Methodology to include farmland habitats in sustainability assessments

A new Teagasc publication to be published in the Irish Journal of Agricultural and Food Research outlines the development of scalable methods to include farmland habitats in sustainability assessments. Here, I give a brief 'taster' of the content of that paper, and an overview of the approach that is based on categorising farmland habitats using satellite imagery. 

 

Farming for Nature: the role of Results-Based Payments 

A new book published by Teagasc and the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) (www.teagasc.ie/farmingfornature) highlights several Irish case studies of results-based payments for biodiversity conservation.

 

 

The EU Biodiversity Strategy: on the path to biodiversity recovery by 2030

John Finn and Daire Ó hUallacháin

The EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 has proposed a number of challenging targets that will inform policy, practice and research for the coming decades. Here, John Finn and Daire Ó hUallacháin highlight the main features of the Biodiversity Strategy, and focus on those that are most relevant to agriculture.