Focus Group 'Enhancing the biodiversity on farmland through high-diversity landscape features'
How can farmers create and maintain high-diversity landscape features (HDLF) that positively impact farmland biodiversity?
Tasks
- Identify the challenges and opportunities for farmers in introducing a greater diversity of HDLF to increase both the diversity and area of habitats and/or better connectivity between habitats.
- Collect and highlight good practices and inspiring success stories, approaches and methodologies for introducing and maintaining HDLF at different scales and landscapes.
- Identify examples of valorising (from the social and economic point of view) the ecosystem services provided by HDLF.
- Identify capacity building experiences and needs for implementation of HDLF.
- Suggest innovative HDLF and appropriate maintenance/management models essential to the value of landscapes and HDLF for wildlife.
- Identify further research needs from practice, and possible gaps in technical knowledge.
- Suggest innovative ideas for EIP-AGRI Operational Groups and other innovative projects.
Focus Group members
| Surname | First Name | Profession | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aviron | Stéphanie | Researcher | France |
| Dreisiebner-Lanz | Sabrina | Adviser | Austria |
| Goggins | Gary | Civil servant | Ireland |
| Goracci | Jacopo | Farmer | Italy |
| Grebenc | Tine | Researcher | Slovenia |
| Karoglan Todorovic | Sonja | Working at an NGO | Croatia |
| Kavanagh | Saorla | Researcher | Ireland |
| Kernecker | Maria | Researcher | Germany |
| Kirchweger | Stefan | Researcher | Austria |
| Långstedt | Nina | Farmer | Finland |
| Mesmin | Xavier | Other | France |
| Moosmann | Simona | Farmer | Germany |
| Nyárai | Orsolya | Working at an NGO | Hungary |
| Petrov | Petar | Researcher | Bulgaria |
| Robles del salto | José Fernando | Adviser | Spain |
| Santoro | Antonio | Researcher | Italy |
| Špulerová | Jana | Researcher | Slovakia |
| Stover | Daniel | Farmer | United Kingdom |
| Trepp | Rufus | Civil servant | Estonia |
| Zurbrügg | Corinne | Other | Switzerland |
Facilitation team
| Surname | First Name | Profession | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blondeau | Philippe | Coordinating expert | France |
| Maziliauskas | Antanas | Task manager | Lithuania |
| Karasinski | Céline | Co-taskmanager | France |
Working documents
Five Mini Papers have been developed within the frame of the EU CAP Network Focus Group ‘Enhancing the biodiversity on farmland through high-diversity landscape features’ with the purpose of providing input to the Focus Group discussions and final report.
The information and views set out in these Mini Papers are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the official opinion of the Commission. The Commission does not guarantee the accuracy of the data included in this Mini Paper. Neither the Commission nor any person acting on the Commission’s behalf may be held responsible for the use which may be made of the information contained therein.
If you wish to cite these Mini Papers, please refer to them as ‘Annexes to the final report of the EU CAP Network Focus Group ‘Enhancing the biodiversity on farmland through high-diversity landscape features’, 2023’.
Resources
Documents
Starting Paper: Enhancing the biodiversity on farmland through high-diversity landscape features
(PDF – 12.7 MB)
Mini Paper 1: The role of knowledge and promotion
(PDF – 2.67 MB)
Mini Paper 2: Implementing high-diversity landscape features on farms: small changes but large gains
(PDF – 967.52 KB)
Mini Paper 3: Managing high-diversity landscape features for pollinators
(PDF – 3.41 MB)
Mini Paper 4: the social and cultural benefits of high-diversity landscape features
(PDF – 879.28 KB)
Mini Paper 5: Benefits of hdlfs for on-farm adaptation to climate change
(PDF – 1.27 MB)
Projects booklet: Studies from the EU CAP Network’s Focus Group on Enhancing the biodiversity on farmland through high-diversity landscape features
(PDF – 6.46 MB)
