The SANREM CRSP program is organized around five landscape systems that intersect and interact to affect sustainable agriculture and natural resource management: field, farm, watershed, ecosystem, and policy/governance. These systems are differentiated by the type of decision maker, scale of activities, and predominant incentives. The extent to which decision makers and incentives differ has important implications for many aspects of SA & NRM, including the appropriate types of technologies and practices, and optimal technology transfer strategies.

Each of the landscape systems has a coordinator. The SANREM management entity (ME) has also added a cross-cutting coordinator for technology transfer. These coordinators are documenting the metadata and synthesizing SA & NRM research findings within and across landscapes systems for inclusion in the SANREM Knowledge Base (SKB). They are also conducting workshops and seminars to disseminate findings in their areas of expertise. The overall purpose of the landscape system coordinators and their teams is to contribute to the SKB through the following objectives:

• 1: Review literature reflecting the state of the science in each system;
• 2: Identify state-of-the-art projects for case study analysis;
• 3: Develop case studies characterizing critical SA & NRM system issues; and
• 4: Develop a state-of-the-art and science review of each system.

Landscape system principal investigators