Main subject area: Agroforestry and biodiversity
The need for sustainable agricultural production is evident both nationally and internationally, as reflected in the latest European agricultural policy. Agroforestry is recognized as a sustainable food production system both for adaptation of and mitigating of climate change, also by FAO who in 2022 emphasized agroforestry as a tool for future food security. Agroforestry has the potential to improve biodiversity and important ecosystem services compared to monoculture farming, but little is known about agroforestry in a Danish context.
BEAT will investigate agroforestry in a Danish context. Future agricultural production systems will be assessed according to other parameters than today, including climate and biodiversity. Agroforestry can potentially prepare farmers and give them the tools to achieve good results on both parameters, but it requires development of concrete, precise and practical methods for calculating these effects.
BEAT will provide research-based knowledge and instructions for
calculating the effect of agroforestry in the for hedgerows on biodiversity.
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April 2024 - July 2027
Dpt. Ecoscience, C.F. Møllers Allé 4, 8000 Aarhus C; Field sites in Jutland
30 ECTS: Theoretical thesis based on literature studies and/or analysis of issued and edited data sets.
45 ECTS: Experimental thesis in which the student is responsible for collection and analysis of his/her own original data.
60 ECTS: Experimental thesis in which the student is responsible for planning, trial design and collection and analysis of his/her own original data.
Possibilities for field work or more theoretical approaches, e.g. multivariate analyses of available data.
