ABSTRACT
For landscapes to become resilient, their use needs to be resilient. Norwegian agricultural landscapes have changed significantly since the Second World War, mainly driven by a desire to increase food production, and to make productions more efficient. Historically, access to a variety of resources contributed to a high degree of resilience within farming. While production has been intensified in some regions, it has become marginalized in others, both processes having multiple consequences, for example for diversity of farm productions and resource use. By taking our departure in the concepts of diversity and heterogeneity and three case areas, we show how landscape diversity, heterogeneity and diversity of productions are linked. Decreased production diversity may result in declining resilience, especially when farm input relies on long distance transport. To become more resilient, agricultural production needs to reconnect to local landscapes’ production potentials. Policy makers and consumers play an important role in increasing the resilience of agricultural productions, and thereby landscape resilience.
