Skip Ribbon Commands
Skip to main content
Suche
Breadcrumb Navigation

Research Area 2 "Land Use and Governance"

Hauptinhalt der Seite
​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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.

More ...

 

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).

Icon SDG 2 Icon SDG 3 Icon SDG 6 Icon SDG 12 Icon SDG 13 Icon SDG 14 Icon SDG 15

 

Working groups in research area 2 

 

 

News

Title: Tatiana Rodríguez Torres defends doctoral dissertation on agroforestry scaling at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
MehrLink: https://www.zalf.de/en/aktuelles/Pages/PB2/Erfolgreiche_Verteidigung_Rodriguez_HUB.aspx, More
MyLinkPDFUrl:
MyTextfeld:
MyMeldungsdatum: 2025-08-26 08:00:00
MyLabels:
Struktureinheiten:Label:
During the presentation
26.08.2025

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
MehrLink: https://www.zalf.de/en/aktuelles/Pages/PB2/Verteidigung_Benito_Schoepke.aspx, More
MyLinkPDFUrl:
MyTextfeld:
MyMeldungsdatum: 2025-08-06 08:00:00
MyLabels:
Struktureinheiten:Label:
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: “Productive Region” exhibition brings agriculture to the city
MehrLink: https://www.zalf.de/en/aktuelles/Pages/PB2/Produktive_Region.aspx, More
MyLinkPDFUrl:
MyTextfeld:
MyMeldungsdatum: 2025-06-19 08:00:00
MyLabels:
Struktureinheiten:Label:
Interspaces © Sandra Schäfer, 2024
19.06.2025

“Productive Region” exhibition brings agriculture to the city

More news

 

 

Publications

MyTitle: From vulnerability to viability: climate-smart agriculture as drivers of productivity and food security in Nigerian maize-based farming households
MyLinkAnsehenUrl: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667010025001878?via%3Dihub, Resolve DOI name
MyLinkPDFUrl:
MyTitelMehrzeilig:
MyTextfeld:
MyAutoren: Kolapo, A., Sieber, S. (2025)
MyMeldungsdatum:
MyLabels:
Struktureinheiten:Label: NewWindow:

From vulnerability to viability: climate-smart agriculture as drivers of productivity and food security in Nigerian maize-based farming households

Kolapo, A., Sieber, S. (2025)
MyTitle: Diverging agri-environmental, social and economic impacts when diversifying Mediterranean farming systems
MyLinkAnsehenUrl: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301479725030166?via%3Dihub, Resolve DOI name
MyLinkPDFUrl:
MyTitelMehrzeilig:
MyTextfeld:
MyAutoren: Rezgui, F., Lehnhardt, F., Blanc, L., Plaza-Bonilla, D., Lampurlanés, J., Dordas, C., Papakaloudis, P., Michalitsis, A., Latati, M., Raggas, A., Bellingrath-Kimura, S. D., Paul, C., Reckling, M. (2025)
MyMeldungsdatum:
MyLabels:
Struktureinheiten:Label: NewWindow:

Diverging agri-environmental, social and economic impacts when diversifying Mediterranean farming systems

Rezgui, F., Lehnhardt, F., Blanc, L., Plaza-Bonilla, D., Lampurlanés, J., Dordas, C., Papakaloudis, P., Michalitsis, A., Latati, M., Raggas, A., Bellingrath-Kimura, S. D., Paul, C., Reckling, M. (2025)
MyTitle: Reinforce lake water balance component estimations by integrating water isotope compositions with a hydrological model
MyLinkAnsehenUrl: https://hess.copernicus.org/articles/29/3993/2025/, Resolve DOI name
MyLinkPDFUrl:
MyTitelMehrzeilig:
MyTextfeld:
MyAutoren: Mahmoodi, N., Hwang, H. T., Struck, U., Schneider, M., Merz, C. (2025)
MyMeldungsdatum:
MyLabels:
Struktureinheiten:Label: NewWindow:

Reinforce lake water balance component estimations by integrating water isotope compositions with a hydrological model

Mahmoodi, N., Hwang, H. T., Struck, U., Schneider, M., Merz, C. (2025)

Projects

MyTitle: VALPRO Path - New VALue landscapes for plant PROtein Pathways
MyLinkAnsehenUrl: https://www.zalf.de/en/forschung_lehre/projekte/Pages/details.aspx?iddp=2311, Take a look
MyLinkPDFUrl:
MyTitelMehrzeilig:
MyTextfeld: Start: 01.09.2022
MyAutoren:
MyMeldungsdatum:
MyLabels:
Struktureinheiten:Label: NewWindow:

VALPRO Path - New VALue landscapes for plant PROtein Pathways

Start: 01.09.2022
MyTitle: SULU - Safeguarding overlooked Ecosystems: Protect, Manage and Restore Grasslands and Savannahs in Argentina, Colombia and Paraguay
MyLinkAnsehenUrl: https://www.zalf.de/en/forschung_lehre/projekte/Pages/details.aspx?iddp=2425, Take a look
MyLinkPDFUrl:
MyTitelMehrzeilig:
MyTextfeld: Start: 01.01.2024
MyAutoren:
MyMeldungsdatum:
MyLabels:
Struktureinheiten:Label: NewWindow:

SULU - Safeguarding overlooked Ecosystems: Protect, Manage and Restore Grasslands and Savannahs in Argentina, Colombia and Paraguay

Start: 01.01.2024
MyTitle: U-Cycle - a citizen science project on the acceptance and effect of urine-based recycling fertilizers in urban horticulture
MyLinkAnsehenUrl: https://www.zalf.de/en/forschung_lehre/projekte/Pages/details.aspx?iddp=2419, Take a look
MyLinkPDFUrl:
MyTitelMehrzeilig:
MyTextfeld: Start: 01.02.2024
MyAutoren:
MyMeldungsdatum:
MyLabels:
Struktureinheiten:Label: NewWindow:

U-Cycle - a citizen science project on the acceptance and effect of urine-based recycling fertilizers in urban horticulture

Start: 01.02.2024

 

  

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

E-Mail Sekretariat Programmbereich 2 

 

Address

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

Eberswalder Straße 84
15374 Mü​ncheberg​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Fusszeile der Seite
Wordpress icon
Instagram icon
YouTube icon
ResearchGate icon
Mastodon icon
Bluesky icon
LinkedIn icon
© Leibniz-Zentrum für Agrarlandschaftsforschung (ZALF) e. V. Müncheberg

Funded by:

BMLEH logo
MWFK logo