International Satoyama Initiative

1. World Congress of Agroforestry 2009 International Satoyama Initiative Yoshihiro NATORI Senior Fellow United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies 26 August 2009 Nairobi, Kenya

2. Background • To protect wilderness area alone is not enough for the biodiversity conservation at global scale. • Important to realize sustainable use of land and natural resource consistent with biodiversity conservation at global scale.Focus on the traditional man-nature relationship in satoyama landscapes as a sustainable rural societies in harmony with nature. • These positive relationships between human and nature can be found in various areas in the world. • Satoyama-like landscape may also contribute to the improvement of livelihoods of people especially in developing countries as well as the resolving of global issues such as food security, poverty and climate change.

3. Satoyama Initiative Japan proposes the Satoyama Initiative to disseminate the concept of living in harmony with nature as in Satoyama landscape to the global community. G8 Environment Ministers Meeting 2008(Kobe city Japan) Kobe Call for Action for Biodiversity CBD-COP9（Bonn, Germanｙ） The kickoff meeting was held in March 2009 in Tokyo

4. The concept of satoyama like landscape(tentative) • Basically it is a landscape created in a long term interrelationship between nature and human activities through agriculture, forestry, fishery and animal husbandry. • Often maintained based on traditional knowledge. • The focus is to conserve and create ways that human utilize and manage land and natural resources in sustainable manner. • Include landscape where sustainable natural resource use approach has been recently brought into. • Include landscape in suburban area where appropriate human-nature relationships are constructed.

5. Characteristics of Satoyama like landscape • Maintenance and formation processes • Shaped and maintained by humans, who, while leading lives that were centered on agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishing, exerted an influence on the local natural environment as a result of a series of land usage and natural resource utilization and management techniques. 2. Structure and Ecological Processes • Mosaics of numerous land uses • Functional relationships between each types of land use • arranged in accordance with natural environmental and geographical conditions • Dynamic land usage (e.g., shifting cultivation, the regular logging of forests) • Vegetation composed of different stages of succession • Utilizing the resilience of nature in an appropriate and positive manner • Compound land usage that imitates the structure of natural ecosystems

6. Characteristics of Satoyama like landscape(cont’d) 3. Usage and Management • The harvesting and management of natural resources is performed by the local community on a shared basis • There are rules which prevent the overexploitation of natural resources. (the time and frequency and quantity) 4. Distribution/ Regional characteristics • Wide range in types of satoyama-like landscape • In continental landscape, it is often composed of cultivated fields, rice paddies, forests, grasslands, water reservoirs, canals and settlements, etc. • In coastal land area, local communities utilize the natural resources taken from dry land as well as in water (e.g., fish, sea weed etc.). • The concept of coexistence harmonious with nature is now influencing regional planning in suburban area • Systems and methods of managing and utilizing the land are unique and depend on the natural and socio-economic conditions of each region.

7. Characteristics of Satoyama like landscape(cont’d) 5. Changeability • Satoyama-like landscape has been changed into forms in accordance with prevailing socio-economic conditions or technological development. 6. Biodiversity • Biodiversity in satoyama-like landscapes should NOT be valued in comparison with that of pristine ecosystem but it should be treated as different and unique or one that strengthens pristine ecosystem. • Various types of habitats derived from mosaic type and dynamic land use systems • Unique biota are sometimes nurtured in satoyama-like landscapesas seen in Japan as a result of appropriate human intervention to nature. • Alternative habitats and buffer-zone-to-wilderness role

8. Characteristics of Satoyama like landscape(cont’d) 7. Ecosystem services and 8. Human well-beings • Production of various types of food and other goods makes livelihood of local residents more stable. • Healthy ecosystems as basis of agriculture, forestry, fishery and animal husbandry will contribute to the stable and improved livelihoods of the local residents and to steady supply of products to the residents in wider area including urban areas. • Biodiversity and/or attractive sceneries will create opportunities for education and recreation by which enhancement of local economy can be achieved. • Contribution to the food security, poverty, energy and climate change-related issues • Enhancement of human welfare by improving aspects of health and assisting in the formation of positive social relationships.

9. Initiative’s Threefold Vision

10. The Five Perspectives

11. Strategic implementation of the Satoyama Initiative Threefold vision and five perspectives Effective advancement of SatoyamaInitiative Development of a shared strategy Agreement on partnership framework Close cooperation with like-minded initiatives/partnerships 1

12. Works to be done for the Satoyama Initiative Information gathering (Case studies: sustainable use of natural resources) Analyses of gathered information (Lessons learned, Practical measures, Challenges) Database development Establishment of online portal site →　Information dissemination, Capacity building Action Plan formulation Launching of International Partnership 2

13. Framework/Partnership

14. Preparation for the launch ofthe International Satoyama Initiative • UNU-IAS and MoE has been working together leading up to launch the Initiative at the CBD-COP10 • Preparatory meetings • 25 July 2009 in Tokyo Develop conceptual framework - 1-3 October 2009 in Malaysia Discuss similarities and differences in satoyama like landscape in Asian region - January 2010 International meeting • Through these meetings, concept, vision and perspectives on sustainable use and management of natural resources in satoyama-type landscapes are to be developed.

15. Preparation for the launch ofthe International Satoyama Initiative (Cont’d) • Case studies • Collect and analyze good practices in natural resources utilization and management in satoyama typelandscape from various areas in the world • Those practices help developing the vision and perspectives of the initiative concept • Lessons will also be shared widely through a unique portal site. • The Portal site • will be launched in this fall. • Good practices • Documentary films

16. Time-line of theSatoyama Initiative Preparation Preparatory Meetings Relating Meetings CBD related Meetings 1st Preparatory Meeting (Expert, Int. org : Tokyo, July ‘09) 2nd World Congress on Agroforestry (Nairobi, Aug ‘09) COP Bureau Meeting (Sweden, Sep ’09) 2009 2nd Preparatory Meeting (Asian nation, Expert, Int. org: KOBE Biodiversity Dialogue (Kobe, Aug ‘09) COP-SBSTTA Joint Bureau Meeting(Nov ‘09) Submission of Proposal to SCBD (Feb ‘10) 3rd Preparatory Meeting (Gov., COP & SBSTTA Bureau, Expert, Int. org : Europe, Jan ‘10) Trondheim Meeting (Sweden, Feb ‘10) 6ｔｈ　COP Bureau Meeting (March ’10) 2010 Additional Preparatory Meeting？ SBSTTA 14 (May ‘10) COP10 (Oct. 2010) Launching of thePartnership 3