This document provides an overview of the PEGASUS project and introduces several case studies being examined. The PEGASUS project receives funding from the EU Horizon 2020 programme to assess how to more effectively provide public goods and ecosystem services from European farmland and forests. It involves multidisciplinary, participatory research through 34 case studies across 10 countries. This document introduces several UK case studies, including Hope Farm, the Allen Valleys Landscape Partnership, care farming, and a project focused on water management in the Upper Thames region. Other European case studies highlighted provide examples of synergies across territories, collective action improving land management, public-private partnerships supporting ecosystem services, and the role of institutional settings in fostering trust.
1.6 LIFE: the EU programme for the Environment & Climate action (A.Burrill)Stevie Swenne
Presentation of Anne Burrill (EU Commission - DG ENV) on 'LIFE: the EU programme for the Environment & Climate action' during the conference 'Environmental challenges & Climate change opportunities' organised by Flanders Environment Agency (VMM)
E2BEBIS - Environmental and Economic Benefits from Biochar Clusters in the Ce...EUDA_ERA
Output from E2Bebis EU project. It highlight the environmental and economic benefits of Environmental from Biochar Clusters
in the Central area of Europe
LA Open Data Incentive Scheme – launch presentation, July 2014LG Inform Plus
This document provides an overview of a Local Authority Incentive Scheme to encourage more local authorities to publish open data. It outlines the agenda for an event to launch the scheme, including presentations on the benefits of open data, examples of economic impact, and details of the scheme and how local authorities can apply for funding. Local authorities will be incentivized to publish key datasets around public conveniences, planning, and licenses to make the data more consistent, accessible and help address common Freedom of Information requests.
The document summarizes a presentation given by Jackson M. Kimani from the William J. Clinton Foundation about their Carbon and Poverty Reduction Program grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. The grant objectives are to develop REDD+ projects emphasizing forest conservation and carbon sequestration while improving livelihoods. Key activities include establishing MRV systems and launching forestry projects in East Africa and Southeast Asia. Progress includes feasibility assessments, seedling planting, and draft project design documents in Kenya while legalizing community forest ownership in Tanzania. Challenges include scaling up projects and ensuring equitable benefit sharing.
1.6 LIFE: the EU programme for the Environment & Climate action (A.Burrill)Stevie Swenne
Presentation of Anne Burrill (EU Commission - DG ENV) on 'LIFE: the EU programme for the Environment & Climate action' during the conference 'Environmental challenges & Climate change opportunities' organised by Flanders Environment Agency (VMM)
E2BEBIS - Environmental and Economic Benefits from Biochar Clusters in the Ce...EUDA_ERA
Output from E2Bebis EU project. It highlight the environmental and economic benefits of Environmental from Biochar Clusters
in the Central area of Europe
LA Open Data Incentive Scheme – launch presentation, July 2014LG Inform Plus
This document provides an overview of a Local Authority Incentive Scheme to encourage more local authorities to publish open data. It outlines the agenda for an event to launch the scheme, including presentations on the benefits of open data, examples of economic impact, and details of the scheme and how local authorities can apply for funding. Local authorities will be incentivized to publish key datasets around public conveniences, planning, and licenses to make the data more consistent, accessible and help address common Freedom of Information requests.
The document summarizes a presentation given by Jackson M. Kimani from the William J. Clinton Foundation about their Carbon and Poverty Reduction Program grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. The grant objectives are to develop REDD+ projects emphasizing forest conservation and carbon sequestration while improving livelihoods. Key activities include establishing MRV systems and launching forestry projects in East Africa and Southeast Asia. Progress includes feasibility assessments, seedling planting, and draft project design documents in Kenya while legalizing community forest ownership in Tanzania. Challenges include scaling up projects and ensuring equitable benefit sharing.
RB-COSOP workshop laos 270416-revised with participants commentsifadseahub
The document outlines IFAD's Country Strategic Opportunities Programme for Lao PDR from 2017 to 2021. It provides context on the country's socioeconomic situation and agriculture sector. Key challenges include climate change, rural poverty, and smallholder farmers' access to opportunities and resources. The strategy will continue supporting smallholder production, inclusive market access, and policy engagement through three strategic objectives. It aims to improve food security and climate-smart agriculture, market access and value chains, and the enabling environment through policy work and capacity building. The strategy was developed through stakeholder consultations and aims to align with national development plans and priorities.
Slides from the 2nd day of the European Nutrient Event, 19 october 2017, Basel: http://www.nweurope.eu/projects/project-search/phos4you-phosphorus-recovery-from-waste-water-for-your-life/
More information on www.phosphorusplatform.eu/R&D
European Sustainable Phosphorus Platform (ESPP)
www.phosphorusplatform.eu
Sustainable management of nutrients is crucial for agriculture, food, industry, water and the environment. ESPP brings together companies and stakeholders to address the Phosphorus Challenge and its opportunities for the circular economy.
