There are many aspects to consider when managing agricultural landscapes: biophysical processes, human intervention and socio-economic processes. How do all these processes play together and how can this be modelled? What are the main feedbacks to consider from your own research or application perspective?
This question is of interest to me as well. Even, I have been pondering over this important issue.
check this links maybe help you
Article Designing Agricultural Landscapes for Biodiversity-Based Eco...
https://www.reseau-payote.fr/sites/reseau-payote.fr/files/Payote-2014-EN.pdf
Article Aversion and Crop Complexity Empirical Test of an Agricultur...
https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1484&context=graddis
https://www.thuenen.de/en/bd/fields-of-activity/biodiversity-in-agricultural-landscapes/
The question starts with 'modelling', the explanation introduces 'managing' and one of the answer raises 'design'. Starting the later, few farming landscapes have been designed. Examples of designed farm landscapes are polders (e.g. NL, DE, IT), irrigated lands downstream of reservoirs (e.g. Mariental, Namibia), land consolidation projects (landscape redesign) and post-revolutionary land reform (e.g. kolchoz) . The next level, managing seems largely fictitious for private land.
As a working hypothesis, designed agrarian landscapes show (i) more separation of planted tree, crop and grass, (ii) larger blocks of each component and (iii) little land reserved for spontaneous vegetation and wildlife developments. The latter needs more systematic attention from my perspective as practitioner.
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