The Department of Agroecology carry out basic, strategic and applied research in issues regarding the interaction between climate, soil, plants, animals and people in agro-ecosystems with a focus on promoting health, sustainability and environmentally friendly production of food, feed, energy and bio-based products. We contribute to sustainable production and growth through research, consulting and teaching. Our vision is to remain among the elite of research institutions dealing with agro-ecosystems, and will create, develop and translate cutting-edge knowledge to advance the bioeconomy of the community nationally as well as internationally.

In the MONALISA project Aarhus University role is to leverage on Digital data and innovations and models to develop tools with predictive capabilities to monitor Land Degradation and Desertification. With the skills in process-based simulation models and precision agriculture the Aarhus team will contribute to the consortium in building such a model and to be transparent and reproducible for scientific purposes.