29 August 2025
The European Bioeconomy Scientific Forum (EBSF), the biannual flagship event of the European Bioeconomy University (EBU) Alliance, took place from 11–13 June 2025 at the University of Eastern Finland in Joensuu and Koli National Park. This year’s forum focused on advancing the bioeconomy through regional and international collaboration, cross-border...
25 August 2025
From 18–20 June 2025, the 14th Conference of the Italian Association of Agricultural and Applied Economics (AIEAA) took place in Pisa, Italy under the theme “Reconciling competitiveness and sustainability in the agrifood system: the role of knowledge and innovation”.
Within this framework, SHOWCASE partners from National Centre for...
22 August 2025
SHOWCASE PhD researcher Gabriella Bishop from Wageningen University has presented her thesis in a new short video, offering insights into how we can better conserve pollinators in agricultural landscapes. Her research explores both field-level interventions and landscape-scale strategies, showing how farmers and policymakers alike can play a role in...
21 August 2025
The July 2025 edition of CPM Magazine spotlights new research into regenerative agriculture, featuring both University of Leeds lecturer Dr. Ruth Wade and SHOWCASE lecturerDr. Millie Hood from the University of Reading. The article, “Researching regen approaches gaining speed”, reports on the Green Farm Collective Conference,...
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...
24 July 2025
Agricultural intensification has increased crop yields but caused biodiversity loss, pest outbreaks and environmental damage, threatening essential ecosystem services like natural pest control. In response, the EU and Switzerland are promoting sustainable farming practices—such as organic farming, habitat conservation and reduced pesticide use—to enhance...
16 July 2025
Biodiversity continues to decline despite past conservation efforts, prompting new policies like the EU Biodiversity Strategy, which require national ecosystem condition mapping. However, such mapping, especially for croplands, relies heavily on proxy indicators due to a lack of primary biodiversity data, raising concerns about accuracy. To address...
03 July 2025
As agriculture expands to meet rising demands, biodiversity and ecosystem services often suffer—especially in vineyards, which cover over 7 million hectares globally and still depend heavily on pesticides. Yet, organically managed vineyards in natural habitat-rich landscapes can host diverse communities of pest predators like birds and bats, which provide...
27 June 2025
SHOWCASE has just completed a multi-lingual campaign on X to promote InsectsCount, a new app for monitoring pollinators. Run in English, German, Spanish, French, Swedish and Dutch, the campaign aimed to engage farmers, environmental groups and citizen scientists across Europe in tracking vital insects like bees, butterflies and hoverflies. These pollinators...
12 June 2025
At the 2025 SIBECOL-AEET Meeting, held under the banner of advancing ecological science for sustainability, Dr. Ignasi Bartomeus took part in a session focused on the new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) 2023–2027 and its potential to enhance biodiversity through adaptive management and evidence-based evaluation.
The session, titled “Evaluating...
30 May 2025
On 22 May 2025, Dr. Ignasi Bartomeus, a SHOWCASE partner, joined a panel at the Innovation Through Communication webinar to explore the evolving role of scientists in translating research into real-world impact.
Hosted by Food4Sustainability, the event brought together scientists, journalists and project communicators to discuss how to better leverage...
Factors influencing farmers’ decisions to implement biodiversity measures in agricultural landscapes
22 May 2025
Habitat fragmentation in agricultural landscapes poses a serious threat to biodiversity. While measures such as hedgerows and wildflower strips can improve ecological connectivity, little is known about how farmers decide where to implement them. To address this knowledge gap, a SHOWCASE study, conducted by the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural...