Key projects results are the assessment of the contribution of agrobiodiversity to the economic resilience of the agriculture sector and the valuation of policies for the conservation of agrobiodiversity. The econometric analysis explores whether long run agricultural productivity is affected by agrobiodiversity at both local scale and regional scale. Agrobiodiversity is measured by richness of agricultural land cover types, their abundance and the Shannon index. We found that agrobiodiversity significantly affects farmland values and the effect is often nonlinear , and that the impact of regional agrobiodiversity is larger than the impact of local agrobiodiversity. These complex effects are introduced into ICES CGE model to determine how the economy would respond if agrobiodiversity was increased by about 10%. Results show substantial economic impacts on the agricultural sector, although they differ greatly among measures of agrobiodiversity and their scale. Direct impact propagates to the whole economy affecting considerably the food industry and the services sector of the region where the change occurs, but also of the neighboring regions.
Adaptation to climate change
Soil health and foodAddressing target audiences and expressing needs
- To raise awareness and possibly influence policy
- Collaboration
- Fellowship to advance my/our research
The results obtained by the analysis are richer than originally expected. Outcomes are firstly of academic relevance. Results have also strong policy implications. Additional funds, a research infrastructure and/or collaboration with other research insitution would allow to broaden and deepen the research. In addition we would like to reach policy makers to raise their knowledge and awareness on the importance of tailoring agrobiodiversity policy to the specific regional conditions.
- EU and Member State Policy-makers
- International Organisations (ex. OECD, FAO, UN, etc.)
- Academia/ Universities
Result submitted to Horizon Results Platform by FONDAZIONE CENTRO EURO-MEDITERRANEOSUI CAMBIAMENTI CLIMATICI

