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Project
Transformative visions and agroecological approaches for more biodiversity in agricultural landscapes (TRANSFORM)
Transformative visions and agroecological approaches for more biodiversity in agricultural landscapes (TRANSFORM)
Specialisation and intensification of food production have transformed agriculture triggering a farmland biodiversity crisis. As the loss of farmland biodiversity undermines the basis of agroecosystems’ productivity and, hence, the sustainability of food systems, another transformation is urgently needed. To support this transformation, we define visions of the future and agroecological approaches with the aim to guide policy toward establishing agricultural land systems in which farmland biodiversity and agriculture are mutually promotive.
Background and Objective
We aim to find responses to the following research questions:
- Which targeted agroecological actions can we swiftly implement to enhance farmland biodiversity while ensuring adequate agricultural production?
- Under which conditions do existing biodiversity and agricultural policies provide effective incentives to sustainably transform agricultural land systems?
- Which archetypical interactions between agriculture, biodiversity, resource use and governance characterise agricultural land systems in Germany?
- Which potential do archetypes demonstrate to foster the transfer and out/up-scaling of policy measures that halt and reverse the current farmland biodiversity decline?
Thünen-Contact
Involved Thünen-Partners
Duration
Permanent task 1.2021
More Information
Project status:
ongoing
Publications
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Sietz D, Niamir A, Müller D, Hickler T, Kanemoto K, Moran DD, Thonicke K (2025) Mapping human-nature archetypes to guide global biodiversity, food security, and land-use policy. One Earth 8(8):101416, DOI:10.1016/j.oneear.2025.101416
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Orozco R, Meyer-Jürshof M, Vergara K, Václavic T, Sietz D (2024) Dynamic archetypes of agricultural land systems in Germany 1992-2019. In: Global Land Programme's 5th Open Science Meeting "Pathways to Sustainable and Just Land Systems" : 4.-8.11.2024, Oaxaca, Mexico.
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Orozco R, Meyer-Jürshof M, Vergara-Rodríguez K, Václavík T, Sietz D (2024) Dynamic archetypes of agricultural land systems in Germany from 1992 to 2019. Land Use Pol 145:107281, DOI:10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107281
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Sietz D, Klimek S, Dauber J (2023) Angepasste Pfade können agrarökologische Aktion und Politik zur Biodiversitätsförderung anregen. Braunschweig: Thünen-Institut für Biodiversität, 1 p, Project Brief Thünen Inst 2023/19, DOI:10.3220/PB1678196023000
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Sietz D, Klimek S, Dauber J (2023) Tailored pathways can inspire agroecological action and policy to revive farmland biodiversity. Braunschweig: Thünen Institute of Biodiversity, 1 p, Project Brief Thünen Inst 2023/19a, DOI:10.3220/PB1678196213000
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Sietz D, Klimek S, Dauber J (2022) Tailored pathways toward revived farmland biodiversity can inspire agroecological action and policy to transform agriculture. Comm Earth Environ 3:211, DOI:10.1038/s43247-022-00527-1
