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. Marika Mänd
Estonian University of Life Sciences (EMU)
Head of the Chair of Plant Health in Estonian University of Life Sciences. Her main research area focuses on ecology and physiology of insects especially pollination of horticultural and other entomophilous crops.
Professor Mänd has over 90 papers published in different peer-reviewed scientific journals and she also acts as a referee for several journals, for example Agriculture, Ecosystem and Environment, Pest Management Science, Ecotoxicology, Arthropod-Plant Interactions, Insect Conservation and Diversity etc. She has experience in several international projects including BIOCLIM and POSHBEE.