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We examine agriculture and its actors in their interaction with the surrounding landscape and the agri-food system. We analyse transformations at regional scale and integrate prospective perspectives. We develop cooperative strategies for more sustainable agricultural landscape systems together with stakeholders.
Our research questions are: How do new systems develop and what contribution can they make at landscape level to achieve sustainability objectives? Which determinants and patterns do they follow? How to coordinate and strengthen them via urban-rural interaction?
We strive to methodological advance on spatial impact relationships between natural and socio-economic systems. We apply choice experiments, Agent Based Modelling (ABM), foodshed assessments and impact modelling. Transdisciplinary research is conducted for outscaling and upscaling innovations and for regionally designed governance strategies and incentives.
