Projects - dr.ir. FJJA (Felix) Bianchi

Below a list of some of the projects in which I have been involved:

• Farmer acceptable restoration of semi-natural Habitat to limit herbicides (Biodiversa).
• Disentangling the ecological drivers linked to natural biological control of the coffee berry borer (PE&RC).
• Interactions between landscape, insecticides, and ecosystem services in China cotton (CAAS).
• Coexistence of agriculture and nature: ordination and planning for integrated ecosystem services (University Fund Wageningen).
• Habitat diversification for reduced dependency on pesticides in Chinese agriculture (CAAS).
• Crop diversification effects on biodiversity: restoring arable food webs by strip cropping (Wageningen Research).
• Diversification for strengthening ecosystem services in orchards in China (CAAS).
• Ecological intensification pathways for vegetable production systems in South Uruguay (WOTRO).
• Predicting predator activity in crop fields based on species-level information of floral resource distribution (Alexander van Humboldt Foundation).
• Tipping the system: the difficult transition from chemical towards natural pest control in agriculture (NWO). 
• Enhancing landscape eco-efficiencies through optimization of multiple ecosystem services along an Amazonian post-forest frontier in Paragominas, Brazil (AGTRAIN).
• Land use change and ecosystems services across time: learning from the past and projecting sustainable future in Brazil (INREF).
• Connecting biodiversity and ecosystem services: towards more sustainable agroecosystems in Brazil (INREF).
• Landscape composition, stem borers incidence and farming practices: sustainable intensification of maize-based farming systems in Hawassa, Ethiopia (CIMMYT).
• Living landscapes: recognizing and strengthening the contribution of ecosystem services (biological control, pollination) to crop yields, food security and farmer income in China (NWO).
• Linking local and landscape scale trophic interactions for plant-induced biological control of insect pests (NWO).
• Exploiting knowledge on habitats used by arthropods to predict value of ecosystem services in agro-landscapes (NWO).
• Alternatives to slash and burn for smallholder farmers through integrated crop-livestock-tree systems in the Brazilian Amazon (CIRAD).