STOP PUSHING NATURE BACK ?

Contribution of diversified farming

systems to the delivery of ecosystem

services

Contribution of a research to

agricultural transition

Prof. Nicolas DendonckerProf. Marc DufrênePhD Student Fanny Boeraeve

LOCKED INTO DISCIPLINES

INTEGRATED ECOSYSTEM SERVICE

ASSESSMENT

Structure&

ProcessesFunctions Services Benefits Values

Ecosystems & Biodiversity Humans

Biophysical ES assessment Social ES valuation

Are there different synergies and tradeoffs among ES in diversified farming systems?

BIOPHYSICAL ES ASSESSMENT

Agricultural system Ecosystem services

SOCIAL ES ASSESSMENT

People’s satisfaction

Is the stakeholders’ satisfaction different in diversified farming systems?

Agricultural system

STANDARDIZED AND CONTROLLED

CONDITIONS

EXPERIMENTS ON REAL FARMS

FIELD THESIS COMMITTEE

SOME PRELIMINARY OUTCOMES

HOW TO DEAL WITH THIS COMPLEXITY?

MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS

-2 -1 0 1 2

-1.0

-0.5

0.0

0.5

1.0

1.5

PC1 = 60%

PC

2 =

13

%

Farm-set 1CFSFarm-set 1

DFS

Farm-set 2CFS

Farm-set 2DFS

Farm-set 3CFS

Farm-set 3DFS

Biomass

Biodiversity

InfrastructuresQualityH2O

Erosion

• Biophysical ES assessment

• Social ES valuation

Infrastructures(hiker)

Infrastructures(hunter)

Infrastructures(farmers)

Lime

Initial plan