FRAMEwork / Recodo
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Launching the first Czech Farmer Cluster for farmland biodiversity
2021–2025 (FRAMEwork Horizon 2020 project period; Recodo platform remains available beyond 2025)
THE CHALLENGE
Improving farmland biodiversity can’t be done farm-by-farm only — it needs coordination at landscape level, where habitats, water, and wildlife corridors actually function. Farmers often lack practical support, peer learning, and workable monitoring approaches that make biodiversity actions visible and worth maintaining.
WHAT WE DID
Czech Organics was actively involved in the FRAMEwork community and its Recodo platform — not as a formal project partner, but as an on-the-ground contributor. Jan Trávníček (CEO, Czech Organics) facilitated the first Farmer Cluster in the Czech Republic, based in Velké Hostěrádky (South Moravia), connecting local farmers to the wider European Farmer Cluster Network.The cluster brought farmers together for regular exchange, field-based learning, and joint planning of biodiversity-friendly measures that make sense for production realities. A key part was translating “biodiversity goals” into practical actions — such as creating and managing permanent non-productive biotopes and other landscape elements — and strengthening cooperation between farms and local stakeholders.Recodo supported this work by hosting the wider Farmer Cluster network online and providing guidelines, stories, and resources to help clusters start, run, and share what works.
OUTCOMES & IMPACT
The Czech Farmer Cluster demonstrated that farmer-led collaboration is feasible and attractive in Czech conditions, and can mobilise real action beyond individual farms. It also created a practical prototype for scaling similar clusters to other regions — combining peer learning, landscape-scale coordination, and biodiversity monitoring in a way that farmers can own.
By linking Czech practice to a European network, the cluster helped bring tested approaches, visibility, and shared learning — strengthening the long-term capacity to improve biodiversity while reducing agronomic and economic risk.
PARTNERS / ECOSYSTEM
FRAMEwork community and Farmer Cluster Network • Recodo platform team • Czech University of Life Sciences Prague (supporting environment) • participating farmers and local stakeholders in South Moravia
