Nature does not do simplified landscapes and monocultures. But our quest for specialisation has led to farms comprising minimal enterprises which in turn put soils and ecosystems under extreme pressure and are economically marginal. Turning this on its head, the session will open with a framing of the concepts of ecoregion potential, steady states and transitions, opening up a wide choice of tools available to land managers and how these allow for the optimisation of profitability and ecosystemic health in parallel. This framework allows an informed discussion in which real life experiences from different farms bring the theory to life.

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