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.
In Estonia
Partners:
EMU
The Estonian University of Life Sciences (EMU) has established a Farmer Cluster in Estonia, encouraging farmers to take responsibility and adopt management strategies to support native biodiversity. We’re involving local stakeholders who are participating in the biodiversity monitoring and data collection, and organising citizen and farmer-based biodiversity data gathering in Estonia. We’re also conducting a Pilot Study to evaluate the effect of Biodiversity Sensitive Farming to Ecosystem Services, with special interest in species providing pest control. In conjunction with NGOs such as Estonian Fund for Nature (ELF), we’re organising citizen science observations and data collection.
