Farming Systems Research studies agricultural systems and their interaction with the natural environment and ecosystems. Agro-ecosystems are highly complex due to the many feedbacks between natural processes, high geographical diversity and human factors involved both as the farmer’s decisions at farm household level and as the policy implementations at regional, national or European levels. Th...

The acronym PABITRA stands for Pacifi c-Asia Biodiversity Transect. PABITRA is a fl exible design of a transect system that connects a number of island areas in the tropical Pacifi c (i.e. Oceania) into a network of sites as living landscapes. The sites include upland/ inland forests, agro-ecosystems, and coastal habitats with coral reefs, which on islands are close together and interconnected ...

In the past decade, a new project of agrarian capitalism has emerged in the Colombian countryside driven by the expansion of commercial agribusinesses, particularly in palm oil. This process is often referred to as an emergent form of agrarian extractivism or land-grabbing. While for the Colombian government, this agro-extractivist project represents one of the main locomotives driving the econ...

Increasing agricultural production, without having a pronounced negative impact on ecosystems, continues to be massive challenge. Interventions in sustainability that improve agro-ecosystems are thus crucial. Current literature focuses concepts, assessment tools, and intervention impacts, yet lacks mechanisms implementation processes. Therefore, this study aims present an framework helps transf...