Agronomists are faced to the multiple stakeholders’ landscape design as a rising issue in the management of farming systems. Furthermore, the European Landscape Convention (ELC) has formally acknowledged the expectations of local stakeholders and decision-makers for a greater support to protect, manage and plan the landscapes. A renewed perspective of agronomy on landscape research has recently tried to tackle this challenge. This perspective, called “landscape agronomy” (LA), strives to widen again the agronomic spatial focus beyond the field or the farm to the landscape. For that, LA has proposed a conceptual model of agricultural landscapes to relate farming practices and natural resources with the continuous reshaping of land use patterns operated by farmers. Interpreting the ELC landscape definition accordingly, we consider that the character of agricultural landscapes results uppermost from farming practices. On this underpinning assumption we have further developed the LA conceptual model to characterize some land management units of rural spaces. Our aim is to articulate landscape management with farming systems. In this paper, after a short presentation of the LA conceptual model, we analyze the agricultural landscape features as example of elementary management unit. Finally, we discuss how the landscape management by farming systems can help to structure the interaction of agronomy with other disciplines, such as geography and landscape ecology. _______________ suggested citation: Rizzo D, Marraccini E, Debolini M, Lardon S, Rapey H, Thenail C, Benoît M (2012) How the landscape agronomy framework can enhance the landscape management of farming systems? 10th European Symposium of the International Farming System Association. Aarhus (Denmark). http://bit.ly/15Ejlsk

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How can landscape management be enhanced by farming systems?
A landscape agronomy perspective
D Rizzo • E Marraccini • S Lardon • H Rapey • M Debolini • C Thenail • M Benoît

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WHO | A group of agronomists…
•At the interface between different disciplines agro-ecology, landscape-ecology, geoagronomy, hydrogeology, planning…
•Involved in doctoral schools on landscape agronomy  Rapey et al. IFSA 2008, Moonen et al. IFSA 2010 + Lardon et al. IFSA 2012

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•In which way agricultural changes are impacting on landscapes?
•How can different agricultural systems contribute to landscape conservation?
WHY | …facing new challenges
•what kind of framework and criteria to increase environmental efficiency of agricultural policy ?
•What types of agricultural “models” and politics for landscape conservation ?
for agronomists et al. :
for society & planners :

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WHAT | a focus on landscape…
need to explain
Place for natural resources to support farming practices and designed by them (land pattern)
Landscape as a multi-actors and multi-activities space
"Landscape" means an area, as perceived by people, whose character is the result of the action and interaction of natural and/or human factors
historico-political changes  ELC art. 1a
changes in agronomy  landscape agronomy
socio-economical changes  multifunctional agricultural landscapes

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HOW | …. with a LA model
A landscape agronomy approach to explain the configuration of “agricultural spatial entities”
 stakeholders & farmers’ perspectives
Benoit et al, under review (LE)
Moonen et al. 2010 + Lardon et al. 2012
territory agronomy
landscape agronomy

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EXAMPLE 1 | stakeholders’ perspective
cf Marraccini et al. IFSA 2012
catchment protection area
water agency boundaries
municipal boundaries
single farm plots
other plots
woods, hedges
land management issues (territoire)

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EXAMPLE 2 | farmers’ perspective
agricultural landscape features (ALF)

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RELATION 1 | existing models
van Ittersum & Rabbinge 1997
Daalgard et al. 2003
crop management
crop sequences
environmental spatial processes
agro- environmental processes
spatial farming management processes
Benoît, Deffontaines, Lardon 2006
 actors, activities, «territoires»

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RELATIONS 2 | proposed models
complementarity
multiple (non hierarchical) scales
socio-economical context
role of actors & resources (cf. ELC art. 1)
Pinto-Correia & Kristensen
Pinto-Correia, Madeira, Carvalho Ribeiro
(Holmes 2006)

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How the landscape agronomy framework can enhance the landscape management of farming systems? Rizzo et al. | workshop 5.1 Contact person during the Symposium: DAVIDE RIZZO | ridavide@gmail.com