A key issue for European agricultural policy is to maintain farmland for conservation of biodiversity and production of public goods while meeting the challenges of an increasingly global food market. Ecological intensification, i.e., increasing production by promoting supporting and regulating ecosystem services, has been proposed as a sustainable alternative to industrial intensification.

MULTAGRI investigates how governance of agricultural landscapes can promote rural development by harnessing landscape and biological diversity as assets that synergistically contribute to the production of public goods and sustainability of agricultural production.

Link to the project website. The project runs until summer 2017.