Project
Restoring Biodiversity
A major part of ecosystem restoration as envisioned in the EU Nature Restoration Law will take place in agrarian ecosystems. This requires changes from farmers, supply chain actors, consumers, policy and science. In this project we will use the concept ‘Living with Nature’ to enhance transformative potential.
The aim of this project is to embed disciplinary expertise of agroecology and biodiversity restoration within societal approaches that can scale impact. This will be achieved via two objectives:
(1) develop evaluation and learning tools to enhance the transformative potential of Living Labs for restoring nature in and around agricultural landscapes. This is made up of the following activities for 2025:
1.1: Connect with Agroecology Living Labs, and analyse how they work with existing networks
1.2: Develop a learning framework to evaluate the transformative potential of Agroecology Living Labs within a network of networks
1.3: Test framework and co-develop indicators for transformative agroecological practices at landscape level
(2) co-create, with policy makers and societal partners, research lines to support a new nature story for the Netherlands. This is made up of the following activities for 2025:
2.1: Draft research lines based on literature review and expert survey
2.2: Science-Policy-(Society) interactions to refine research lines
2.3: Co-developed and finalised research lines to support new nature narratives in the Netherlands and beyond