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Development of a planning and consulting tool for acquiring and promoting biodiversity in intensively used arable farming regions (Biodiversity Business Plan)
Project
Project code: A02/2017
Contract period: 01.10.2017
- 30.04.2019
Purpose of research: Applied research
Keywords: biodiversity, consultation, agricultural landscape, wild plants, agricultural environmental and climate means
The agricultural intensification in recent decades has resulted in a sharp decline in agrobiodiversity and the loss of many landscape features and structures in the agricultural landscape. The agricultural policy instruments such as agri-environmental schemes (AES) have had little effects so far. This is mostly due to a wrong installation, implementation and maintenance of AES. In addition, the motivation of farmers to participate in such measures needs to be increased.
In order to be able to optimally integrate the promotion of agrobiodiversity into farming processes, it is necessary to set up planning and advisory instruments so that ecologically reasonable and economically feasible measures can be developed and implemented. In future digital technologies will also have to be increasingly used for this purpose. Some federal states (e.g. Lower Saxony, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saxony), already implemented business plans to promote biodiversity on farms. These plans evaluate existing structures and species occurrences and develop a business and farm-specific catalogue of measures to improve biodiversity on their farmland.
This project aims to develop planning, assessment and advisory tools and instruments which are specially adapted to the intensively used arable farming region of Saxony-Anhalt. In order to achieve this aim, the project was divided into six sub-modules:
1. Development of an assessment tool to determine the status quo of agrobiodiversity
2. Development of algorithms to evaluate former achievements to promote agrobiodiversity with regard to strengths and weaknesses
3. Derivation of farm-specific development goals
4. Development of a measure tool
5. Development of an assessment tool for evaluation and optimization of measures
6. Knowledge transfer of the results to the agricultural practice
Section overview
Subjects
- Agroecology
- Genetic Resources
Funding programme
Excutive institution
Department of Agriculture, Ecotrophology and Landscape Development
