The international Ecoagriculture Conference, Knowledge Exchange, and Action Planning initiative has four objectives:

1. To share and assess experience with diverse models for ecoagriculture (socio-ecological production ) landscape development and take stock of lessons learned and recent progress globally;

2. To identify and understand the demographic, market, ecological, and other forces that influence ecoagriculture (socio-ecological production) landscapes and their potential to achieve production, conservation, and livelihood goals;

3. To showcase tools developed in areas such as landscape analysis, multi-stakeholder planning, strategic design of interventions, policy design, sustainable supply chain development, and monitoring of impacts and outcomes; and

4. To define and mobilize an international action agenda to support innovators and develop ecoagriculture (socio-ecological production) landscapes on a scale that would make a significant difference in achieving global goals for food security, climate change mitigation and adaptation, and conservation of biodiversity and ecosystem services.

This two-year process will be oriented around approximately 6-8 Key Questions, the answers to which will be critical to management, policy, and investment for rural landscapes in the coming decade. The first year will focus on analysis, synthesis and consultations among innovators. Results will be fed into an international Conference to be held in late February/early March of 2012, in Nairobi, Kenya, hosted by UNEP. During the second year, outputs from the Conference will be published and disseminated to different field, program and policy audiences, to support the scaling up of agricultural landscape investment. EcoAgriculture Partners leads the group of Co-Organizers, which presently include Bioversity International, Conservation International, UNEP, and World Agroforestry Centre. We propose that the Secretariat of the International Partnership for the Satoyama Initiative (IPSI) and other interested IPSI members also become a Core Organizer of this meeting, to ensure that Satoyama Initiative’s concept and experience are fully incorporated and to enhance the international profile of IPSI efforts.