More and more people outside and inside academic specialisms are becoming aware of the pressing need to halt dramatic losses in biodiversity worldwide.
The EU H2020 project, FRAMEwork is mounting an ambitious response to these critical problems.
The project will create a Biodiversity Sensitive Farming System that will encourage and enable farmers to conserve biodiversity, promote a rebalancing of agriculture in a way
that capitalises on the value of native biodiversity, and
improve the capacity of farming to deliver food and
nutritional security in the face of climate change, disease pandemics and other pressures on the system.
Biodiversity loss
is a global tragedy
happening locally...
Why is agriculture important for biodiversity?
Agriculture covers almost 40% of EU land and 72% of the UK.
Farmland is a key frontier for conserving biodiversity.
Why is biodiversity so important for agriculture?
Biodiversity means healthy ecosystems
healthy ecosystems mean good ecosystem services,
life support systems for our agriculture and the planet.
Working with...
Farmers
Advanced Farmer Clusters - local farmer groups working as a collective to deliver landscape scale management, supported by a Cluster Facilitator with expertise in agriculture and the environment and linked to a local Cluster Stakeholder Group.
Communities
A Citizen Observatory is supporting farmers with monitoring through citizen science initiatives. An info hub will also share activities, information, data and resources between farmers, scientists, policy makers, and citizens.
Policy & Practice
Specialists are providing technical information, methods, and tools to support agro-biodiversity monitoring, management and policy. Cluster Stakeholder Groups will inform and promote policy and practice, organised into regional, national and international networks.
Science & Innovation
Researchers regionally, national & internationally are generating knowledge on the ecology, sociology and economics that underpins the functioning of sustainable agricultural systems.
