Speakers
Description
Sustainable, multifunctional and climate-resilient agricultural landscapes can play an important role for achieving many of the SDGs and for mitigating global crises. The Subtopic 5 (mainly UFZ integrated platform project IP 6.1.) deals with political and socio-economic sphere of the agri-food system, and the overall quest to govern a transformation towards sustainable agricultural landscapes. It is complemented by Subtopic 1 (UFZ IP1) dealing with the impact of agricultural land use on ecosystem services. The research involves a wide range of interdisciplinary contributions that investigate, inter alia, the multi-dimensional impacts of agricultural practices on ecosystem functions and biodiversity, the role of farmer behaviour and industry actors, local and regional innovation, the design of national and EU policies, and international trade relations and regulations. This session serves to stimulate discussion on how the different research elements can be better linked within a coherent “story” and/or framework, and to generate ideas for integrative collaboration within and across research units and centers.
- Introduction (Julian Rode, UFZ)
- he role of visions in sustainability transformations: Exploring tensions between the Agrarwende vanguard vision and an established sociotechnical imaginary of agriculture in Germany (Christine Polzin, UFZ)
- Sustainable agriculture at the core of a polycrisis: Why is it so urgent and what is the role of science? (Guy Peer, iDiv)
- How can a national biodiversity strategy contribute to a social-ecological transformation? (Yves Zinngrebe, UFZ)
- Motivated but restricted? Conceptualizing external barriers to adopting sustainable agricultural practices (Malin Sophie Gütschow, UFZ)
- Zukunftsfähige Agrarlandschaften in Deutschland – praktische Maßnahmen und ihre Wirksamkeit im Vergleich (Jessica Stubenrauch, UFZ)
- Convenient solutions, inconvenient truths - Why supermarkets will not drive food system transformation (Sina Leipold, UFZ)