Countries:
Austria AT
Belgium BE
Bulgaria BG
Cyprus CY
Czech Republic CZ
Germany DE
Denmark DK
Estonia EE
Spain ES
Finland FI
France FR
Greece EL
Hungary HU
Ireland IE
Italy IT
Lithuania LT
Luxembourg LU
Latvia LV
Malta MT
Netherlands NL
Poland PL
Portugal PT
Romania RO
Sweden SE
Slovenia SI
Slovakia SK
United Kingdom UK
Switzerland CH
Phosphorus:
Fosfor
Fosfor
Fòsfòr
Фосфор
Fosfor
Фосфор
Fosfor
Fosfor
Фосфор
Фосфор
Fosforas
Fosfors
Fuosfuors
Fosfor
Ffуsfforws
Fosfar
Fosfaras
Fosfaar
Fosforus
Φωσφορος
Ֆոսֆոր
Fosfor
Fosfor
Фосфор
Фосфор
ফসফরাস
فسفر
ફૉસ્ફરસનો
फास्फोरस
Fosfor
Fosfori
Foszfor
Фосфор
Фосфор
Паликандур
Fosfor
Fosfor
Фосфор
Фосфор
Фосфор
Фосфор
Fosfor
فوسفور
Fosfor
Fosforoa
ფოსფორი
[fūsfūr]
זרחן
Fosfru
Lìn
リン
인
ฟอสฟอรัส
Photpho
磷
Posporo
Fosfor
Pūtūtae-whetū
Fosforus
ഫോസ്ഫറസ്
பொஸ்பரசு
Fosofo
Fosforase
Posfori
Fósforo
Phusphuru
Fosforimi
Fosforo
Fosforon
Pesticium
Presented by Wilfred Appelman (TNO) at FERTINNOWA's 2nd International workshop "Meeting growers’ needs: Exchanging Technologies on Irrigation and Fertigation"
Description: To what point are existing regulations efficient or how regulations deal with the sustainability of the present agricultural production models in terms of water and fertiliser´s use is one of the key questions arising. An inventory of water regulations in Europe, country and region scale, has been performed to detect gaps in policy and possible inconsistencies in its application.
This document summarizes the Water and Integrated Local Delivery (WILD) project in the United Kingdom. The project uses local facilitation to develop partnerships between farmers, communities, NGOs, and private companies to improve the water and land environment. It focuses on priorities like water quality, flood protection, and biodiversity. Key findings include evidence that the project has improved water quality and rural vitality while facing challenges around flood resilience and species decline. The roles of collective learning, organizational capacity, and public-private partnerships in supporting environmental goals are also examined.
The document discusses reforms needed for the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). It argues that the current CAP status quo is no longer sufficient to address environmental and climate challenges. It recommends putting society at the center of the CAP and focusing payments on performance to deliver environmental and climate outcomes. It analyzes proposals from the European Commission to reform the CAP, noting opportunities but also risks of low ambition. It emphasizes the need for political will, robust monitoring and accountability mechanisms, and thinking beyond the CAP to achieve Europe's 2030 sustainability goals.
Innovative and inclusive approaches to global livestock developmentm.mangiafico
This document discusses communities of practice (COPs) for improving livestock development and research. It summarizes the successes and missed opportunities of the Inter-Agency Donor Group (IADG), an informal COP formed in 2000 to foster collaboration between livestock donors. The IADG has increased information sharing and identified priority issues, but has missed opportunities to harness donor potential to address these issues due to short-term political agendas and donor interests. The document also notes a lack of investment in marketing research findings and redundant approaches for applying research.
The document discusses the Club of Ossiach, which focuses on adopting information and communication technologies (ICT) in agriculture. The Club recognizes that ICT can support rural sustainability through innovations that benefit stakeholders across agricultural supply chains. The Club also sees opportunities for ICT to enable knowledge sharing and cooperative management of environmental and risk issues. The document proposes an ICT-enabled infrastructure and advisory model to help farmers, advisors and other stakeholders work together on integrated farm management, regional solutions, and establishing a national "trust center" for open data and partnerships. The aim is to promote inclusive and sustainable agriculture through coordinated ICT adoption and knowledge sharing.
Abdul Hamid Rhametalla - The Smallholder Farmers & Food Security in SudanAhmed Ali
The EU-funded Sudan Food Security Programme aimed to improve food security and livelihoods for rural smallholders in four Sudanese states. Over 5,000 farmers in each state received support through international and national NGOs. Key results included improved agricultural practices increasing production by 10-15 sacks per feddan, established producer associations linking farmers to markets and credit, and over 2,000 farmers accessing loans. The program collaborated with local institutions, private sector, and built community organizations. Challenges included limited government support for smallholders, relief mentalities, governance issues for farmer groups, and private sector inexperience working with smallholders.
- EU agriculture faces challenges from increasing costs of fossil fuels, growing global food demand, climate change impacts, declining rural populations, and reduced public financing.
- Innovation is needed to make agriculture more resource efficient and sustainable while maintaining rural livelihoods. This requires stronger research-practice partnerships, farmer training networks, and collaborative projects.
- Successful examples include government programs linking research and industry in Germany, farmer-led learning hubs in Wales, and integrated territorial development plans in Southern Italy. Enabling rather than restrictive policies can promote innovation.
The EU's Biodiversity Strategy: Opportunities and moving forwardCéline Charveriat
The EU's Biodiversity strategy aims to bring nature back into people's lives to benefit mental health and well-being. Poor mental health costs Europe over €600 billion per year. Protected natural areas can provide mental health benefits worth €5.55 trillion globally and job creation. The strategy's success requires effective long-term planning, management on the ground, policy coherence, and sufficient investment. Nature-based solutions that benefit biodiversity, climate, and socioeconomic recovery should be prioritized.
Connecting livestock keepers in Eastern Africa to markets to enhance resilienceILRI
- The document discusses a proposed project to connect livestock keepers in Eastern Africa to markets to enhance resilience.
- The project aims to address issues like livestock keepers' inability to participate in and exploit national and regional livestock markets and emerging livestock insurance opportunities. It also seeks to improve scanty information on informal cross-border livestock trade.
- The proposed project would take place in Uganda, Kenya, and South Ethiopia over 2-3 years with a budget of €1,209,677 from CTA and ILRI. Partners include private sector insurers, World Vision, and Mercy Corps.
