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Biodiversity

Biodiversity is a key component of sustainable land management. On-farm management can significantly increase biodiversity and help increase the number of farmland birds, mammals, beneficial insects, butterflies, amphibians and wildflowers. HGCA is committed to helping farmers achieve this whilst maintaining economically sustainable production.

Current projects

• RD-2004-3137 Farm4bio - Managing uncropped land in order to enhance biodiversity benefits of the arable farmed landscape [LK 0971] 
  Link to Farm4bio project website
  Link to brief project summary
• RD-2007-3391 Perennial field margins with combined ecological and agronomical benefits for vegetable rotation schemes (Details will be available soon)

Completed projects

• Project Report 356 - Managing biodiversity in field margins to enhance integrated pest control in arable crops (3-D Farming Project)
• RD-2002-2617 Sustainable Arable Farming for an Improved Environment (SAFFIE, LK0926)
• Project Report 336 - Novel strategies for aphid control using entomopathogenic fungi
• Research Review 62 Spatially variable herbicide application technology; opportunities for herbicide minimisation and protection of beneficial weeds
• Research Review 64 - Importance of arthropod pests and their natural enemies in relation to recent farming practice changes in the UK
• Research Review 46 Pesticides and birds: a report on the evidence for changes in farmland bird populations and the proposals for a pesticide tax