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Research Area 2 "Land Use and Governance"

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How can we sustainably develop and shape intensively used agricultural landscapes?

The focus of this Research Area lies on the investigation of land use practices and their interactions with associated ecosystem services and biodiversity. These interactions are not only studied for agriculturally managed crop- and grasslands, but also in the context of adjacent ecosystems such as forests and waterbodies. It is the aim to use research results to support the site-adapted management of agricultural landscapes under the impact of climate change and in different socio-economic and socio-cultural contexts. This adapted management must be supported by stakeholders and institutionally promoted. Research on the interactions, the development of suitable indicators for the valorisation of the services provided by agricultural landscapes and embedded ecosystems, the development of suitable governance approaches as well as the dissemination of institutional, technological and management-related innovations are additional topics of research in this Research Area.

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Our Working Groups

 

The topics of this Research Area address the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG; UN 2015), which are also addressed in the German Sustainable Development Strategy (2016): Zero Hunger (2), Health and Well-Being (3), Clean Water und Sanitation (6), Responsible Consumption and Production (12), Climate Action (13), Life below Water (14), and Life on Land (15).

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Working groups in research area 2 

 

 

News

Title: Successful defense of Karoline Hemminger's doctoral thesis
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After successfully defended of her doctoral thesis (Karoline Hemminger, 2nd from right)
26.11.2025

Successful defense of Karoline Hemminger's doctoral thesis

Title: What matters in Brussels? Study shows: EU agricultural policy sees nature primarily as a resource
MehrLink: https://www.zalf.de/en/aktuelles/Pages/Pressemitteilungen/Studie_Agrarpolitik.aspx, More
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25.11.2025

What matters in Brussels? Study shows: EU agricultural policy sees nature primarily as a resource

Title: Why Many Tanzanian Households Still Cook with Firewood Despite Having Electricity
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21.11.2025

Why Many Tanzanian Households Still Cook with Firewood Despite Having Electricity

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Publications

MyTitle: The JUST GROW framework: conceptualizing how city regions can govern urban agriculture for equity and sustainability
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MyAutoren: Baur, P., Jennings, R., Aliu, S., Calo, A. J., Farhangi, M., He, Y., Kanki, K., Koch, A.-K., Kiyoyama, Y., Martin, M., Sabir, B., Schröter, B., Specht, K., Taylor, J. R., Treviño, M., Vinge, H., Voora, V. A. (2025)
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The JUST GROW framework: conceptualizing how city regions can govern urban agriculture for equity and sustainability

Baur, P., Jennings, R., Aliu, S., Calo, A. J., Farhangi, M., He, Y., Kanki, K., Koch, A.-K., Kiyoyama, Y., Martin, M., Sabir, B., Schröter, B., Specht, K., Taylor, J. R., Treviño, M., Vinge, H., Voora, V. A. (2025)
MyTitle: Review and Assessment of Crop-Related Digital Tools for Agroecology
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MyAutoren: Anastasiou, E., Kasimati, A., Papadopoulos, G., Vatsanidou, A., Gemtou, M., Kantelhardt, J., Gabriel, A., Schwierz, F., Matavel, C. E., Meyer-Aurich, A., Maritan, E., Behrendt, K., Moroder, A. M., Bellingrath-Kimura, S. D., Pedersen, S. M., Landi, A., Pesonen, L., Rojic, J., Kim, M., Denzer, H., Fountas, S. (2025)
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Review and Assessment of Crop-Related Digital Tools for Agroecology

Anastasiou, E., Kasimati, A., Papadopoulos, G., Vatsanidou, A., Gemtou, M., Kantelhardt, J., Gabriel, A., Schwierz, F., Matavel, C. E., Meyer-Aurich, A., Maritan, E., Behrendt, K., Moroder, A. M., Bellingrath-Kimura, S. D., Pedersen, S. M., Landi, A., Pesonen, L., Rojic, J., Kim, M., Denzer, H., Fountas, S. (2025)
MyTitle: Drivers of plant invasions and their scale-dependency in grasslands
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MyAutoren: Buzhdygan, O., Baldauf, S., Tietjen, B., Iemelianova, S., Borovyk, D., Vynokurov, D., Chusova, O., Budzhak, V., Bergmann, J., Dengler, J., Dembicz, I., Janišová, M., Vasheniak, I., Chase, J., Kuzemko, A. (2026)
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Drivers of plant invasions and their scale-dependency in grasslands

Buzhdygan, O., Baldauf, S., Tietjen, B., Iemelianova, S., Borovyk, D., Vynokurov, D., Chusova, O., Budzhak, V., Bergmann, J., Dengler, J., Dembicz, I., Janišová, M., Vasheniak, I., Chase, J., Kuzemko, A. (2026)

Projects

MyTitle: Transformar para conservar - Transformational approaches to Indigenous and Afro-descendant rights-based conservation actions for biodiversity, climate adaptation and mitigation, and self-determined well-being
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Transformar para conservar - Transformational approaches to Indigenous and Afro-descendant rights-based conservation actions for biodiversity, climate adaptation and mitigation, and self-determined well-being

Start: 01.11.2025
MyTitle: AlterCultivaS - Alternative production systems to support deforestation-free supply chains and biodiversity conservation in the Colombian Amazon and beyond
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AlterCultivaS - Alternative production systems to support deforestation-free supply chains and biodiversity conservation in the Colombian Amazon and beyond

Start: 01.11.2025
MyTitle: BOENLE - Vigna beans and more – Screening of subtropical legume species for cultivation in Germany
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BOENLE - Vigna beans and more – Screening of subtropical legume species for cultivation in Germany

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People of the research area

 

Co-Heads

Prof. Dr. agr.
Sonoko Dorothea Bellingrath-Kimura

T +49 (0)33432 82-207

Prof. Dr. Bettina Matzdorf
T +49 (0)33432 82-207
T +49 (0)33432 82-150

 

Administration

Dr. Verena Toussaint
T +49 (0)33432 82-323

Secretary’s office

Viola Kranich
T +49 (0)33432 82-207
F +49 (0)33432 82-308

Sabrina Weinert
T +49 (0)33432 82-170

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Leibniz-Zentrum für
Agrarlandschaftsforschung (ZALF) e. V.

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