Resource information
This sourcebook is intended to be a
ready reference for practitioners (including World Bank
stakeholders, clients in borrowing countries, and World Bank
project leaders) seeking state-of-the-art information about
good land management approaches, innovations for
investments, and close monitoring for potential scaling up.
This sourcebook is divided into three parts: the first part
identifies the need and scope for sustainable land
management (SLM) and food production in relation to
cross-sector issues such as freshwater and forest resources,
regional climate and air quality, and interactions with
existing and emerging infectious diseases. It introduces the
concept of production landscapes and analysis of trade-offs
and establishes a framework for linking indicators that
provide a measure of the outcomes of SLM. It then
categorizes the diversity of land management (that is,
farming) systems globally and the strategies for improving
household livelihoods in each type of system. For the
farming system types, a set of SLM principles and common but
important issues for future investments are identified. The
second part of the sourcebook focuses on three major farming
system types and presents a range of investment notes and
innovative activity profiles. The third part provides users
of the source book with easy-to access, web-based resources
relevant for land and natural resource managers. The
resources are available in the public domain, and readers
can access the web sites of various international and
national agencies.
