Periodic Reporting for period 2 - SHOWCASE (SHOWCASing synergies between agriculture, biodiversity and Ecosystem services to help farmers capitalising on native biodiversity)
Période du rapport: 2022-05-01 au 2023-10-31
Our specific objectives are:
• To establish a long-lasting European multi-actor network of Experimental Biodiversity Areas (EBAs) for the development, testing and showcasing, together with farmers, of approaches to effectively integrate biodiversity into farm management across different European landscapes.
• To identify, along a broad gradient of land use from intensification to abandonment, which economic, agro-ecological and social factors incentivise farmers to actively support biodiversity on their farms.
• To establish, with farmers, a strong evidence base on public and private goods, as well as costs, associated with promoting native biodiversity, in a range of European farming systems and socio-economic contexts.
• To co-develop with stakeholders, methods, tools and indicators to monitor and evaluate biodiversity and ecosystem services against operational biodiversity targets at appropriate temporal and spatial scales and governance levels, and establish harmonized sets of data on native biodiversity.
• To develop and implement inspirational narratives to communicate the benefits of biodiversity to farmers, and beyond, and to make available easily accessible information on best practices for integration of biodiversity in farm management.