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.
Francois Warlop
Research Group in Organic Farming
François is an agronomist specialized in fruit trees and organic farming. He has been working at GRAB since 1998 and has participated in many national/european projects dealing with functional biodiversity, agroforestry, low-input farming systems... He's currently in charge of several projects dealing with fruit agroforestry such as Durette project. He also has a broad experience on pest control for organic farming for mediterranean fruit species such as almond, cherry, peach or olive.