02 May 2025
Pollinators are the unsung heroes of agriculture, quietly sustaining ecosystems and food systems alike. But how do we protect them in landscapes dominated by intensive farming? This is the question that drove a SHOWCASE early-career researcher, Gabriella Bishop, from Wageningen University towards her field of PhD research - a journey into the heart...
28 March 2025
The latest edition of Safeguard's newsletter is out, featuring SHOWCASE among its highlights! This edition covers key project achievements, relevant outputs and upcoming events.
SHOWCASE contributed with a recent study assessing how different farmland habitats—crop fields, road verges, and wildflower fields (WFFs)—support functional groups like pollinators...
24 March 2025
SHOWCASE partner Dr Ignasi Bartomeus recently co-authored an article in the prominent Spanish newspaper El País discussing the Natural Restoration Law and the importance of conserving biodiversity. As the article mentions, humanity is facing an unprecedented ecological crisis, with ecosystems rapidly degrading due to pollution, climate change...
21 March 2025
Biodiversity conservation policies require monitoring systems that are both accurate and cost-effective. Technological innovations, such as citizen science, DNA-based techniques, and AI, offer the potential to improve such monitoring by reducing costs and overcoming technical barriers. Result-based schemes, which reward farmers for achieving measurable...
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...
28 February 2025
The intensification of European agriculture increased food production but severely impacted farmland biodiversity and essential ecosystem services, making farming systems more vulnerable to environmental and economic challenges. To mitigate these effects, the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) promotes agri-environment schemes that incentivise nature-friendly...
14 February 2025
SHOWCASE published its third 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 partners The University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, University of Bologna, ZALF, The...
03 February 2025
A co-funded SHOWCASE study was recently conducted, bringing together experts in agriculture, ecology and policy to explore the potential of perennial crops in sustainable farming. Authored by project partner CSIC, alongside CIRAD, UFZ, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China Agricultural University, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology,...
29 January 2025
SHOWCASE published its second 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 second practice abstract, authored by partners The University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, ZALF and WWF, provides...
15 January 2025
Agricultural landscapes across Europe have been extensively modified, leading to biodiversity loss and reduced ecosystem services. As part of global restoration efforts, initiatives like the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration and the EU's Biodiversity Strategy aim to promote the restoration of semi-natural habitats, especially grasslands,...
08 January 2025
The SHOWCASE project has received prominent recognition by being featured in the European Research Council (ERC) and European Research Executive Agency (REA) publication, titled "Biodiversity: The Nexus Approach", which outlines “a selection of EU-funded research projects that deliver scientific knowledge, solutions and case studies on the connections...
30 December 2024
This past year marked another 12 months of successful collaborations and insightful outputs for SHOWCASE. Watch the video below to find out about the research developments, especially within the Experimental Biodiversity Areas, technological innovations and stakeholder events that the project was involved with over 2024.