16 January 2026
Biodiversity management can actively support the processes farmers rely on to remain productive – from enhancing natural pest control and pollination by attracting beneficial insects, to improving soil health through nutrient recycling. Yet many dominant agricultural practices, such as monoculture and the excessive use of chemical pesticides and1
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,1
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 and1
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 project1
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 Wageningen1
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, food1
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 agricultural1
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 both1
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 Kleijn1
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 Swedish1