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.
Prof. David Kleijn
Wageningen University
Prof. David Kleijn is an ecologist working at Wageningen University interested in biodiversity conservation on farmland and optimization of ecosystem services in agriculture. Together with his group he studies the impacts of land-use change on biodiversity and effects of biodiversity on agricultural production with the aim to identify win-win situations. This is increasingly done in collaboration with local stakeholders such as farmer organizations, municipalities, conservation organizations, water boards and provincial governments. Kleijn previously coordinated the successful EU FP5 EASY and FP7 LIBERATION projects and currently coordinates the H2020 Showcase project.