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Background concepts of landscape and territory agronomy

Davide Rizzo

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Agriculture faces big challenges, such as feeding a growing population and providing an increasing panel of ecosystem services. However, concurrent changes in either the land use (e.g., urban sprawl), the land system structure (e.g., innovative crop-livestock integration) or the production practices (e.g., the agroecology transition of production systems) occur unevenly in space and over time. Yet, land is a limited resource and agriculture seems to have attained the peak for major productions. Hence, neither the expansion nor the intensification of current production systems could answer the expectations, also because of the deprecated trade-offs on natural resources. Altogether, the development of smarter spatial configurations of agricultural activities appears to be the most effective way to address all of these rapid and wide dynamics. Accordingly, agronomy is urged to develop a landscape perspective to improve the understanding of farming evolutions and to inform future scenarios. In this lecture, we will describe the conceptual model proposed by “landscape agronomy” and how it can help to understand interactions between farming practices, landscape patterns and natural resources. In addition, we will compare it with the “territory” concept underpinning a participatory action science that addresses the relations between different land users and managers in the design of future rural land systems. Finally, we will apply the aforementioned concepts to the comparison of some land management units to stress the role of a landscape-oriented approach to farming system design.

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Agronomie
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Davide Rizzo. Background concepts of landscape and territory agronomy. Doctoral. Spring School Landscape and Territory Agronomy, Pisa, Italy. 2015. ⟨hal-03979613⟩
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