The document summarizes developments in animal welfare (AW) policies in the European Union over the past 40 years. It outlines key milestones like the inclusion of AW in the EU Treaty in 1999 and the establishment of the first Community Action Plan in 2006. The Action Plan aimed to upgrade standards, promote research, introduce AW indicators, and increase public involvement. In 2010, the European Parliament supported the achievements but called for a new EU Strategy to further integrate and enforce AW policies through a framework law, reference centers, and equivalent import standards. The new Strategy recognizes consumers' influence and aims to simplify regulation through outcome-based indicators, transparency, and competence requirements.
This document provides information on EU funding opportunities for environmental NGOs in Northern Ireland. It discusses budget cuts affecting the environmental sector in Northern Ireland. To help environmental NGOs access alternative funding, the document researches eight relevant EU funding programs, including the LIFE Program and INTERREG programs. It establishes criteria for presenting program information and provides sample factsheets summarizing the LIFE Program, outlining its objectives, funding available, eligible projects and regions, and application process. The factsheets were created to promote EU funding opportunities to environmental NGOs.
This presentation was given by the European Commission on a position paper for the UK on future of structural funds 2014-2020.
This presentation was given in London on 6 December 2012.
Find out more about the NCVO's european policy work: http://europeanfundingnetwork.eu
The document discusses partnering with the private sector to promote sustainable forest management and natural capital. It outlines UNDP's private sector strategy and focuses on the Africa Facility for Inclusive Markets (AFIM) which uses a value chain approach to support inclusive business models in food value chains. AFIM provides catalytic grants to projects targeting smallholder farmers and aims to benefit over 11,000 people annually. It also discusses mainstreaming sustainability and resilience in food value chains and commodity supply chains through multi-stakeholder platforms and national commodity platforms.
This document summarizes the FERTINNOWA project which aims to improve irrigation and fertilization management for fruit, vegetable, and ornamental growers in Europe. The project conducted a survey of over 500 farming operations across 10 countries to identify bottlenecks and needs regarding water and nutrient use. Key findings included a lack of sustainable water sources, limited monitoring of water and nutrient use, and challenges implementing new technologies. The project is working to address these issues through knowledge sharing between partners and implementing solutions in the field over 1-2 years. The goal is to bridge the gap between available innovations and their adoption by growers.
Building Agricultural Carbon Projects: Participatory Action Research in Kenya...EcoAgriculture Partners
Carbon projects with smallholder farmers in developing countries have begun to emerge to take advantage of carbon-finance to support the broader benefits of climate-smart agriculture (Goldstein and Gonzalez 2014; Deshmukh, Sosis, and Pinjuv 2014).
But problems remain with high costs of project development, risk management, and securing benefits for smallholder farmers (Shames, Buck, and Scherr 2011)
Strengthening local institutional capacity in 4 KEY AREAS could increase long-term development benefits, reduce project costs and help initiatives to scale up (Shames, et al 2013).
Presentation by Dr Olu Ajayi from CTA, at the Regional planning meeting on ‘Scaling-Up Climate-Smart Agricultural Solutions for Cereals and Livestock Farmers in Southern Africa – Building partnership for successful implementation’,13–15 September 2016, Johannesburg, South Africa
Sania Dzalbe is a PhD student in economic geography at Umeå University in Sweden who studies how people in rural areas adapt to crisis and adversity. Drawing from her upbringing in rural Latvia, she notes the importance of social reproduction in sustaining rural livelihoods, which often goes overlooked in traditional regional economic analysis. She argues that the concept of resilience is connected to the concept of loss, as during moments of crisis and major restructuring, societies lose not only jobs and industries but also the very mechanisms through which they shape their environment, both physically and socially. Current resilience studies in economic geography tend to disregard the role of social reproduction and the losses experienced by individuals by predominantly focusing on firms and economic production. However, to understand the evolution of rural regions and communities amid various challenges they face, one must recognize that social reproduction cannot be separated from economic and knowledge production processes.
A presentation of participatory research methods and how CCRI has used them over time throughto the Living Labs approach now in use in a number of our grant funded research projects.
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The document outlines IFAD's Country Strategic Opportunities Programme for Lao PDR from 2017 to 2021. It provides context on the country's socioeconomic situation and agriculture sector. Key challenges include climate change, rural poverty, and smallholder farmers' access to opportunities and resources. The strategy will continue supporting smallholder production, inclusive market access, and policy engagement through three strategic objectives. It aims to improve food security and climate-smart agriculture, market access and value chains, and the enabling environment through policy work and capacity building. The strategy was developed through stakeholder consultations and aims to align with national development plans and priorities.
Slides from the 2nd day of the European Nutrient Event, 19 october 2017, Basel: http://www.nweurope.eu/projects/project-search/phos4you-phosphorus-recovery-from-waste-water-for-your-life/
More information on www.phosphorusplatform.eu/R&D
European Sustainable Phosphorus Platform (ESPP)
www.phosphorusplatform.eu
Sustainable management of nutrients is crucial for agriculture, food, industry, water and the environment. ESPP brings together companies and stakeholders to address the Phosphorus Challenge and its opportunities for the circular economy.
