08 January 2026
Accelerating global change and biodiversity loss threaten crop pollination, a key ecosystem service vital for food security and largely dependent on wild pollinators. Increasing climatic variability may reduce pollination stability, but diverse pollinator communities with complementary thermal niches could buffer these effects. This SHOWCASE study,...
29 December 2025
Rising agricultural inputs have increased yields and reduced food shortages but caused major environmental damage, prompting policies such as the EU Green Deal to cut pesticide and fertiliser use, targets that have sparked farmer protests amid fears over food sovereignty, yield gaps and falling incomes, especially following sharp energy and input...
31 October 2025
The 31 October, marks the end of SHOWCASE and with that, we wanted to send out one final edition of our newsletter. This last issue includes many legacy project outputs as well as recent news and achievements, such as:
The 'Farming with Biodiversity' Handbook;
SHOWCASE's final video with project coordinator Prof. David Kleijn on project...
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
From tractors on the streets to floods and droughts devastating fields, the challenges facing European farmers have never been more visible or more urgent. Yet most of us rarely stop to think about the story behind our food. The new WWF and SHOWCASE podcast episode dives into this reality, exploring the complex connections between farming, food prices...
31 October 2025
A new SHOWCASE paper, written by project partner Wageningen University, investigates how land-use intensity shapes arthropod communities in Dutch grasslands. Arthropods, which are vital for pollination, nutrient cycling and overall ecosystem health, have declined dramatically in recent decades, largely due to agricultural intensification and...
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...
21 October 2025
A recent SHOWCASE study, carried out by partners from BOKU, Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai, the Estonian University of Life Sciences (EMU), Wageningen University (WUR) and the University of Reading, explores how farmers across Europe perceive the financial and non-financial costs of biodiversity measures within agri-environmental...