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Keywords: landscape ecology, analysis of landscape data, analytical results, landscape structure, agroecosystem inputs and outputs, Shannon-Wiener index (crop richness), implications for pattern and process in rural landscapes, goals for creating sustainable rural landscapes, future coupling of natural and subsidized landscape systems (natural ecosystem and agricultural system), managing sustainable rural landscapes