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How Do You Train Farmers to Run a Citizen Science Event?
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
Oct 6, 2025


What Makes Biodiversity Monitoring Protocols Usable for Farmers?
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
Oct 2, 2025


What Actually Motivates Farmers to Change — and What Stops Them?
A new project report maps the drivers and barriers to biodiversity-friendly farming across European regions FRAMEwork has published a new report analysing what drives and blocks farmer adoption of biodiversity-friendly practices. The research draws on fieldwork in three contrasting regions — Buchan in Scotland, Born in Luxembourg and Val Graziosa in Italy — and uses socio-ecological network models to trace how the costs and benefits of changing practice ripple through entire
Sep 29, 2025


Does biodiversity monitoring actually drive conservation outcomes on farms?
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
Sep 29, 2025


Inside Farmer Clusters
Webinar shares lessons from across Europe and the UK... On the 24th September 2025, FRAMEwork held its final webinar within the official project duration, 'Inside Farmer Clusters: Lessons from Europe and the UK', hosted by coordinating partner the James Hutton Institute. This was a fantastic opportunity to reflect on five years supporting biodiversity through piloting collaborative farming approaches. We're pleased to share that the webinar was well attended with over 70 stak
Sep 25, 2025


How can farmers evaluate their sustainability performance?
Project publishes practitioner assessment tool enabling farmers to evaluate performance across sustainability indicators FRAMEwork has published a Sustainability Assessment Tool designed for arable and mixed farming systems across Europe. The tool provides methods for evaluating farm performance across 16 key sustainability indicators organised into environmental, social and economic dimensions. Farmers can complete assessments in approximately two hours, whilst cluster facil
Sep 11, 2025


Empowering Communities
New Publications Showcase the Power of Citizen Science in Nature Management... New project-supported reports from FRAMEwork partner...
Sep 3, 2025


FrameTest Webinar
Exploring a New Support Tool for Agricultural Decision Makers... On August 28, 2025, the project hosted an interactive workshop on...
Sep 2, 2025


ÖkoProg Live
Moritz Fritschle shares insights from project research on behavioral factors in agri-environmental program design. Project researcher...
Aug 6, 2025


Foire Agricole Ettelbrück 2025
LIST share H2020 FRAMEwork Project and Recodo at agricultural fair... The Saturday engagement team | Credit: LIST The Luxembourg...
Jul 9, 2025


Newsletter: Summer 2025
An update from the project halfway through the final year... Read the newsletter below or at this link .
Jul 4, 2025


What Policy Tools Can Support Farmer Clusters and Biodiversity-Sensitive Farming?
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,
Jul 4, 2025


How Do Different Habitats Work Together to Support Biodiversity?
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
Jul 4, 2025


Do Farmers Prefer Agri-Environmental Schemes with Group Options?
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
Jul 4, 2025


International Natural Capital Webinar
Connecting research and policy to halt biodiversity decline in agriculture... On July 1st, 2025, FRAMEwork's coordinating partner the...
Jul 1, 2025


FRAMEwork Futures
On a warm Friday morning in late June, the historic Monte Pisano Oil Mill in Vicopisano opened its doors to a gathering of researchers,...
Jun 30, 2025


How Does Social Learning Transform Farmer Clusters Into Conservation Communities?
FRAMEwork releases report on how peer-to-peer learning and collective action strengthen farmer networks whilst driving biodiversity outcomes Farmer clusters represent more than administrative groupings—they function as learning communities where peers exchange knowledge, challenge assumptions and build shared commitment to conservation goals. FRAMEwork has released research demonstrating how deliberate investment in social learning mechanisms creates conditions for sustained
Jun 27, 2025


How we value our land
British Ecological Symposium explores project topics... Members of FRAMEwork recently attended the British Ecological Society's 2025...
Jun 24, 2025


EU Policy Impact Exchange
FRAMEwork at the NetCIEx Workshop 2025 Last week, 19–20 June, FRAMEwork researchers from Osnabrück University were pleased to attend an...
Jun 24, 2025


International FEAST Webinar
Sharing spatial tool approaches to Farmland Ecosystem Assessment... On June 10, 2025, project partner the University of Hertfordshire's...
Jun 16, 2025
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