LEGATO
Land-use intensity and ecological engineering – Assessment tools for risks and opportunities in irrigated rice based production systems
| Research question | How to advance long-term sustainable development of South East Asian irrigated rice landscapes? |
Drivers | Social system, climate change, land-use, biodiversity (species pools) |
| Indicators | Plants, pollinators and natural enemies of crop pests; charismatic species of conservation concern; Human Appropriation of Net Primary Productivity – HAN PP |
| Production systems | Landscape wide agriculture dominated by irrigated rice |
| Measures | Landscape scale management, ecological engineering, organic farming, sustainable intensification |
| Country | Vietnam and the Philippines |
| Study sites | 7 landscapes; 4 in Vietnam and 3 in the Philippines |
| Area | Each landscape with a total area of approx 15 x 15 km² |
| Duration | March 2011 to February 2016 |
