Welcome

The ‘European Learning Network on Functional AgroBiodiversity’ was founded to exchange knowledge and practical experience across country and language borders, between farmers and policymakers, scientists, businesses and NGOs, to enable fast and effective implementation of best practices. This will help to optimize agrobiodiversity benefits, promote sustainable agriculture and will encourage widespread uptake of biodiversity concepts, thereby also enhancing non-agronomic ecosystem services. Read more…


Practical Experiences

Improved capacity and skills for land managers to integrate functional agrobiodiversity into their management practices.

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Policies and Incentives

Greater impact on agricultural policies at national and European levels to promote the integration of functional agrobiodiversity into policies.

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Scientific Research

Improved scientific understanding of the contribution of functional agrobiodiversity to ecosystem services.

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Project Examples
High Nature Value (HNV) Agri-environment Project for Serbia

The project promoting the development of agri-environment support schemes for the conservation of High Nature Value (HNV) farming in Serbia has entered its second and final phase... more

Biological control through selective biodiversity and targeted crop rotation

We are investigating a system where two key pests of cabbage and onion (Delia radicum and D. antiqua) [Diptera:Anthomyiidae] are controlled using: 1) crop rotation to disrupt the... more

Hoeksche Waard: agro-biodiversity as innovation for sustainable agriculture

In the spring of 2004 citizens and organisations from Hoeksche Waard started to work enthusiastically on biodiversity in their own area. A great number of plans have been... more

Perennial field margins with combined agronomical and ecological benefits for vegetable rotation schemes (HortLink HL0192)

Non-crop vegetation in agricultural landscapes can provide a range of important ecological services, including conservation of native flora/fauna and the enhancement of... more