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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: Tatiana Rodríguez Torres defends doctoral dissertation on agroforestry scaling at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
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Tatiana Rodríguez Torres defends doctoral dissertation on agroforestry scaling at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

Title: Benito Schöpke earns PhD on biodiversity between cropland and dry grassland
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Dr. Benito Schöpke (middle) and Prof. Monika Wulf (on his right) after the successful defense of his dissertation at University of Potsdam
06.08.2025

Benito Schöpke earns PhD on biodiversity between cropland and dry grassland

Title: Extraordinary PB2 general meeting
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Extraordinary PB2 general meeting

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Publications

MyTitle: Integrating remote sensing and machine learning to evaluate environmental drivers of post-fire vegetation recovery in the Mount Kenya forest
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MyAutoren: Otieno, L. A., Otieno, T. A., Rotich, B., Löhr, K., Kipkulei, H. K. (2025)
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Integrating remote sensing and machine learning to evaluate environmental drivers of post-fire vegetation recovery in the Mount Kenya forest

Otieno, L. A., Otieno, T. A., Rotich, B., Löhr, K., Kipkulei, H. K. (2025)
MyTitle: Historical and projected forest cover changes in the Mount Kenya Ecosystem: Implications for sustainable forest management
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MyAutoren: Rotich, B., Ahmed, A., Kinyili, B., Kipkulei, H. (2025)
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Historical and projected forest cover changes in the Mount Kenya Ecosystem: Implications for sustainable forest management

Rotich, B., Ahmed, A., Kinyili, B., Kipkulei, H. (2025)
MyTitle: Framing the relationship between justice and ecosystem services: A systematic review
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MyAutoren: Locatelli, B., Benra, F., Geneletti, D., Loft, L., Loos, J., Schröter, B., Winkler, K., Zoderer, B. M. (2025)
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Framing the relationship between justice and ecosystem services: A systematic review

Locatelli, B., Benra, F., Geneletti, D., Loft, L., Loos, J., Schröter, B., Winkler, K., Zoderer, B. M. (2025)

Projects

MyTitle: HEILU - High quality protein feeds from alfalfa – Effects of cultivation and conservation on alfalfa nutritional ingredients using an indirect drying process and optimization of the carbon footprint
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HEILU - High quality protein feeds from alfalfa – Effects of cultivation and conservation on alfalfa nutritional ingredients using an indirect drying process and optimization of the carbon footprint

Start: 06.04.2022
MyTitle: NOVASOIL - Innovative business models for soil health
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NOVASOIL - Innovative business models for soil health

Start: 01.11.2022
MyTitle: TREES - Tropical Restoration Expansion for Ecosystem Services, Accompanying research to Forest Landscape Restoration and Governance in the Forest sector (Forests4Future) Country Package: Ethiopia, Togo, and Madagascar
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TREES - Tropical Restoration Expansion for Ecosystem Services, Accompanying research to Forest Landscape Restoration and Governance in the Forest sector (Forests4Future) Country Package: Ethiopia, Togo, and Madagascar

Start: 01.11.2021

 

  

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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