News | 17 May 2023
Horizon projects enhancing biodiversity in farming
- Innovation, knowledge exchange & EIP-AGRI
- Agricultural Productivity
- Fostering Knowledge & Innovation
Examples of Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe projects working on farming and biodiversity

Many Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe projects are focusing on biodiversity enhancement. Find some examples below :
- BIOVALUE is analysing the holistic link between biodiversity, agro-food value chain agents, the environment, consumer food preferences and health.
- B-THENET is a thematic network implementing a multi-actor approach to make the EU beekeeping sector more economically viable and sustainable (also see Cordis page)
- CROPDIVA is working on enhancing European crop diversity and agrobiodiversity, putting six underused arable crops back in the fields.
- EcoStack is enhancing ecosystem services for an improved and sustainable farming systems.
- Farmer Clusters for Realising Agrobiodiversity Management across Ecosystems (FRAMEwork) is about sharing knowledge, testing innovative practices for collective landscape-scale biodiversity enhancement in agroecosytems and making recommending improvements to how we value biodiversity and ecosystem services in our agrifoodsystem.
- MarginUP ! is developing sustainable and circular value chains by introducing climate resilient and biodiversity-friendly non-food crops on marginal and low-productivity lands.
- SHOWCASE is showcasing synergies between agriculture, biodiversity and ecosystem services to help farmers capitalise on native biodiversity.
Interested in applying for Horizon Europe funding? Take a look here.
Have you read the thematic newsletter on biodiversity (May 2023) from the EU CAP Network Support Facility for Innovation & Knowledge exchange including EIP-AGRI? Click here.