The Global Land Programme at the Interface of Science, Society and Policy

GLP’s mission is to enable research for sustainable land systems. This includes partnering scientific innovation with societal relevance and place-based research with syntheses of global patterns and processes.

Land system science has a long tradition of working in partnership with society and decision-makers.

For us, to create partnerships based on mutual trust that render knowledge usable, actionable, and transformative, we all must expand our understanding of who, where, and when to engage.

Our current efforts facilitated by the IPO within the GLP community reflect this ambition. They seek to operationalise co-production into our organizational modes and practices by:

Identifying and developing promising lines of co-production.

How do the normative framework of the UN’s 2030 Agenda, the research agenda of land system science, and the knowledge needs of development and land policy communities align? To better understand the knowledge needs, the useability of existing knowledge, as well as the knowledge gaps, we seek answers over a diverse range of products and activities such as:

GLP thematic newsletter 2015 - Insights on co-production from land system research case studies

What role for global change research networks in enabling transformative science for global sustainability? - A Global Land Programme perspective

Land system science and the 2030 agenda: exploring knowledge that supports sustainability transformations - A survey of land policy actors and a meta-analysis of GLP papers on systemic interactions between SDG targets

Toward a normative land systems science - Three concrete steps for land system science to more deeply contribute to normative issues.

Promoting and establishing science-society-policy interfaces.

At GLP, we promote science-society-policy dialogue at multiple scales. We participate in international scientific assessments and reports (IPBES, IPCC, UNCCD, GSDR) and support ongoing national and local experimentation to understand what kinds of science-society-policy partnerships serve best for sustainable land systems.

The Science for Action Series - A joint synthesis series with the International Land Coalition on people-centred land governance

Building community ‘infrastructure’ for co-production.

A strong community lays the groundwork for a science capable of supporting and facilitating sustainability. Accordingly, at the IPO we aim to accelerate coordination and engagement to best support the GLP community:

GLP Working Groups advance specific research questions and / or synthesis activities in alignment with GLP’s science priorities and generate actionable knowledge in support of sustainability transformations in land systems. GLP Nodal Offices enable regional initiatives and coordination.

Future Earth - GLP is a flagship research project of Future Earth, a global research network that carries forward ‘global sustainability science’ and emphasizes science and society partnerships.

We are committed to harnessing scientific advances to craft transformative pathways towards sustainable land systems in partnership with societal actors.

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