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.
Dr Claire Lavigne
National Institute for Researching Agriculture and Environment (INRAE)
Leader of the ‘Conservation Biological Control’ team at INRA-PSH and deputy head at INRA department ’Agronomy & Environment’.
Dr Lavigne is currently working on integrated horticultural crop production with particular interest on the spatio-temporal dynamics of agricultural pests and pest enemies at a landscape scale and more generally on how landscape features and agricultural practices shape biodiversity in agricultural landscapes. Her work includes data collection in commercial orchards, data analyses and modelling pest dynamics and 2D agricultural field patterns. She supervised seven PhD students over the last decade.