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DIVERCROP Land system dynamics in the

Mediterranean basin across scales as relevant indicator for species diversity

and local food systems(2017 – 2020)

Coordinators: Claude Napoleone and Marta DeboliniINRA, Avignon, France

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CONSORTIUM

• Partner 1 (Coordinator): INRA Ecodéveloppement, Avignon - France

• Partner 2: University of Évora – Portugal

• Partner 3: CNRS/IMBE, Aix-Marseille – France

• Partner 4: Institut Polytechnique LaSalle Beauvais-Esitpa – France

• Partner 5: Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - Tunisie

• Partner 6: Laboratoire RNAMS – Algeria

• Partner 7: Malta College of Arts, Science and Technology – Malta

Project starting date: 23 March 2017

Project ending date: 22 March 2020

Overall budget: 1 158 000 € - ARIMNet2 funding: 520 000 €

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CONTEXT & CHALLENGE ADDRESSED1) a large diversity of Mediterranean farming systems

Farming Systems

A very long history of land use, with a mixture of farming systems

(pastoralism, extensive rainfed cropping, intensive irrigated cropping,

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CONTEXT & CHALLENGE ADDRESSED2) the Mediterranean: hotspot for specific biodiversity

Taxonomic Group Species Endemic Species Percent Endemism

Plants 22,500 11,700 52.0

Mammals 226 25 11.1

Birds 489 25 5.1

Reptiles 230 77 33.5

Amphibians 79 27 34.2

Freshwater Fishes 216 63 29.2

High level of

endemism

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CONTEXT & CHALLENGE ADDRESSED3) Traditionnal Mediterranean agriculture allows

biodiversity conservation• Animals, trees, fields, semi-natural ecosystems, often mixed• Extensive systems:

⇒ support a specific and functional biodiversity, ⇒ support functional biodiversity

Blondel et al. (2010): An exceptional richness of annual plant species in the Mediterranean flora due to long-standing but constantly changing human activities and heavily grazed areas.

Agriculture Biodiversity

Bifora Testiculata

Adonis Aestivalis

Consolida Pubescens

Consolida Pubescens

Soil Biodiversity

Inula

viscosa

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CONTEXT & CHALLENGE ADDRESSED4) Local food systems are better maintained by mixed

farming systems

Which surfaces are oriented to local market ?

Consolida Pubescens

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CONTEXT & CHALLENGE ADDRESSED5) Various land use change occuring in the Mediterranean

Consolida Pubescens

1956

2008

1949

2003

Abandonment, intensification, urbanisation

… and new multifunctional

agriculture areas

Languedoc Andalusia Provence

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PROJECT OBJECTIVES

Objective 1• Analyze the land system dynamics in the Mediterranean Basin

and to identify their main drivers at different scales

Objective 2• Modeling land system changes and their effects on

environmental patterns as a result of agricultural practices and

species diversity in agricultural landscapes

Objective 3• Assess the link between identified environmental patterns and

the capacity of the agricultural systems to contribute to the

local food system

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SCIENTIFIC APPROACH1) a multi-scale approach

Spatial detail

Driving forces of land system dynamics

- Land systems typologies

- Land systems changes

- Drivers of land system dynamics

Global level

Land system assessment and

evaluation

Assessment of diversity

- Pattern of land systems at WMB level

- Assessment of species diversity

- Assessment of food systems diversity

- Assessment of changes at WMB level

Landscape level

Selection

of case studies Land system dynamics at local level

- Management characterization

- Land systems trajectories

- Local food systems

- Assessment of future changes in land

systems

Local level

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SCIENTIFIC APPROACH

2) articulation of global and local scales

Land

systems

diversity at

WMB level

Study areas

sampling

Comprehensive

database

Species

diversity at

WMB level

Biodiversity

indicators

Land system dynamics

at local level

- Assessment

and mapping of

the ability of

land systems to

promote local

food systems

- Scenarios of

food systems

changeAbility to promote

food systems

Land systems

indicators

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Work Packages

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Data recovering and

exploring (pre-

processing)

Homogeneous database

about land systems on

WMB

Statistical modelling

and spatial analysis

of land systems

diversity

Current land systems

dynamics and mapping

of agricultural diversity

biodiversity models Mapping of biodiversity

indicators

Detailed data

recovering (field

work and interviews),

qualitative social

approaches

Local constraints for

upscaling and

downscaling relations of

land and food systems

Food planning

framework

Mapping of an indicator

of local ability to develop

food systems

Methods OutputsWP1

Comprehensive

database building

WP2

Land

system

dynamics

and

drivers

WP3

Assessment

of species

diversity

WP4

Land system dynamics

assessment at local scale

WP5

Assessment of local

ability to develop food

systems

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EXPECTED RESULTS / IMPACT &

INNOVATION POTENTIAL� Results

• Homogeneous database about land systems on WMB

• Current land systems dynamics and mapping of agricultural

diversity

• Mapping of biodiversity indicators

• Local constraints for upscaling and downscaling relations of land

and food systems

• Mapping of an indicator of local ability to develop food systems

• Science-policy interface, progress in the understanding and co-

construction by science and society of land systems that support

both biodiversity and socio-economical sustainability

• Multi-scale articulation including the whole western North and South

Mediterranean region

� Impacts

� Innovation

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