Presentation: The Leibniz Center for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) is an institution of the Leibniz Association. With around 500 employees and an annual budget of 40,9 million euros, ZALF conducts research on economically, ecologically and socially sustainable agriculture of the future - together with stakeholders from science, politics and practice. As a contribution to overcoming global challenges such as climate change, food security, biodiversity conservation and resource scarcity, ZALF develop and design crop systems, integrated in their landscape contexts, that combine food security with sustainability. Therefore ZALF process complex landscape data with a unique set of experimental methods, new technologies and models as well as socio-economic approaches. ZALFs research constitutes an integrated systems research: starting from processes in soils and plants to causal relationships on the field and landscape level up to global impacts and complex interactions between landscapes, society and economy. ZALF has offices, laboratories and a research station with locations in Müncheberg (headquarter), Paulinenaue and Dedelow. The scientific director of ZALF is Prof. Dr. Frank Ewert (Univ. Bonn), a leading expert in the field of cropping systems modeling and agroecosystem physiology. The administrative director is Martin Jank. The basic funding is provided by the state of Brandenburg together with the federal government and the other states. ZALF is a member of the Leibniz Association, an umbrella organization linking 96 independent research institutions.
