Exploring opportunities for green growth in Mbeya, Tanzania

The Ecoagriculture Working Group, in partnership with EcoAgriculture Partners and the Environmental Resource Management Center for Sustainable Development (ERMCSD) has been working with agricultural leaders, conservation and development practitioners, business owners and policy-makers to identify agricultural innovations that can improve local livelihood opportunities while conserving biodiversity. An initial workshop in March, 2013 used spatial planning to target areas for advancing green growth innovations such as SRI and landscape labelling. This workshop is being followed by a second workshop at the end of September, 2013 to design a process for pilot testing a landscape labelling approach as a new market mechanism for rewarding farmers for conserving biodiversity.

A blog post on the first workshop is available here and the workshop report can be found here.