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 The Netherlands
Partners:
IBED / UOA
The Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED) is one of eight research institutes of the Faculty of Science at the University of Amsterdam. We’re coordinating a Farmer Cluster pilot on arable farming in the Hoeksche Waard/Flevoland.
We’re also co-lead on providing the modelling framework for identifying the limiting resources for target species and groups and selecting the interventions (at farm and landscape scale) that can optimally support these organisms. It will study the effects of farming practices and interventions on biodiversity and ecosystem services in and around arable fields. It will define the recommendations / tools for the farmers and other stakeholders in the pilot areas, with emphasis on arthropod diversity in arable crops. Based on the knowledge accumulated in this project, IBED will redefine the ecological submodels that are used to evaluate the impact of biodiversity-sensitive farming practices.