Why is ecoagriculture defined at a landscape scale?
A landscape is a cluster of local ecosystems with a particular configuration of topography, vegetation, land use, and settlement. The goals of ecoagriculture – to maintain biodiversity and ecosystem services, manage agricultural production sustainably, and contribute to improved livelihoods among rural people – cannot be achieved at just a farm or plot level, but are linked at the landscape scale. Therefore, to make impact, we must consider all of the elements of a landscape as a whole. How a landscape is defined depends on the local context. Landscapes may be defined or delimited by natural, historical, and/or cultural processes, activities or values. Landscapes can incorporate many different features, but all of the various features have some influence or effect on each other. Landscapes can vary greatly in size, from the Congo Basin in west-central Africa where landscapes are often huge because there are vast stretches of apparently undifferentiated land, to western Europe where lan
