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 fo...
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 i...
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 Conferenc...
01 August 2025
From 18–21 June 2025, Mons, Belgium, hosted the international conference Ecology, Politics and Justice: Working Towards the Pluriverse. SHOWCASE researchers from the Estonian University of Life Sciences were in attendance, presenting their latest findings on biodiversity and landscape management.
Aki Kadulin, a SHOWCASE partner, together with In...
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 betw...
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 e...
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...
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 po...
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 “E...