Initiatives

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WORLD level

Name	Institution	Description
International Landscape Convention	UNESCO IFLA	In progress
Landscapes for People, Food and Nature	EcoAgriculture Partners	Is a collaborative Initiative to foster cross-sectoral dialogue, learning, and action. The partners aim to understand and support integrated agricultural landscape approaches to simultaneously meet goals for food production, ecosystem health and human well-being.
Rio +20	United Nations	United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development.
GIAHS	FAO	In 2002 FAO started an initiative for the dynamic conservation of Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS). The GIAHS Initiative promotes public understanding, awareness, national and international recognition of Agricultural Heritage systems.

EUROPE - European level

Name	Institution	Description
Eucaland Project	University of Cambridge	The Eucaland Project deals with the Agricultural Landscapes of Europe for promoting their consideration and use among their people and for preserving their cultural heritage.
ECOVERGER	ECOVERGER	Initiative for the economic and environmental development of agro-silvopastoral systems of Southwest Europe.
Charter of EU Rural Communities	European Commission	Since 1989, from every member state of the European Union there is one rural community represented in the Charter.
Rural Development Policy	European Commission	The EU's Rural Development Policy 2007-2013 is all about meeting the challenges faced by European rural areas and unlocking their potential.
LIFE programme	European Commission	LIFE is the EU’s financial instrument supporting environmental and nature conservation projects throughout the EU.
LEADER	European Commission	Is one of four initiatives financed by EU structural funds and is designed to help rural actors consider the long-term potential of their local region. Encouraging the implementation of integrated, high-quality and original strategies for sustainable development, it has a strong focus on partnership and networks of exchange of experience.
INTERREG	European Commission	The Interregional Cooperation Programme INTERREG, financed by the European Union’s Regional Development Fund, helps Regions of Europe work together to share experience and good practice in the areas of innovation, the knowledge economy, the environment and risk prevention.
F:ACTS! project	European Commission	Forms for: Adapting to Climate Change through Territorial Strategies! (F:ACTS!) is an INTERREG IVC project that runs from 1 January 2010 until 31 December 2012.
SUDOE programme	European Commission	The Programme for the Territorial Cooperation of the Southwest of Europe supports regional development through co-financing transnational projects via the ERDF (European Regional Development Fund).
ENRD	European Commission	The European Network for Rural Development is the hub that connects rural development stakeholders throughout the European Union.
Cultural Routes programme	Council of Europe	It was launched in 1987 in order to foster a better understanding of Europe's cultural diversity and European history. The Cultural Routes are a means for improving quality of life and a source of social and economic development, and give pride of place to cultural tourism.
Good Food for Good Farming campaign	ARC 2020	The Good Food Good Farming campaign is an initiative from The Agricultural and Rural Convention (ARC). It was launched in 2012 to mobilize citizens to take action and demand good food and good farming across Europe.
CIARD	CIARD	The Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research for Development initiative is a global movement working to make agricultural research information publicly available and more accessible.
Landscape Futures	PECS	Landscape Futures will implement a transdisciplinary research agenda to foster sustainable development in Eastern Europe, with particular emphasis on ancient agricultural landscapes in Central Romania.
HERCULES	PECS	The Sustainable futures for Europe's HERitage in CULtural landscapES project strives for the empowerment of public and private actors to protect, manage, and plan for sustainable landscapes at local, national, and Pan-European scales.

EUROPE - Countries and Regions

Name	Institution	Description
BurrenLIFE project Ireland	European Commission	It is the first major farming for conservation project in Ireland. Its objective is to develop a new model for sustainable agriculture in the Burren in order to conserve the habitats of the region designated under the Habitats Directive.
The Burren Farming for Conservation Programme Ireland	Dept. of Agriculture Fisheries and Food / Natural Parks and Wildlife Service	The programme aims to support high environmental value farming in the Burren, continuing and mainstreaming the findings of the BurrenLIFE Project (2005-2010).
Alleanza Mondiale per i paesaggi terrazzati Italy		Alliance for the local and national implementation of the Honghe Declaration for the protection of the terraced landscapes.
HELM United Kingdom	English Heritage	The HELM programme was set up in 2004 with the aim of working with key partners to provide the tools to manage change in the historic environment.
LCN United Kingdom	Natural England	The Landscape Character Network is an informal network with a dual focus on Landscape Character Assessment (LCA) and the European Landscape Convention.

CENTRE AND SOUTH AFRICA

Name	Institution	Description
SAPECS	PECS	The Sothern African Program on Ecosystem Change and Society is a transdisciplinary regional research program that aims to advance stewardship of social-ecological systems and ecosystem services in southern Africa.

ASIA AND PACIFIC

Name	Institution	Description
REPICORE	PECS	Research program for the resilience of South Pacific coral reef social-ecological systems in times of global change.
SATOYAMA Initiative Japan	UNU-IAS - UN University Institute for the Advanced study of Sustainability	Project to conserve the landscapes and seascapes where human and nature live in harmony, through broader global recognition of their value. It was launched by the Ministry of the Environment of Japan and the United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability in 2010.
Living Murray Initiative Australia	Australian Government Dept. of Environment	The Living Murray Initiative was established to help improve the health of the River Murray. The water recovered through the Living Murray Initiative will be used to improve the health of six icon sites.

NORTH AMERICA

Name

Institution

Description

Land Stewardship

Project

USA

LSP

Is a private, nonprofit organization founded in 1982 to foster an ethic of stewardship for farmland, to promote sustainable agriculture and to develop sustainable communities.