Countries:
Austria AT
Belgium BE
Bulgaria BG
Cyprus CY
Czech Republic CZ
Germany DE
Denmark DK
Estonia EE
Spain ES
Finland FI
France FR
Greece EL
Hungary HU
Ireland IE
Italy IT
Lithuania LT
Luxembourg LU
Latvia LV
Malta MT
Netherlands NL
Poland PL
Portugal PT
Romania RO
Sweden SE
Slovenia SI
Slovakia SK
United Kingdom UK
Switzerland CH
Phosphorus:
Fosfor
Fosfor
Fòsfòr
Фосфор
Fosfor
Фосфор
Fosfor
Fosfor
Фосфор
Фосфор
Fosforas
Fosfors
Fuosfuors
Fosfor
Ffуsfforws
Fosfar
Fosfaras
Fosfaar
Fosforus
Φωσφορος
Ֆոսֆոր
Fosfor
Fosfor
Фосфор
Фосфор
ফসফরাস
فسفر
ફૉસ્ફરસનો
फास्फोरस
Fosfor
Fosfori
Foszfor
Фосфор
Фосфор
Паликандур
Fosfor
Fosfor
Фосфор
Фосфор
Фосфор
Фосфор
Fosfor
فوسفور
Fosfor
Fosforoa
ფოსფორი
[fūsfūr]
זרחן
Fosfru
Lìn
リン
인
ฟอสฟอรัส
Photpho
磷
Posporo
Fosfor
Pūtūtae-whetū
Fosforus
ഫോസ്ഫറസ്
பொஸ்பரசு
Fosofo
Fosforase
Posfori
Fósforo
Phusphuru
Fosforimi
Fosforo
Fosforon
Pesticium
Presented by Wilfred Appelman (TNO) at FERTINNOWA's 2nd International workshop "Meeting growers’ needs: Exchanging Technologies on Irrigation and Fertigation"
Description: To what point are existing regulations efficient or how regulations deal with the sustainability of the present agricultural production models in terms of water and fertiliser´s use is one of the key questions arising. An inventory of water regulations in Europe, country and region scale, has been performed to detect gaps in policy and possible inconsistencies in its application.
This document summarizes the Water and Integrated Local Delivery (WILD) project in the United Kingdom. The project uses local facilitation to develop partnerships between farmers, communities, NGOs, and private companies to improve the water and land environment. It focuses on priorities like water quality, flood protection, and biodiversity. Key findings include evidence that the project has improved water quality and rural vitality while facing challenges around flood resilience and species decline. The roles of collective learning, organizational capacity, and public-private partnerships in supporting environmental goals are also examined.
The document discusses reforms needed for the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). It argues that the current CAP status quo is no longer sufficient to address environmental and climate challenges. It recommends putting society at the center of the CAP and focusing payments on performance to deliver environmental and climate outcomes. It analyzes proposals from the European Commission to reform the CAP, noting opportunities but also risks of low ambition. It emphasizes the need for political will, robust monitoring and accountability mechanisms, and thinking beyond the CAP to achieve Europe's 2030 sustainability goals.
Innovative and inclusive approaches to global livestock developmentm.mangiafico
This document discusses communities of practice (COPs) for improving livestock development and research. It summarizes the successes and missed opportunities of the Inter-Agency Donor Group (IADG), an informal COP formed in 2000 to foster collaboration between livestock donors. The IADG has increased information sharing and identified priority issues, but has missed opportunities to harness donor potential to address these issues due to short-term political agendas and donor interests. The document also notes a lack of investment in marketing research findings and redundant approaches for applying research.
The document discusses the Club of Ossiach, which focuses on adopting information and communication technologies (ICT) in agriculture. The Club recognizes that ICT can support rural sustainability through innovations that benefit stakeholders across agricultural supply chains. The Club also sees opportunities for ICT to enable knowledge sharing and cooperative management of environmental and risk issues. The document proposes an ICT-enabled infrastructure and advisory model to help farmers, advisors and other stakeholders work together on integrated farm management, regional solutions, and establishing a national "trust center" for open data and partnerships. The aim is to promote inclusive and sustainable agriculture through coordinated ICT adoption and knowledge sharing.
Abdul Hamid Rhametalla - The Smallholder Farmers & Food Security in SudanAhmed Ali
The EU-funded Sudan Food Security Programme aimed to improve food security and livelihoods for rural smallholders in four Sudanese states. Over 5,000 farmers in each state received support through international and national NGOs. Key results included improved agricultural practices increasing production by 10-15 sacks per feddan, established producer associations linking farmers to markets and credit, and over 2,000 farmers accessing loans. The program collaborated with local institutions, private sector, and built community organizations. Challenges included limited government support for smallholders, relief mentalities, governance issues for farmer groups, and private sector inexperience working with smallholders.
- EU agriculture faces challenges from increasing costs of fossil fuels, growing global food demand, climate change impacts, declining rural populations, and reduced public financing.
- Innovation is needed to make agriculture more resource efficient and sustainable while maintaining rural livelihoods. This requires stronger research-practice partnerships, farmer training networks, and collaborative projects.
- Successful examples include government programs linking research and industry in Germany, farmer-led learning hubs in Wales, and integrated territorial development plans in Southern Italy. Enabling rather than restrictive policies can promote innovation.
The EU's Biodiversity Strategy: Opportunities and moving forwardCéline Charveriat
The EU's Biodiversity strategy aims to bring nature back into people's lives to benefit mental health and well-being. Poor mental health costs Europe over €600 billion per year. Protected natural areas can provide mental health benefits worth €5.55 trillion globally and job creation. The strategy's success requires effective long-term planning, management on the ground, policy coherence, and sufficient investment. Nature-based solutions that benefit biodiversity, climate, and socioeconomic recovery should be prioritized.
Connecting livestock keepers in Eastern Africa to markets to enhance resilienceILRI
- The document discusses a proposed project to connect livestock keepers in Eastern Africa to markets to enhance resilience.
