This chapter analyses the implications of agricultural expansion on landscape multifunctionality in terms of water, and the related functions of agro-ecosystem services. Through manipulation of water stocks and flows, and landscape characteristics it is feasible to transform agricultural land from degraded to intermediate levels of multiple ecosystem services or beyond. The focus is on water balance alteration and within-stream and downstream effects for other users. The chapter highlights the landscape-scale resilience perspective, based on a set of landscape-scale indicators. It analyses three landscapes with rainfed cultivation, all in the tropical, semi-arid and sub-humid zone and under rapid transformation, and concludes that there is still potential to better utilise water functions and ecosystem services in most agricultural systems.
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