Exploring the future of farming and biodiversity in agricultural landscapes in Australia. Part 2 About The project ‘The future of farming and biodiversity in agricultural landscapes': The Muttama Creek Catchment area’ seeks to explore options to integrate profitable farming and successful biodiversity conservation in the future (see link).…
Exploring the future of farming and biodiversity in agricultural landscapes in Australia. Part 1 About The project ‘The future of farming and biodiversity in agricultural landscapes': The Muttama Creek Catchment area’ seeks to explore options to integrate profitable farming and successful biodiversity conservation in the future (see link).…
Biocultural diversity is the focus of our research project. It is probably one of the best-known terms whenever something is labelled as ‘biocultural’. You've probably also encountered the terms biocultural heritage, biocultural memory and biocultural conservation. And, in fact, there are many, many more expressions of the term…
Biocultural diversity is the focus of our research project. It is probably one of the best-known terms whenever something is labelled as ‘biocultural’. You've probably also encountered the terms biocultural heritage, biocultural memory and biocultural conservation. And, in fact, there are many, many more expressions of the term…
Last December our project partner Fundacion TIERRA ran a workshop with local leaders from the Chiquitania region in preparation of our field work. The meeting served to present the research project, to identify social-ecological issues and to scope for specific communities to implement the research. In the last…
Last December our project partner Fundación TIERRA ran a workshop with local leaders from the Chiquitania region in preparation of our collaborative research on the field. The meeting intended to present the initial ideas of the research project, to identify the most prominent social-ecological characteristics and problems and…
Many local farmers worldwide gained their knowledge through practices in daily interaction with ecosystems and biodiversity. This knowledge can provide key ideas for transforming agriculture towards a more sustainable and resilient system (Šūmane et al. 2018). Today, I want to share an example of such knowledge that has…
English version below!In unserem Forschungsprojekt beschäftigen wir uns mit biokultureller Diversität in Agrarlandschaften des globalen Südens. Biokulturell bedeutet, die Vielfalt des Lebens in all seinen Erscheinungsformen, inklusive aller ökologischen, kulturellen und sprachlichen Ausprägungen, zu betrachten. Das Konzept wird in der Regel mit der traditionellen Art und Weise in…