Project added to USDA National Library
- Taskscape Associates
- Oct 2, 2024
- 2 min read
Updated: Sep 16
FRAMEwork has been selected for inclusion in the US Department of Agriculture's National resource library, used by stakeholders around the world....
We're pleased to share that, as of late September 2024, the EU Horizon 2020 FRAMEwork project has been added to the USDA National Agricultural Library.
The project now appears in the NAL collection, one of the world's largest agricultural information repositories serving researchers, policymakers, and practitioners across the United States and globally.
The National Agricultural Library maintains a highly curated collection focused on materials that advance specific research and sector needs. The library's collection development policy emphasises selective acquisition of international resources rather than comprehensive archiving, with active selection based on thematic, long-term, relevance.
With thousands of eligible agricultural projects conducted across Europe as part of Horizon 2020 and similar programs, only a small fraction are selected for inclusion in NAL's databases - making FRAMEwork's inclusion an excellent impact and legacy outcome for the project.
This recent news fits into a broader story. FRAMEwork's research is read globally, but the project has also engaged directly in knowledge exchange activities with American stakeholders in project issues.
The project podcast series 'Foodlands', features interesting discussions with American science writers like Charles C Mann and Michelle Nijhuis on both European and U.S ecosystems and agricultural practices. Mann, in particular, expressed keen interest in European cropping systems and approaches to agrobiodiversity and explored their potential lessons for American contexts.
More recently, a knowledge exchange meeting was arranged at the request of Andrew Little, Associate Professor of Landscape and Habitat Management at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Andrew is a leading figure in Nebraska's landscape and wildlife management. His work seeks to balance agricultural production with biodiversity and ecosystem services retention and improvement.
The meeting, attended by Work Package Lead Dr Niamh McHugh and Project Deputy Coordinator Alastair Simmons, explored the workings and flexibility of the Farmer Cluster approach, especially in relation to biodiversity monitoring and habitat management. We look forward to the project's activities and learnings continuing to be discovered through these international collaboration routes.
