ABSTRACT
Extraordinary changes are occurring in landscape architecture's relationships to agriculture. This chapter is about that change. Large-scale agriculture has been moving from an overriding premise of food production to considering biodiversity, management of water resources, the protection of soil structure and fertility for future productivity and carbon sequestration, greening corridors for connecting biodiversity and for ease of animal passage, and pockets of habitat for local endemic species. Agriculture continues as the world's oldest and most significant constructed ecology and one of the oldest cultural activities in the world. Today agriculture is again at a major crossroads and experiencing a crisis in how we farm. Farmers and rural communities are tackling the massive challenge of juggling ambitions upon which all humanity depends – looking after the food, the land, the water, the atmosphere and the wildlife, and much of the economy. Climate change has forced us to innovate in the past and is forcing us to do so again.