- The project aims to address issues like livestock keepers' inability to participate in and exploit national and regional livestock markets and emerging livestock insurance opportunities. It also seeks to improve scanty information on informal cross-border livestock trade.
- The proposed project would take place in Uganda, Kenya, and South Ethiopia over 2-3 years with a budget of €1,209,677 from CTA and ILRI. Partners include private sector insurers, World Vision, and Mercy Corps.
The document summarizes developments in animal welfare (AW) policies in the European Union over the past 40 years. It outlines key milestones like the inclusion of AW in the EU Treaty in 1999 and the establishment of the first Community Action Plan in 2006. The Action Plan aimed to upgrade standards, promote research, introduce AW indicators, and increase public involvement. In 2010, the European Parliament supported the achievements but called for a new EU Strategy to further integrate and enforce AW policies through a framework law, reference centers, and equivalent import standards. The new Strategy recognizes consumers' influence and aims to simplify regulation through outcome-based indicators, transparency, and competence requirements.
This document provides information on EU funding opportunities for environmental NGOs in Northern Ireland. It discusses budget cuts affecting the environmental sector in Northern Ireland. To help environmental NGOs access alternative funding, the document researches eight relevant EU funding programs, including the LIFE Program and INTERREG programs. It establishes criteria for presenting program information and provides sample factsheets summarizing the LIFE Program, outlining its objectives, funding available, eligible projects and regions, and application process. The factsheets were created to promote EU funding opportunities to environmental NGOs.
This presentation was given by the European Commission on a position paper for the UK on future of structural funds 2014-2020.
This presentation was given in London on 6 December 2012.
Find out more about the NCVO's european policy work: http://europeanfundingnetwork.eu
The document discusses partnering with the private sector to promote sustainable forest management and natural capital. It outlines UNDP's private sector strategy and focuses on the Africa Facility for Inclusive Markets (AFIM) which uses a value chain approach to support inclusive business models in food value chains. AFIM provides catalytic grants to projects targeting smallholder farmers and aims to benefit over 11,000 people annually. It also discusses mainstreaming sustainability and resilience in food value chains and commodity supply chains through multi-stakeholder platforms and national commodity platforms.
This document summarizes the FERTINNOWA project which aims to improve irrigation and fertilization management for fruit, vegetable, and ornamental growers in Europe. The project conducted a survey of over 500 farming operations across 10 countries to identify bottlenecks and needs regarding water and nutrient use. Key findings included a lack of sustainable water sources, limited monitoring of water and nutrient use, and challenges implementing new technologies. The project is working to address these issues through knowledge sharing between partners and implementing solutions in the field over 1-2 years. The goal is to bridge the gap between available innovations and their adoption by growers.
Building Agricultural Carbon Projects: Participatory Action Research in Kenya...EcoAgriculture Partners
Carbon projects with smallholder farmers in developing countries have begun to emerge to take advantage of carbon-finance to support the broader benefits of climate-smart agriculture (Goldstein and Gonzalez 2014; Deshmukh, Sosis, and Pinjuv 2014).
But problems remain with high costs of project development, risk management, and securing benefits for smallholder farmers (Shames, Buck, and Scherr 2011)
Strengthening local institutional capacity in 4 KEY AREAS could increase long-term development benefits, reduce project costs and help initiatives to scale up (Shames, et al 2013).
Presentation by Dr Olu Ajayi from CTA, at the Regional planning meeting on ‘Scaling-Up Climate-Smart Agricultural Solutions for Cereals and Livestock Farmers in Southern Africa – Building partnership for successful implementation’,13–15 September 2016, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Sania Dzalbe is a PhD student in economic geography at Umeå University in Sweden who studies how people in rural areas adapt to crisis and adversity. Drawing from her upbringing in rural Latvia, she notes the importance of social reproduction in sustaining rural livelihoods, which often goes overlooked in traditional regional economic analysis. She argues that the concept of resilience is connected to the concept of loss, as during moments of crisis and major restructuring, societies lose not only jobs and industries but also the very mechanisms through which they shape their environment, both physically and socially. Current resilience studies in economic geography tend to disregard the role of social reproduction and the losses experienced by individuals by predominantly focusing on firms and economic production. However, to understand the evolution of rural regions and communities amid various challenges they face, one must recognize that social reproduction cannot be separated from economic and knowledge production processes.
A presentation of participatory research methods and how CCRI has used them over time throughto the Living Labs approach now in use in a number of our grant funded research projects.
This presentation introduces the UK Treescapes Ambassador team and the research projects and research fellows they have funded under the programme.
The presentation also looks at some of the research being carried out at the CCRI on Trees, Woods and Forests.
This presentation highlights key methods and issues arising from the research in the EU Horizon funded projects MINAGRIS and SPRINT regading the presence and effect of pesticides and plastics in the soil.
This presentation considers the changing policy environment for public funding of agri-environment, the shift from entitlements to action-based funding and 'public good' outcomes, using a 'Test and Trials' case study.
Footage for the associated seminar: https://youtu.be/Z0Hkt7Sf0VA
The talk will focus on the current state of soil governance in Australia, alongside the recently released National Soil Strategy and debate how knowledge exchange on sustainable soil management is progressing. The need to maintain a healthy and functioning soil that is resilient and less vulnerable to climate change and land degradation is an ever-present goal. Yet to achieve this goal requires a critical mass of soil scientists who can effectively undertake research and more importantly people who can communicate such knowledge to farmers so that soil is protected through the use of landscape-appropriate practices. Decades of government de-investment and privatisation have led to a diminished and fragmented workforce that is distant from, rather than part of, the rural community, and farmers are also increasingly isolated with few functional social networks for knowledge exchange. Is it possible to chart a course that can see this decline in expertise and local soil knowledge corrected, and restore to it vitality and legitimacy?
