Understanding multifunctional landscapes and their change to inform intensification efforts

Hanna SinareMultifunctional landscapes for food security,

livelihoods and the environment7-8 June 2016

Outline• Entry point to these

landscapes• Approach to study

these landscapes• Changes in landscape

units and ecosystem services 1950-2013

• Implications for sustainable intensification

Entry point: Large scale studies show a greener Sahel

Herrmann et al. (2005)

Trends in residual NDVI, 1982-2003

What does it mean for people?

Change in ecosystem servicesThe benefits people obtain from ecosystems

Co-produced by humans in ecosystems

Study area

NDVI-data from S. Herrmann

Provisioning ecosystem services

Cereals Legumes

Vegetables Leaf vegetables from herbs

Leaf vegetables from trees

Fruits Medicine

Firewood Construction material

Livestock

Identified social-ecological patches

Depression

HomesteadsFields

ShrublandFallow

Forest

Bare soil

Woodland

Areas around public buildings

Irrigated vegetables

Multiple ecosystem services from almost all patches

Sinare et al. in revision

Change in social-ecological patches

• Increase of fields, decrease of shrubland and woodland– 3 villages: Fields covered 40 % in 1950’s, increased to

60-70 % 2010’s– 2 villages 30 % 1950’s, increase to 40 % and 60 %– 1 village almost 70 % Fields 1952, increse to almost 80

% in mid-1980’s

1952/1955

1967/1968

1983/1984

1996 2006/2010 2013/2016

1952 1967

1984 1996

2006 20131952

19842006

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

100%Public build-ing areas

Bare Soil

Shrubland

Forest

Woodland

Depression

Homesteads

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What does area mean for benefit?

Messages and questions for intensification efforts

• Multiple benefits from each patch – assess changes in all of them to understand livelihood effects of intensification

• Model effects – how can intensification change patches?

• How can intensification be sustainable and attract new generations of farmers?

Line Gordon, Elin Enfors Kautsky, Lowe BörjesonKatja Malmborg

Korodjouma Ouattara, Souleymane Paré, Issa OuedraogoINERA Burkina Faso

Funded by Sida

Thank you!

Change in social-ecological patches over time

• 100 x 100 m squares with point 5 m radius in the middle– Social-ecological patch

• Systematic or random changes between social-ecological patches?

• Change in role of the landscape for livelihoods?

Time series of images