Project publishes Legacy Guide signposting all activity and outputs Between 2020 and 2025, the H2020 FRAMEwork project brought together 18 consortium partners, 11 farmer clusters, and over 50 farm businesses across Europe to test whether farmer-led approaches could deliver measurable biodiversity gains, and whether the ‘Farmer Cluster’ model could work in diverse European contexts. The project monitored more than 12,000 hectares of farmland, recorded over 40,000 biodiversity

Project launches substack publication to continue dissemination through 2026 We're pleased to announce the launch of Foodlands , a free weekly newsletter on Substack. The publication shares stories recorded during the course of the project with people trying to improve life in our food system across Europe and beyond ! It's interview-led journalism that puts real on-the-ground voices at the centre of the conversation. Why is This Important? Biodiversity loss and ecosystem deg

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

New analysis of project biodiversity monitoring events mobilising over 13k citizens and generating over 10k ecological observations across Europe A new project report analyses how our Farmer Clusters across nine European countries mobilised over 13,000 citizens through 38 FRAMEwork biodiversity monitoring events between October 2020 and June 2025. These were not one-off awareness events but structured biodiversity-monitoring activities that generated both valuable ecological

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

FRAMEwork has released FRAMEtest, a decision support tool that decision makers explore management scenarios before committing to land-use changes. Land use decision makers, from farm businesses to policymakers, need confidence that proposed changes will deliver results. FRAMEtest simulates how interventions like hedgerow restoration, wildflower strips, reduced pesticides, or organic conversion would affect biodiversity, ecosystem services and farm economics across multiple ye

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

Exploring a New Support Tool for Agricultural Decision Makers... On August 28, 2025, the project hosted an interactive workshop on...

A new collection of policy briefs and practice abstracts from the FRAMEwork project sets out evidence-based recommendations on incentives, farmer engagement, and practical tools for cluster development. The FRAMEwork project has published a new report, Summary information notes and policy briefs , which brings together five outputs from the project's work on farmer behaviour and incentives (Work Package 6). The collection is aimed at policymakers, farm advisors, facilitators,

FRAMEwork has released landscape complementation models showing how habitat configuration optimises natural pest control, pollination and other ecosystem services across farmed landscapes FRAMEwork has published a report exploring how different habitats and resources scattered across farmed landscapes work together to support wildlife. Landscape complementation is based on a simple observation about species ecology: many species cannot find everything they need in a single ha

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

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

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 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

Project releases comprehensive training materials combining peer learning, expert instruction and practical fieldwork developed through five years of cluster implementation across Europe FRAMEwork has published comprehensive training materials and documented training events that have prepared facilitators across Europe for the complex role of coordinating landscape-scale conservation. Cluster facilitators are linchpins in biodiversity management. They coordinate meetings, del

Get the low-down on the project's open-access Data Hub A new report shares how over the course of our project, expert scientists and citizen scientists working across 11 farmer clusters collected thousands of biodiversity observations — from bird and pollinator surveys to vegetation assessments and farm habitat data. A new report, Specialist indicators and farming systems data capture , describes how all of this data has been captured, catalogued, and made available through t

Explore new content and resources on the platform... Following the public launch of the project’s Recodo platform this summer, we’re...

Use the Farmland Ecosystem Assessment Tool to plan habitat creation and more... The FRAMEwork project’s platform for those at the...