Presentation made to CCRI as part of our seminar series. Footage of seminar: https://youtu.be/tWcArqtqxjI
Latvian meadows are inextricably connected to the Latvian identity. An identity built on the concept of the industrious peasant working their own land, free from the oppression of tyrannical regimes. This cultural association also feeds into the mid-summer festivals as the women weave the flower-filled crowns and people collect herbal teas to ward off illness over the winter. These biodiverse havens are under threat, as they are neglected or replaced with improved grasslands with their higher yields but lower diversity.
1) The document discusses research into how social and intellectual capital contribute to collective environmental action through Countryside Stewardship Facilitation Fund (CSFF) groups in the UK.
2) Key findings indicate that while CSFF funding aims to develop social capital, most knowledge sharing currently occurs between members with close ties, and there is limited evidence of collective environmental action.
3) Continued support is needed to strengthen relationships, facilitate knowledge exchange across different actor groups, and provide funding to enable CSFF groups to deliver landscape-scale environmental improvements over time.
Professor Ian Hodge's seminar for the CCRI on 24th October 2022.
There are two emergent movements in the governance of rural land: voluntary and local government initiatives that assess, plan and enhance landscape and biodiversity and a largely separate central government initiative for the development of Environmental Land Management (ELM) schemes as a key element of national agricultural policy. This is developed and implemented by central government with a relatively large budget.
These two movements should be better integrated through the development of a system of Local Environmental Governance Organisations (LEGOs). A LEGO would stand as a ‘trustee’ with a remit to protect and enhance the quality of the local environment in the long term. It can assemble evidence on natural capital, co-ordinate amongst stakeholders and work with them to identify local priorities for nature recovery. It would search for synergies and collaborative partnerships and raise funds to support priority projects. A key point is that a proportion of central government funding should be devolved to LEGOs. This would link the vision being developed locally with the capacity to generate financial incentives for land managers to change land management.
Natural Cambridgeshire as the Local Nature Partnership is developing a number of the attributes of a LEGO. It is engaging with and appears to have support from a broad variety of stakeholders and is energising actions at several different levels. Through a local deliberative process, it can have a much clearer view of local opportunities and priorities than can be possible via central government. Natural Cambridgeshire has begun to raise funds but the likelihood is that this is will be too little, relatively short term and unsystematic. Longer term core funding would give Natural Cambridgeshire the capacity to back up proposals with financial support, potentially matching funding from other sources. It would then need to monitor and audit the implementation of projects and report on expenditure and outcomes. Over time it would adopt an adaptive approach to respond to outcomes and changing threats and opportunities.
National government needs to establish a framework for the development and operation of a system of LEGOs. It would continue to act in support of national standards, both through regulation and investment to meet international commitments, such as for biodiversity and climate change.
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Pegasus - National Workshop - Birmingham 23 May 2017
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PEGASUS
‘Public Ecosystem Goods and Services from land
management: unlocking the synergies’
An Introduction
23/5/2017
National workshop, BCU Birmingham
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PEGASUS – an overview
• Overarching objective: to assess and stimulate more
effective provision of public goods and ecosystem services
from EU farmland and forests
– The project is designed to explore key questions about how best to
improve the social and ecological resilience of farming and forestry
systems in the EU through enhancing the sustained provision of
environmental and social benefits.
• Key elements:
– Multidisciplinary
– Participatory
– Action research – 34 case studies in ten European countries
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PEGASUS – partners and country coverage
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Case studies + mapping
Emerging
Findings…
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To find out more….
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pegasus@ieep.eu
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Pegasus Case study UK:
Hope Farm, Cambridgeshire
Janet Dwyer and Rob Field
23/5/2017
National workshop, BCU Birmingham
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Context: the Social-Ecological System
• An NGO-owned arable farm, seeking to test and showcase good
practice for commercial farming that delivers biodiversity and
birds
• Located within a wider, dynamic landscape dotted with informal
networks and innovators working with complementary goals –
water quality, arable innovations for resilience, adding value,
public education and outreach
• The farm’s national pitch to policy achieved limited impact, it is
now seeking a new approach to enhance reach
• Local farmers disenchanted with RSPB presence, actions,
communications around Hope Farm – seen as an imposition
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Actors and drivers
• Key actors: RSPB staff, neighbouring farmers and advisers,
supply chain links, contractors, RSPB HQ strategy teams, RSPB
membership
• Many common aims but few linkages, issues of low trust and
respect between key parties – lack of communication
• Key drivers:
– Commercial - challenges to sustain profitable arable production- resistant
weeds, extreme weather, price and policy instability
– NGO – desire to innovate and spread knowledge / appreciation of
benefits
– Wider policy climate to encourage innovation for more sustainable
agriculture, poor uptake of new Agri-Environment Scheme
– Some growing interest in ‘green’ marketing/labelling, e.g. via
Conservation Grade ‘wildlife-friendly farming’
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Findings and recommendations
• Scope to build a local network of farmers, advisers and agencies
centred on Hope Farm, acting as a test-bed/ experimental site
supporting a farmer learning community, encouraging neighbours
to come together, promoting to the public (via RSPB members)
• Need to overcome barriers to collective action:
• RSPB to enable its staff to work more with other farmers, to share
information and ideas, to invite dialogue and interactive planning
• More communication and outreach with neighbouring environmental
innovators: NT Wimpole, NIAB-TAG, Conservation Grade, leading farmers
• More devolution of decision-making within RSPB’s management of the
farm, to enable more shared ownership of the agenda, locally
• Image matters! Join up goals, words, actions, events, and PR
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Pegasus Case study UK:
Allen Valleys Landscape Partnership
Scheme, Northumberland
Peter Gaskell, Nick Lewis & Rebecca Barrett
23/5/2017
National workshop, BCU Birmingham
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Context: the Social-Ecological System
• Upland landscape in north-east England designated for
biodiversity and landscape quality.
