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 Walter Starz
Agricultural Research and Education Centre Raumberg- Gumpenstein (HBLFA)
Head of Department for Organic Grassland Management and Husbandry.
Mr Starz's work involves sustainable, organic grassland management and pasture management, including questions of forage quality, fertilization, soil quality and reseeding. He is also a lecturer at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna.