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The relationship between agriculture and biodiversity conservation has long been fraught with tensions and conflicts of interest. To address this, national landcare associations (LCAs) work with farmers...

Agriculture is one of the important sectors in transforming the European economy and society towards a long-term sustainability. While contributing to this transition, European farmers will at the same time face...

The EEA’s knowledge work relies on high-quality data. Through our network and other institutional partners across 38 European countries, we collect, quality-assure and quality-check...

Highlight on the global dimension of the research programme (Cluster 6) The underlying paradigm of Cluster 6 is the need for a transformative change of the EU economy and society to reduce environmental degradation...

The FOSC consortium consists out of 28 partners from Europe, Africa and Latin America. FOSC pulls together resources for a joint research programme and is supported by the European Commission...

There is an increasing attention on Nature-based Solutions (NBS) to address social and environmental challenges in Europe, including the control of excess nutrients conveyed by agricultural regions. Indeed, the excess...

Europe's biodiversity continues to be shaped by human activity. Pressures to habitats and species remain high and more than 67 000 individual pressures have been reported...

While global food chains, market competition, industrial processes and increasing productivity have turned agriculture into a profitable economic sector, it is also one of the biggest...

Copernicus has become instrumental in monitoring vineyards for optimised and more sustainable agricultural practices.

Despite the evidence concerning the substantial greenhouse gases emissions resulting from animal-based food production, climate policies and institutions around the world have barely made an issue...