• Existing High Natural Value farming system is under threat.
• AVLPS aims to conserve and restore important heritage assets, to
make them accessible for learning, training and recreation, and
develop capacity within the community to conserve and use
these heritage assets for a more sustainable future.
• The AVLPS is funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) and
delivered by the NPAONB Partnership.
• The Partnership focuses on:
– Capacity building in the local community.
– The social capital delivered by, and required from, farmers and other
landowners in the area and its links to natural and cultural capital.
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Actors and drivers
• Key actors: Farmers, estate landowners, game keepers, AONB
officers, agencies (HLF/NE/EA/CA/WA/landfill tax), local
community activists, LA service providers, livestock markets,
tourism outlets, tourists.
• Key drivers:
– Threat to HNV farming: Economically marginal, low returns from
agricultural enterprises, high dependence CAP Pillar I and II support,
limited opportunities for diversification and an aging farm population.
– Broader socio-economic drivers threatening the sustainability of the
upland communities on which HNV farming depend including pressure
on social services, housing, employment and transport.
– Government support for the AONB has been declining due to ‘austerity’.
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Findings and recommendations
• Action to enhance the provision of ESBOs should encompass both
land managers and the broader communities on which they
depend.
• AVLPS enhances the social and economic resilience of local
communities as well as working with farmers and land managers.
• The NPAONB Partnership has considerable expertise in delivering
positive environmental outcomes from its partnership approach
and facilitation skills.
• A lack of regulatory power has encouraged the Partnership to
think in creative ways to achieve its aims.
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Pegasus Case study UK:
Care Farming
Dan Keech and Ian Egginton-Metters
23/5/2017
National workshop, BCU Birmingham
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@PEGASUS_eu
Context: the Social-Ecological System
• 200+ care farms, most are members of national support network
Care Farming UK.
• CFs offer therapeutic support to people with physical, mental or
social challenges.
• In PEGASUS, CFs studied as a sub-set of agriculture that focuses
on providing health and well-being.
• The main resource is land, but care farms can be in rural or
urban areas; associated with livestock, horticulture or both.
• Recent financial challenges include:
public sector austerity: limits local authorities’ ability to use CFs
reduction of educational subsidy within agri payments.
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Actors and drivers
• Key actors: Care Farming UK, Natural England, local municipal
and health authorities, staff and users of care farms.
• Research indicates CFs highly effective in generating behaviour
change, well-being and skills among a wide range of users:
children, ex-offenders, drug re-hab, elders etc.
• Key drivers:
– Developmental – emerging sector with new professional body
– Operational – spare capacity but many CFs struggle to remain viable
– Public policy – main policy drivers not agri-env subsidy but NHS/social
care and education reforms, public budgets
– Benefits – social benefits clear, environmental benefits less so
– Primary focus may not be commercial food production.
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Findings and recommendations
• Efficacy is well-evidenced and expansion of CF use is to be
encouraged, especially through CFUK membership.
• Care farmers see themselves embedded in agriculture – yet
best opportunities for expanding care farming seem may
come via public health and social policies.
• Support is needed to help care farmers identify with such
social arenas as well as (or instead of?) agri-env arenas.
• Care farming food tells an amazing story – is this food being
optimally marketed (ie. added value)?
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Pegasus Case study UK:
Water & Integrated Local Delivery, Upper Thames
Chris Short and Jenny Phelps
23/5/2017
National workshop, BCU Birmingham
19. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020
research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 633814
@PEGASUS_eu
Context: the Social-Ecological System
• NGO led ‘agency funded’ project to develop inclusive partnership
– farmers, local communities, NGOs & private companies
• WILD meets range of policy priorities with WFD focus,
– to improve the water and land environment through facilitation
• 3 year project 2013-2016 over 26,000 ha, source of the Thames
• Failing for WFD and priority area for action, good local network
• Local facilitation to integrated projects & initiatives
• Linking Agri-environment and local community infrastructure
– Policy & funding opportunities to combine strategic objectives
– Connections aiding communication to resolve (local) issues.
• Recognition of failings in current infrastructure c.f. growth
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Actors and drivers
• Key actors: FWAG (link to farmers); Glos RCC (link to
communities); Cotswold WPT (link to biodiversity); Environment
Agency, Thames Water; farmers and local communities
• Evidence of cross-sectoring thinking and concerns
• Greater understanding of the system rather than issues.
• Key drivers:
– Commercial - profitable agricultural sector, cleaning drinking water
– Community - reduce impact of localised flooding and poor infrastructure
– NGO - benefits of integrated & shared problem solving approach
– Wider policy climate to encourage innovation for local ‘win-win’
– Some growing interest in ‘green’ marketing/labelling
– Public - private partnership towards collective action
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@PEGASUS_eu
Findings and recommendations
• Evidence of benefits & challenges of integrated project
• Increased ‘conversation’ valued, evidence of reduced overlap
• Showing impact of project and direction of change on the ground
• Facilitation valued locally but scepticism nationally (VFM?)
• Need to overcome barriers within policy :
• Recognising the value of joining up strategic objectives at local level
• The bluntness of policy on environmental issues, need innovation
• Need place-based integrated approach – neighbourhood plans?
