Experts in landscape space and management in the country have today converged for a four-day platform to discuss challenges threatening biodiversity loss.
The over 150 participants meeting under the Kenya Landscapes Actors Platform (KenLap) observed the need for long term plan by players from various landscapes to share experiences and synergise on strategies that each is using to address matters landscapes
Participants derived from Government, development partners, researchers, communities and farming households both national, international and across borders are looking at the possibilities and strategies they will put forward to make sure that landscape gives them benefits considering degradation risks are worsening food insecurity.
Speaking today at the meeting Kenyan Agricultural and Livestock Research Organisation ((KALRO) Chief Research Scientist Dr Michael Okoti said the meeting plans to come up with a 10-year strategic plan that is supposed to have input from each and every stakeholder from the various landscapes within the country.
“We want to have a very robust blueprint on the steps that will take for us to better the various landscapes within the countries
Dr Okoti noted that despite the contribution of our landscapes, Kenya as a country still faces several challenges which include multiplicity of drivers of degradation and there is need therefore to address more than one driver of degradation which can require different strategies.
Source: https://www.kenyanews.go.ke/stakeholders-push-for-the-protection-of-landscapes/