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 Laure Kuhfuss
James Hutton Institute
Environmental economist with a research focus on the design and evaluation of agri-environmental policies.
Dr Kuhfuss’ work analyses farmers’ behaviours and preferences towards pro-environmental land management practices and investigates how to design efficient agri-environmental schemes with insights from behavioural economics and through interdisciplinary collaborations. She has expertise in a range of experimental and statistical approaches (economic lab experiments, discrete choice experiments, econometric analysis). She is a board member of the European REECAP network (Research network on Economic Experiments for the Common Agricultural Policy).