Towards diverse agricultural land uses: socio-ecological implications of European agricultural pathways for a Swiss orchard region.

ABSTRACT: Diverse agricultural land uses are a typical feature of multifunctional landscapes. The uncertain change in the drivers of global land use, such as climate, market and policy technology and demography, challenges the long-term management of agricultural diversification. As these global drivers also affect smaller scales, it is important to capture the traits of regionally specific farm activities to facilitate adaptation to change. By downscaling European shared socioeconomic pathways (SSPs) for agricultural and food systems, combined with representative concentration pathways (RCP) to regionally specific, alternative socioeconomic and climate scenarios, the present study explores the major impacts of the drivers of global land use on regional agriculture by simulating farm-level decisions

SUBMITTER: Nishizawa T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10363045 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature