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This manual determined the important principles of PLUP implementation, especially in relation to community participation in the process. A diagnostic study conducted a few months later in a project implementing PLUP along the new guidelines showed that on-the-ground PLUP implementation was still problematic as some tools and methods had not been detailed in the PLUP Manual. The purpose of this PLUP Handbook is to provide practical tools and methods for PLUP implementation based on experiments conducted by the National Agriculture and Forestry Research Institute (NAFRI) together with relevant district line agencies (District Land Management Authority (DLMA) and the District Agriculture and Forestry Offices (DAFO) with the support of the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and the Institute of Research for Development (IRD) in six villages of Viengkham District in 2010, and in eight more villages in 2011 in partnership with the European Union (EU)-funded Agrisud Project.

The European Union funded Collaborative Land Use Planning and Sustainable Institutional Arrangements project is being implemented by the French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (Centre de coopération internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement, CIRAD) in partnership with CIFOR, Telapak and several local nongovernment organizations (NGOs) and universities. The project aims to contribute to reducing environmental degradation and strengthening land tenure and community rights by collaboratively integrating all stakeholders’ views in land-use planning processes. The outputs revolve around the relationship between land-use planning, land allocation and the provision and scoping for possible payment of ecosystem services. The project focuses on two regencies (kabupaten) in Indonesia: Kapuas Hulu and Central Maluku.

Integrated landscape management (ILM) is an increasingly popular approach to addressing development, climate change, food security and a host of other global issues. But what does it mean to take a landscape approach? Can we ensure policymakers and institutions aren’t simply putting a new label on old ideas? By clearly defi ning key concepts while recognizing the diversity of perspecti ves we hope to ground ILM in a common foundati on, so that conversations about landscape management are clear, producti ve, and support real innovation.

The Little Sustainable Landscapes Book aims to clarify and disseminate sustainable landscape management methods, and to catalyse their implementation across private and public sectors worldwide. Also available in French, Spanish and Bahasa Indonesia.

Land Use Planning for Low Emission Development Strategy (LUWES) is a platform for developing a multiple stakeholder decision-making process to establish land use plans for sustainable development, which can reduce greenhouse gas emissions from land-based activity while simultaneously maintaining economic growth. It can simulate emissions reduction scenarios within specific zones of a landscape, or across an entire landscape, in order to produce ex ante emissions reduction and opportunity cost forecasts. The strategy is currently being implemented in all provinces in Indonesia, and also being piloted in other countries –Vietnam, Cameroon and Peru where training and initial studies for implementation and scale up are being conducted.