31 October 2025
Effective communication is essential to drive change in biodiversity and agricultural research — yet, despite growing awareness and outreach efforts, the message often fails to reach or resonate with key audiences such as farmers and policymakers. To understand why, researchers from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and Wageningen University...
31 October 2025
This press release was published by AlphaGalileo and EurekAlert!.
The EU-funded project SHOWCASE has released its final handbook, titled “Farming with Biodiversity”, which serves as a practical and evidence-based guide and bank of resources to help farmers, advisors and policymakers work together to make European agriculture both profitable...
30 October 2025
SHOWCASE has released its final video, featuring an in-depth interview with project coordinator Professor David Kleijn from Wageningen University. The video highlights the project’s key findings and its impact on research, farmers and biodiversity-friendly farming across Europe.
Confirming the benefits of biodiversity on farms
Professor Kleijn...
30 October 2025
SHOWCASE has just released a new factsheet titled “Farmland Biodiversity Monitoring Through Citizen Science", underscoring how farmers and local communities can play a vital role in safeguarding biodiversity while maintaining productive and sustainable agriculture. The factsheet is based on a SHOWCASE paper, authored by partners Swedish University of...
24 October 2025
SHOWCASE's third and most recent policy brief sheds light on how Europe can more effectively promote biodiversity-friendly farming practices (BFFM) and what drives or hinders farmers’ willingness to adopt them.
Authored by project partners BOKU and ZALF, the brief draws on research conducted across ten European countries, analysing the social, economic...
22 October 2025
A new SHOWCASE policy brief highlights that reversing the alarming decline of pollinators in Europe will require expanding natural habitats well beyond current EU targets. The brief, authored by partners Wageningen University, Agroscope, HUN-REN Centre for Ecological Research, CSIC, University of Reading, Dutch Butterfly Conservation and University...
01 October 2025
This press release was published by AlphaGalileo.
Bees, bumblebees, butterflies, and other pollinators are essential for both ecosystems and agriculture, yet their numbers are declining at an alarming rate. A new study, led by researchers from Wageningen University & Research and published in Science on 25 September 2025, shows that...
15 September 2025
In this interview, PhD researcher Reinier de Vries from Wageningen University shares insights from his research on the trade-offs between biodiversity, ecosystem services and farmer income in European grassland systems.
He explains:
Why biodiversity-friendly farming in grasslands is urgent
The balance between productivity, fertilization...
15 September 2025
In this interview, Associate Professor Erik Öckinger from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences explains why monitoring farmland biodiversity is important and how citizen science can play a key role.
He discusses:
Why biodiversity monitoring matters
How citizen scientists and volunteers contribute
Different...
24 July 2025
SHOWCASE recently published a fifth practice abstract on the EU CAP Network, highlighting the effectiveness of green covers in stone fruit orchards to boost biodiversity, even under intensive farm management.
Authored by project partners conducting research on 15 stone fruit farms in Spain, the study compared areas with planted green covers between...
16 May 2025
This press release was published by EurekAlert!, AlphaGalileo and Bioengineer.
The Horizon 2020-funded project SHOWCASE is proud to announce the publication of four practice abstracts on the EU CAP Network platform, a significant step forward in promoting biodiversity integration within European agriculture. These findings reflect...
03 March 2025
SHOWCASE published its fourth practice abstract on the EU CAP Network, aiming to facilitate knowledge transfer from practice-oriented projects to farmers, advisors and other actors who might benefit from their results.
The practice abstract, authored by partner ZALF, presents a survey of 700 European farmers, which revealed key factors shaping their...