Land-CRAFT - Center for Landscape Research in Sustainable Agricultural Futures

Agricultural production is a major driver of regional and global environmental deterioration, while at the climate change jeopardizes agricultural systems. Integrating knowledge on environmental impacts of agriculture on nutrient cycles and its importance as sink and source for greenhouse gases is a prerequisite to support the required transformational change of the agricultural sector as well as to ensure its environmental sustainability. Moreover, while reducing the environmental impacts also strategies for adapting agricultural systems to climate change need to be identified in order to secure food security and farmers livelihoods. These matters need to be addressed urgently. It is the vision of the Center for Landscape Research in Sustainable Agricultural Futures - Land-CRAFT to identify and quantify the multiple environmental as well as socio-economic benefits associated with the change of agricultural practices at farm and landscape scale and while reducing the climate impact of agriculture also to identify opportunities for adaptation.