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Agri-environment schemes promote organic farming in an attempt to reduce the negative effects of agricultural intensification on farmland biodiversity...

In Europe, agri-environmental schemes (AES) have been unsuccessful in halting biodiversity declines to any great extent. Two shortcomings of AES inclu...

Crop diversification has been introduced as an environmental strategy in the 'Greening' of the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) for 2015-2020. The ...

Farmland biodiversity benefits pollination, biological control and other key ecosystem services. Food safety has been seen as an exception to this bro...

The magnitude of the benefits derived from organic farming within contrasting managed landscapes remains unclear and, in particular, the potential sca...

Wind farms generate little or no pollution. However, one of their main adverse impacts is bird mortality through collisions with turbine rotors. Envir...

The effectiveness of organic farming on biodiversity has been widely documented especially for plants, arthropods and birds; however, the effects of t...

The intensification of farming practices exerts detrimental effects on biodiversity. Most research has focused on declines in species richness at loca...

Conventional farming has been implicated in global biodiversity and pollinator declines and organic farming is often regarded as a more ecological alt...

Agricultural expansion and intensification have resulted in strong declines in farmland biodiversity across Europe. In many intensively farmed landsca...