Alongside climate change, the decline in biodiversity is one of the great challenges of our time. In the future, agricultural systems will have to meet these challenges even better, i.e. combine nature- and environment-friendly production with a high degree of resilience to changing environmental conditions. These forms of production can be defined, for example, by dispensing with synthetic chemical pesticides or ecological production methods. On the one hand, sustainable agricultural systems can be evaluated in the context of economic, biotic and abiotic indicators. On the other hand, there are also more far-reaching effects, e.g. on the appearance of cultural landscapes through adapted crop rotations and associated cultural measures. In addition to food production, these cultural ecosystem services have a special relevance with regard to public welfare-oriented services of agricultural land use, especially in peri-urban areas. The aim of the project is to analyze the preferences of individual biodiversity-promoting measures or new crop rotation systems of participating actors, among others in interaction with mineral-ecological cultivation systems with findings from the NOcsPS project, in the context of landscape attractiveness and optimal regional coordination, and to demonstrate synergy effects in the process.
The Stuttgart region with its peri-urban areas is the area of investigation for conducting surveys among the population and deriving the landscape models. Using multiple scenarios, future-proof economic, environmental and nature policy recommendations for an even more public welfare-oriented promotion and implementation of nature conservation services in agriculture are to be derived in connection with future agricultural systems, which lead to an added value for society.
