The FRAMEwork Project addressed the urgent challenges of biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation in the EU and UK. These challenges threaten both conservation efforts and ecosystem services vital to agriculture, as well as wider societal resilience. Farming practices are deeply intertwined with broader landscape ecologies. Studies in German nature reserves reveal a 75% decline in insect biomass since the 1990s, even in protected areas. Agricultural landscapes also play a pivotal role in environmental resilience against increasing drought, wildfires and flash flooding caused by man-made climate change. FRAMEwork also addressed important policy and innovation contexts. The EU’s latest Common Agricultural Policy, introduced in 2022 , places greater emphasis on environmentally sustainable farming and reflects a wider shift towards practices that combat growing ecological pressures. Many EU countries have implemented or are exploring voluntary and mandatory forms of collective land management that aim to scale-up positive impacts. Agri-tech and large-scale distributed data collection, including Citizen Science, are becoming more important to support these efforts in our age of big data and AI. In response, FRAMEwork adopted a bottom-up approach that explored voluntary farmer collaboration, training, peer learning and community engagement, while giving weight to local priorities. This helped the project co-develop practical solutions, evidence and tools that responded to current challenges while supporting agronomic and economic viability and assessing risks. By fostering and studying farming systems tailored to regional conditions and sustainability priorities, the project contributed to the EU’s green transition goals. It placed farmers and their communities at the centre of efforts to enhance biodiversity and ecosystem services, as well as research supporting these efforts.