Hope Farm Case Study (1A): Stakeholder Workshop

Hope Farm is developing new farming techniques for wildlife-friendly farming.

SYBERAC Stakeholder Engagement Workshop, 16 July 2024: Case Study 1a, Hope Farm, Cambridgeshire UK

Case Study 1a at Hope Farm in Cambridgeshire (UK) is a collaboration between the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) that aims to understand how pesticides affect non-target organisms like moths, spiders and earthworms living in/around agricultural fields.

Researchers, policy coordinators and practitioners from UKCEH and the RSPB attended a stakeholder engagement workshop on 16 July 2024 to discuss the challenges of quantifying non-target effects of pesticide pollution. Participants agreed that incomplete knowledge is one of the biggest problems we face because it leads to action being taken with incomplete data.

The main output from this workshop was the formulation of the following fundamental objective for the Hope Farm case study:
“to develop a strategy, co-designed with stakeholders, to perform a rapid, cost-effective, and widely applicable Weight of Evidence procedure for prioritising evidence from synthesis to support agricultural decisions”.