Stephanie Morren
Senior policy officer
I work for the RSPB as a senior policy officer and am passionate about wildlife and the countryside. I love hearing about all the inspiring ways farmers are supporting biodiversity and want to do my best to ensure that policies support sustainable farming. In my previous role I worked on projects supporting farmland species recovery, including the iconic turtle dove and lapwing.
Author contributions
Nature-based Integrated Pest Management – hints, tips and more
"We set out to create some easy to follow but detailed resources that would help farmers, growers and other land managers to increase their use of nature-based Integrated Pest Management (IPM) - no matter where on this journey they currently are. This blog highlights what’s in these resources, and where people can go to find them."
Sharing farmer knowledge across the farming sector on ways to work with nature to reduce pesticide use
This project brings together nature-friendly IPM and pesticide reduction work that has already been implemented by innovative farmers, and shares this with other farmers, focussing on the practical things that farmers can do, and the benefits that these changes bring to farm businesses.
Call out to farmers to take part in a survey about IPM and what it means to you!
As we move towards new land management schemes that will pay farmers for delivering public goods, it is a good time to make whole-farm changes that will lead to pesticides not being relied upon in the way they often are currently.