Making Our Project Legacy Accessible

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 observations, and engaged more than 20,000 people through events, training, and citizen science. Our Legacy Guide, published in February 2026, is a concise walkthrough of the project’s activity and outputs, providing an accessible starting point for anyone wanting to explore the project’s results and take its knowledge forward.

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What Does the Legacy Guide Contain?

The guide is organised into five sections, each covering a distinct strand of the project's work:

• Quick Overviews: introduce the project's scope, structure, and funding context and outline where to find different types of project outputs.

  
  

• Cluster Network: sets out how the project’s 11 Farmer Clusters were established and operated across different regions and farming systems and points to best-practice resources.

• Biodiversity Monitoring: covers standardised protocols and resulting datasets from the project’s multi-year field surveys.

  
  

• Agroecological Understanding: describes how these results informed decision-focused outputs like landscape complementation models as well as decision support and farm-level assessment tools.

  
  

• Transition Pathways: presents how systems-thinking synthesis led to research, reports and policy briefs providing big-picture recommendations.

Each section signposts some key project outputs and publications. All linked resources remain accessible through the FRAMEwork Information Hub and the project website until at least 2030, when they will be archived at locations specified in the guide.

Who is the Legacy Guide Designed for?

The guide provides valuable information for:  

• Teams designing or running similar multi-actor projects and seeking useful insights.

• Researchers wanting to access our peer-reviewed publications, standardised monitoring protocols, and open datasets.

  
  

• Policymakers looking to assess collective farmer-led action for biodiversity, and associated agri-environment schemes through targeted briefs and decision support tools.

  
  

• Agri-economy stakeholders - such as advisory services, farm networks, and land managers - seeking practical guidelines, training materials, and tools.

  
  

• Funding bodies exploring how to support further uptake of the project’s agroecological approaches and tools, or equivalents.

 

Where Can I Access the Legacy Guide?

The Legacy Guide is available to download from our Zenodo Community and via the top menu bar, homepage and Work Package pages of this website.