The International Partnership for the Satoyama Initiative (IPSI) is co-organised by the UN University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS) and the CBD Secretariat. It draws on the Japanese concept of satoyama — the human-managed landscape between wilderness and cultivation — to describe a broader global category: production landscapes jointly shaped by ecological processes and local cultural practice. IPSI brings together nearly 300 organisations to study, restore, and govern these landscapes, which range from traditional agroforestry systems to coastal fishing commons. It connects landscape-level practice with biodiversity governance at the CBD, grounding global policy in local knowledge.

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