Introducing the Europe-LAND farming typologies: Tailored insights for policymaking, research, and sustainable development

Registration is now open for our next free webinar on 8 June.

This webinar will introduce Europe-LAND’s new farming typologies, aimed at typecasting farms based on the land-use decisions taken regarding crop choices, as opposed to existing approaches that consider farm size and specialization. Our typologies are based on crop choices: per field, per farm. Built using self-organizing maps and a collated spatial dataset covering 4.3 million farms and their fields, our data shows how farmers typically compose their crop portfolio and indicates where intensive and low-intensive cropping takes place. We will share how this approach can guide targeted environmental/land-use policies in areas of very intensive mono-cultivation, be used to learn more about where and why diversified farms exist, and to test if e.g. farm and field size is related to farm types.