Integrated Landscape Management (ILM) is a core component within each country project of the Food Systems, Land Use and Restoration Impact Program (FOLUR) funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and led by the World Bank. Leveraging on its long-time country-support on ILM, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) developed the Participatory, Informed, Landscapes Approach (PILA) to accelerate productive landscape-level transformations of food systems to achieve Global Environmental Benefits while ensuring sustainable livelihoods and food security. PILA empowers stakeholders to make evidenced-based decisions about the future of their landscapes through catalysing the process of Integrated Landscape Management Plan (ILMP) development and implementation for transformative landscape governance.
The PILA geoportal
PILA supports the ILM process to make easy and fast use of relevant and reliable geospatial information at different spatial levels. This includes leveraging on existing global, regional, national and sub-national data through a dedicated geospatial platform. The PILA geospatial platform, is a web-based global platform targeting all 27 FOLUR countries and hosted in the FAO Earth Map tool from the Open Foris suite. It is meant to allow any user, without background in programming, to access and analyse remote sensing data with known accuracies on biophysical, socioeconomic and productive conditions (e.g. on productivity trends, land use change dynamics, tree cover loss, land degradation, restoration opportunities, etc.). The PILA geoportal leverages the petabytes of multitemporal, multiscale, multiparametric, and quasi-real-time satellite imagery and geospatial datasets from Google Earth Engine and other qualified sources. It also offers advanced analytical functionalities through a point-and-click graphical user-friendly interface, taking advantage of Google cloud services, and allowing quick environmental and climate data analysis as well as land monitoring over an area of interest.
