Towards an Agroecology of Territories for Sustainable Management of Ecosystem Services: From Observation to Experimentation

This text introduces the workshop “Landscape and Territory Management” at the Agroecology symposium on October 18, 2013. It draws on discussions within the French network for Long Term Ecological Research (SOERE Zones Ateliers) to outline the challenges and conceptual foundations for integrating landscape and territory dimensions into agroecology. The document discusses the need to manage ecosystem services sustainably amid global change, land-use shifts, and societal demands. It highlights the roles of biodiversity conservation, soil fertility, water quality, and pollination across spatial and temporal scales. It also contrasts the scale of individual farm management with collective landscape-level objectives and reviews public policies and research frameworks supporting territorial management and experimentation.