Samen voor Biodiversiteit: Report on green-blue veining
The creation of new landscape features, such as unfertilised edges and hedgerows along ditches, offers opportunities for addressing the major challenges that need to be tackled in rural areas. That is why the target has been set to restore 10% of the rural area with these landscape features by 2050. To achieve this, it is important that the landscape also becomes part of the agricultural business again, with farmers being paid for these “landscape services”.
On Wednesday 2 July 2025, during the double symposium Brabants Bodem & Brabant Behaagt in Boxtel, the report ‘Doordacht Dooraderd’ (Thoughtfully Veined) was presented to Louise Vet, chair of the Delta Plan for Biodiversity Recovery. The report, coordinated by Carlo Braat of Brabants Landschap, offers concrete tools for the green-blue integration of agricultural areas in The Netherlands, with the aim of strengthening biodiversity and making the landscape more sustainable.
The (Dutch language) report contains summaries of various sub-reports that outline possible financial and policy instruments that could contribute to green-blue infrastructure. The sub-reports can also be found on the Samen voor Biodiversiteit website, organised by theme. All the associated links to reports and recommendations together form the building blocks of the toolkit that is intended to give an impulse to the realisation of new green-blue infrastructure on agricultural land in The Netherlands.
