The transition to some Agricultural practices that protect biodiversity need spaces where farmers themselves can dialogue, support and share dialogue Useful knowledge based on science.
With this transforming mind, The European Framework Project is launching the Recodo platform, A multilingual digital space aimed at all those people who focus on guiding, maintaining or repairing agricultural ecosystems and landscapes. Curvature It offers open access to materials, ranging from books, guides with good practices and scientific publications, to events, software and databases.
But Curvature No It only facilitates these sources, but also makes it visible and promotes the cluster model Van Boeren (in English, Farmers Clusters) that has already implemented the Framework Project in 10 European countries.
This model It suggests that the farmers of each region are taking the initiative in protecting biodiversity And that, thanks to a facilitator figure, they can work together to identify and resolve common problems with the help of science and local actors.
Among other things, promotions promote these clusters a biodiversity monitoring program on the farms for which they have the help of experts and civil scientific campaigns. In that sense, Creaf researchers in the Grumets Group, Joan Masó and Berta Giralt, They were in charge of creating the Recodo data centerA catalog that thoroughly collects the geospatial and biodiversity data from the various clusters and makes it accessible to all interested parties.
How does a farmer’s cluster work?
It has could verify that when techniques that improve biodiversity are applied In a concrete farm, the benefits naturally extend to adjacent countries. Consequently, an agricultural ecosystem that is rich in biodiversity must have large and well -connected habitats.
These were the keys that gave life in the United Kingdom in 2015 to the concept of farmers or farmer’s cluster cluster. The idea consists of Avoid insulation by creating agricultural communities They support and motivate each other to improve the ecological health of their farms.