoagriculture.
Geographic coverage
Africa
Americas
Asia
People
Dr Sara J. Scherr, President, Ecoagriculture Partners
E-mail: sscherr@ecoagriculture.org
Sajal Sthapit, Program Associate, Ecoagriculture Partners
E-mail: ssthapit@ecoagriculture.org
Web URL
http://www.ecoagriculture.org/
Related records below this one:
- Who Conserves the World's Forests? Community-Driven Strategies to Protect Forests and Rights (Biblio B1132)
- Community Based Ecoagriculture Initiatives: Findings from the 2002 UNDP Equator Prize Nominations (Biblio B1121)
- Developing Ecoagriculture to Improve Livelihoods, Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Production at a Landscape Scale (Biblio B1120)