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Tropical Horizons: Advancing Sustainability in Agriculture, Environment, and Technology 17-19 July 2024
Tropical ecosystems host an incredible array of biodiversity found in diverse habitats that exist in contrasting land use types. Aside from their inherent ecological value, these ecosystems and their biodiversity also provide significant ecosystem goods and services promoting economic and other livelihood opportunities. Despite these major benefits for humans in the form of ecosystem goods and services, ecosystem and landscape degradation by human activity and changes in land-use, climate and population do compromise their ecological functioning (Blake et al., 2018; Veldhuis et al., 2019; Ngondya and Munishi, 2022; Capitani et al., 2019; Kariuki et al., 2021; 2022; Simba et al., 2024; Scaini et al., 2024).
Using multiple lines of evidence and drawing on collective experience from multidisciplinary research works focused on the tropical landscapes, we find that it is such a high time we come together in a platform to identify the major challenges and opportunities for translating research from these landscapes into better-informed choices by individuals and policy-makers. This way, we expect that the dialogues and discussions in this conference will in turn provide a roadmap that can support transformation of tropical landscapes to a sustainable future especially across their vast network of degraded ecosystems (Blake et al., 2018; Simba et al., 2024; Scaini et al., 2024). We therefore invite and call upon conference participants to discuss together and find potential pathways to overcome these challenges including e providing targeted options that may include for dissemination and outreach, and facilitate collaboration and coordination across different sites in ways that will realize sustainability and resilience of these ecosystems
