AGRI4POL and FarmBioNet Join Forces to Enhance Biodiversity Across Europe
AGRI4POL and FarmBioNet are both Horizon Europe projects committed to advancing biodiversity across Europe. Recognising the importance of collaboration to maximise impact, AGRI4POL and FarmBioNet have joined forces to broaden their outreach and engagement. By working together, these projects aim to connect with a broader network of farmers, agricultural advisors, researchers, policymakers, and other key stakeholders to promote agricultural practices that support both food production and biodiversity.
AGRI4POL: Supporting pollinators through sustainable agriculture
AGRI4POL is a Horizon Europe project focused on promoting sustainable agriculture for pollinators. Across Europe, unsustainable intensive farming methods and conventional crop breeding approaches are placing increasing pressure on pollinator populations. This, in turn, threatens the productivity of many economically important crops that rely partly or entirely on insect pollination.
By taking an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approach, AGRI4POL brings together scientists, farmers, policymakers, and other stakeholders to demonstrate how farming can be reshaped to enhance pollination services, support resilient crop yields, and strengthen the ecological foundations on which agriculture depends.
FarmBioNet: Connecting People for Biodiversity
The Farmer-focused Biodiversity and Agricultural Knowledge Network (FarmBioNet) is a three-year Horizon Europe project dedicated to promoting biodiversity-friendly farming practices across Europe.
Given that agricultural land represents the largest share of terrestrial land modified by human activity, farmers’ land management decisions play a critical role in shaping biodiversity outcomes. Preserving biodiversity is not only essential for protecting nature but also for sustaining agricultural production, ensuring food security, and maintaining vital ecosystem services.
That’s why FarmBioNet is establishing a European network of 12 national Farming and Biodiversity Networks (FaB NNs). These networks will serve as platforms for sharing both traditional knowledge and evidence-based practices that support and enhance biodiversity on farms.
Benefits of the AGRI4POL and FarmBioNet Collaboration
By working together, the two projects reinforce each other’s impact and increase the potential for sustainable, biodiversity-friendly farming across Europe. Their collaboration brings several key benefits:
- Improves the Reliability and Broader Relevance of Findings. By comparing outcomes and evaluating findings across both projects, the collaboration helps identify shared patterns and reinforce consistent, evidence-based conclusions. This enhances the credibility of the results and makes them more applicable across different regions, farming systems, and contexts.
- Promotes Consistent Action on Biodiversity Across Europe. Through co-hosted workshops and shared social media campaigns, the collaboration ensures that biodiversity-friendly practices and priorities are promoted in a coordinated way, increasing their reach and influence from local farms to the EU level.
- Accelerates the Uptake of Biodiversity-Friendly Practices. Knowledge exchange and shared findings across multiple networks enable faster dissemination and wider adoption of effective farming methods that support biodiversity, helping scale solutions beyond individual projects.