Achieving impact at scale through an integrated landscape approach

Boerstler et al discuss the Impact Programme on Dryland Sustainable Landscapes (DSL-IP). The DSL-IP is a multiscale and multipartner cross-cutting, leveraging and catalytic initiative that applies an integrated approach, maximizing synergies to achieve programmatic 1+1=3 results. The USD 104 million IP supports 11 "child" projects in participating countries to apply sustainable and integrated management of production landscapes to achieve land degradation neutrality while improving local livelihoods. Integrated landscape management (ILM) at scale is at the core of the DSL-IP as an integrated, multidimensional approach embedded in each of the child projects' strategic frameworks. The ILM approach offers the potential for "win-win" synergies between environmental and social considerations, delivering sustainable production systems and livelihoods at the local level alongside global environmental benefits. An inclusive and integrated approach for landscape assessment is the first step to ILM.