Landscape 2021 - Diversification for Sustainable and Resilient Agriculture

20 - 22 September 2021, Online Conference

 

Landscape 2021 will bring together scientists from across disciplines with key actors to explore whether and how diversity and diversification can contribute to a more sustainable and resilient agriculture. Promising approaches reduce trade-offs between high productivity and use of external resources, the provisioning of ecosystem services, biodiversity and soil health as well as robust economic perspectives, social justice, cultural values and recreational opportunities. We hypothesise that while diversification provides sustainable solutions at different scales, it is the landscape or territoriales scale where synergies and trade-offs between social and environmental objectives become tangible. Conference contributions will include research from natural and social sciences, inter- and transdisciplinary approaches on topics related to the diversification of crop and livestock production systems across scales.

We called for papers and posters about social science and natural science analysis on specific topics of diversification specified in 26 sessions of six systems clusters:

• Cropping and grassland systems
• Farming systems
• Landscape management systems
• Public and private governance systems
• Food systems
• Cross scale systems

A special market place with participation of key actors will be dedicated to presentation and discussion of research products for utilization in practice and policy, such as apps, decision support systems, knowledge systems, new co-operations and the like. (Key actors include farmers, policy representatives and business developing solutions for practice, multipliers and journalists.)

Organisation of post-conference workshops is possible (September 23rd, 2021).

More information is available at: www.landscape2021.org

Conference chairs

Prof. Dr. Frank Ewert, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Germany
Prof. Dr. Peter Feindt, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

Landscape 2021 is supported by the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.