A new paper presents a standardised monitoring protocol tested across the project’s eleven Farmer Clusters… A paper published in PLoS ONE by Nichols, Begg, Holland, Warner, McHugh, and colleagues presents a standardised protocol for measuring farmland biodiversity outcomes across European farmer-cluster landscapes. The protocol was developed and tested during the project, which established 11 farmer clusters across 9 countries and monitored their biodiversity using a...

A webinar exploring how collaborative farming can deliver beneficial outcomes ... The James Hutton Institute recently hosted a webinar organised by its International Land Use Study Centre (ILUSC), chaired by Director Professor Lee-Ann Sutherland alongside Deputy Director Dr Kerry Waylen. Four project speakers presented findings from across FRAMEwork's 11 clusters in nine European countries, then opened the floor for a wide-ranging discussion. © The James Hutton Institute "Fro

Project officially launches YouTube Channel to support legacy dissemination Throughout H2020 FRAMEwork, video has played a central role in connecting our project's actors and audiences across Europe - from short documentaries filmed on farms to expert-led webinars on biodiversity policy and practice. For most of the project's lifetime, these videos were hosted via Taskscape's Vimeo, embedded across the project website and knowledge hub, Recodo, and played at project events an

Project releases policy brief demonstrating that coordinated, landscape-scale action delivers measurable ecological benefits whilst strengthening rural communities across Europe FRAMEwork has published a policy brief documenting five years of evidence from eleven Farmer Clusters across nine European countries. The research demonstrates that coordinated, landscape-scale action delivers measurable ecological benefits whilst strengthening rural communities. Farmer Clusters repre

Project policy brief outlines why skilled facilitators are essential for landscape-scale conservation within farmer clusters Farmer clusters succeed or fail based on facilitator quality. FRAMEwork has published a systems analysis brief of eleven clusters across nine countries examining how facilitators shape biodiversity outcomes. The research shows that skilled facilitators serve as critical hubs distributing knowledge, building trust, and connecting farmers with researchers

Project publishes Cluster-level policy briefs documenting farmer-led biodiversity management across Europe. Here is what they offer and why they matter! FRAMEwork has published ten policy briefs, each documenting a different farmer cluster operating within the project. The briefs cover 11 clusters across 9 European countries: Austria (2 clusters), the Czech Republic, England, Estonia, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Spain. Scotland’s Buchan cluster is covered

FRAMEwork has published research on how collaborative approaches help urban and rural communities build shared commitment to farmland conservation. Farmland biodiversity is declining across Europe, threatening the ecosystem services and food security that all communities depend on. Yet urban and rural populations often view farming through fundamentally different lenses. Urban residents tend to emphasise environmental action as a priority, whilst rural residents prioritise jo

New training materials from a project workshop support replication across project areas, and beyond! FRAMEwork has published the training materials and event documentation from a May 2022 workshop in Luxembourg that taught farmer cluster facilitators how to organise and run bioblitz events. The materials are designed as a replicable package. One cluster that attended the training conducted a bioblitz, generating 701 observations of 249 species from 129 participants, demonstra

FRAMEwork has released over 70 citizen science protocols tested across nine European countries and tailored specifically for farmer-led implementation. Biodiversity monitoring resources abound! From guides, to manuals and protocols largely professional ecologists. Yet few are specifically designed for farmer-led implementation at meaningful landscape scales. FRAMEwork has released an extensive collection of over 70 citizen science protocols, applications and supporting materi

FRAMEwork has released evidence from rigorous before-after-control-impact analysis showing that structured monitoring catalyses measurable ecological recovery FRAMEwork's multi-year impact assessment across eleven farmer clusters in ten European countries employs rigorous before-after-control-impact (BACI) experimental design to answer a critical question: does monitoring biodiversity on farmland actually improve ecological outcomes? Results demonstrate that structured monito

A new project policy brief reveals that almost 100% of surveyed farmers preferred contracts offering the option for collaborative landscape-scale conservation A new project policy brief shares findings that nearly all European farmers surveyed as part of FRAMEwork prefer agri-environmental contracts offering the option to join a farmer cluster or equivalent group. A discrete choice experiment with 761 farmers presented hypothetical five-year contracts requiring six-metre fiel

On a warm Friday morning in late June, the historic Monte Pisano Oil Mill in Vicopisano opened its doors to a gathering of researchers,...

Sharing spatial tool approaches to Farmland Ecosystem Assessment... On June 10, 2025, project partner the University of Hertfordshire's...

A Mini-BioBlitz in Andalucia demonstrates project impacts... Fifty students from IES Vicente Núñez secondary school in Aguilar de la...

Four Days, Thousands of Species! How FRAMEwork helped organise Neusiedl am See joining the World's Biggest Nature Hunt... Credit:...

New resources arrive on the platform! We're excited to share that the penultimate update to FRAMEwork's online platform has been...

FRAMEWORK project partner Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (SSSA) helped organise a BioBlitz in Monte Pisano on April 26-27, as part of the...

Two key members of the FRAMEwork project recently featured on "The Lisa Burke Show" in Luxembourg, for an insightful discussion about citizen science initiatives, and the role of farmer clusters and their communities in achieving better understanding and support for biodiversity.

Project publishes analysis showing how natural asset profiling reveals the economic and ecological value of ecosystem services at regional scales Understanding the full impact of biodiversity-friendly farming requires looking beyond individual farms to the natural assets that support entire agricultural landscapes. FRAMEwork has published a new analysis demonstrating how natural asset profiling methods reveal the economic and ecological value of ecosystem services across regi

Project releases best-practice guidelines for establishing collaborative farm business groups, drawn from the UK’s Farmer Cluster network and experience expanding the concept into mainland Europe. FRAMEwork has now published a complete set of guidelines for establishing Advanced Farmer Clusters—structured groups of neighbouring farm businesses coordinating landscape-scale biodiversity efforts with supporting stakeholders. The guidelines draw on lessons from the UK’s successfu