Multifunctional agriculture: Harnessing biodiversity for sustaining agricultural production and ecosystem services

Project: Research

Project Details

Description

SAPES was a research environment combining ecological and socio-economic research. Our goals were to increase the understanding of interactions between farmer’s choices, agricultural land-use, biodiversity and ecosystem services, and to create state-of-the-art decision support tools to aid adaptive governance of agro-ecosystems.
Short titleSAPES
AcronymSAPES
StatusFinished
Effective start/end date2010/01/012015/12/31

Collaborative partners

  • Lund University (lead)
  • Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala
  • Stockholm Resilience Center
  • Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
  • Stockholm University

Funding

  • FORMAS, The Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning