EuroDairy – Biodiversity

EuroDairy aims to identify current practices and new opportunities to maintain or enhance biodiversity on dairy farms. The objective is to establish and demonstrate how biodiversity can be maintained and enhanced within sustainable dairy farming systems.

The dairy sector utilises the largest quantity of land within the EU (over 50 million hectares).

One of the main challenges to sustainable intensification is to balance productivity with the maintenance and enhancement of biodiversity.

Within participating countries and regions, there is a wide range of landscapes, production systems (including high nature value grassland) and localised environmental biodiversity drivers.

This provides an opportunity to analyse how biodiversity can be maintained and improved, through specific management interventions or by balancing the environmental goods and services required on a whole farm basis, e.g. through ‘land sharing’ or ‘land sparing’.

This project has received funding from the European Union`s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 696364.