Agriculture remains one of the most significant contributors to biodiversity decline. To address this, several EU initiatives - including the Biodiversity Strategy for 2030, the European Green Deal, and the Farm to Fork Strategy - have established ambitious agri-environmental goals to be achieved by 2030. These include reducing the use of chemical pesticides, antibiotics, and fertilisers by 50%, 50%, and 20% respectively. Moreover, the policies aim to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 55%, enhance natural features across at least 10% of farmland, and increase organic farming to 25% of the total agricultural area.

In collaboration with the H2020 FRAMEwork project and its free online platform Recodo, we are pleased to present a webinar exploring how science can play a pivotal role in combating biodiversity loss in agriculture and shaping policy recommendations. 

This webinar will emphasise the critical importance of landscape features for farmland biodiversity and focus on strategies to sustain multifunctional landscapes effectively. It will also delve into the application of spatial measures, weighing the advantages and limitations of working with different approaches for landscape management such as rewilding, land sharing and land sparing in relationship with agriculture production.

Recodo is a free online platform supporting stakeholders researching and implementing landscape-scale conservation measures in farmed regions.