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 Riina Kaasik
Estonian University of Life Sciences (EMU)
Researcher in EMU Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Chair of Plant Health.
Dr Kaasik has been involved with both national and international level projects. Her research activities focus on tritrophic interactions, Integrated Pest Management (IPM) and functional agrobiodiversity. She has over 10 peer-reviewed papers in scientific journals, she is a reviewer for Journal of Insect Behaviour and has supervised several Bachelor and master theses.