• More effort on determining the whole value of projects like WILD
• Maintaining coordination on integrated environmental challenges
• Incorporating private interests in shared problem solving
• Engagement, communication, knowledge, consistency & trust
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@PEGASUS_eu
Transferability
• Potential pathways towards an enhanced provision of ESBOs
• Locally focused facilitation to meet strategic objectives (ILD)
• Coordinated action to resolve integrated environmental challenges
• Behaviour change as a result of knowledge exchange and advice
• Shared partnership across government programmes
• Integrated activity and reporting across public and private partners
www.ccri.ac.uk/ild
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Other Pegasus case studies in the EU:
Linking to Emerging Themes
Chris Short and Dan Keech
23/5/2017
National workshop, BCU Birmingham
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1. Synergy across a territory or supply chain
• Case studies that show this characteristic include:
Tomato
processing,
Northern Italy
• Large geographical and participant scale, 4 regions,
2,000 producers, 50% IT output
• Inter-branch organisations promote standard practice
for water and pesticide management
• Policy integration (EU, IT and region), enterprises help
frame environmental issues as an industrial challenge.
Farmer-Beer-
Water, Brabant, NL
• Barley farmers and brewers both require quantity &
quality water for the success of their enterprises
• F-B-W attracts AE funds farmer sustainability projects,
e.g. recycle brewery water for irrigation
• Organisational structure is transparent & transferable
to non-arable farmer networks/food chains.
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@PEGASUS_eu
2. Collective action = better LM engagement
Case studies include:
Bottom-up
landscape
management,
Drenthe, NL
• Delegated local decision-making on LM, 3rd party (local
charity) provides technical support & tools
• Tradition of managing commons, costs shared by
province and parish, clearing ditches is routine action
• Non-agri action includes development of cycle/hiking
trails, archeaological and nature conservation
Urban forests,
Slovenia
• 1870ha of largely private forest in 2 cities, key ESBOs is
public health.
• Forestry Service link to schools, councils & media, EC
investment in productive, accessible forestry
• Open access creates tension between owners and
public – municipalities are key mediators here.
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research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 633814
@PEGASUS_eu
3. ESBOs emerge from strong public-private synergies
Case studies include:
Pinzgau Forestry
Management, Austria
• 50% of area forestry, ownership state/private,
avalanche/mud slide protection, tourism, wildlife.
• Complex governance balances stakeholder
interests, forest law, AE.
• Social life depends on forests, global timber prices
not only driver.
Wet meadows, Czech
Republic
• Traditional land use, drained under communism,
now national park. 1/3 bird NGO, 2/3 small famers.
• Many land use demands – water from hydro plant,
hunting, archaeology tourism.
• NGO aims to co-ordinate collective action but
uneasy consensus due to complexity. CAP-
dependency
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@PEGASUS_eu
4. Institutional settings need to foster trust
• Case studies include:
Peri-urban
production,
Montemor-e-
Novo, Portugal
• V.small (1-5ha), no connection to AE policies or global
food markets; social vibrancy, self-provisioning.
• Diversity of growers (old, young, incomers, hobbyists)
sharing commitment to maintaining associated ESBOs.
• Networks of co-operation help foster
entrepreneurialism, co-operation and new SFSCs.
Regionalwert
Freiburg, Germany
• Citizen shareholder company lends capital to farmers
to promote organic conversion/marketing.
• Producers (2!) conform to 64 sustainability indicators.
• Key objectives: farm succession + high demand for
citizen engagement sustainable land use via ethical
investment.
28. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020
research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 633814
@PEGASUS_eu
5. Public appreciation leads to ESBO demand
• Case studies include
Niche products
and Tourism,
Tuscany, Italy
• Aim to promote rural identity through multifunctional
agriculture and traditional products via tourism.
• Tourism vital due to distinct interests of small
producers and retail chains.
• Active social networks, many part-time farmers. But
problems remain – succession and scrubbing up.
Volvic water
management,
France
• Danone involves local farmers in water catchment
strategy which is relevant to farmer practice.
• Most pressure on water quality comes from sanitation
for regional urban populations.
• Danone central actor in local environmental
protection committee, contribute through local taxes.
29. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020
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@PEGASUS_eu
6. Qualitative data is valuable
• In many cases there is a lack of robust and accessible data on the
linkages between agricultural and forestry management systems
and the related environmental and social outcomes they deliver.
Meadow orchards in
southern Germany
• Meadow orchards are of enormous ecological importance
and hold a special cultural role for many Germans.
• Supplier premium schemes linked to management
support has reduced dramatic orchard losses.
• Most participants are not farmers, thus outside AE
Nature conservation
and social security,
Središče ob Dravi,
Slovenia.
• Marginal small-scale mixed agriculture and poor industrial
sector diversity; protected area (N2000/NP)
• Pristine environment is a key to inward investment.
• Local mayors, farmers, LAGs, national park etc.
collaborate: A-E payments, extension services, education,
gradual development of tourism.
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@PEGASUS_eu
Pegasus project – where we are, next steps
and opportunities for further involvement
PEGASUS UK national workshop,
23 May 2017
BCU Millennium Point, Birmingham
Janet Dwyer
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Pegasus – where we are in the project
• 3-year study – we are early in year 3
• Year 1 reviewed literature and past research
– established an action-oriented, ‘social-ecological’ systems
framework
– involving a community of stakeholders in each country
• Year 2 undertook case studies
– 34 initial, rapid case studies in 10 countries; then
– selected 1-2 per country for further in-depth analysis: WILD, in UK
• Year 3 is comparative analysis, developing lessons for policy and
practice
– Guidance and support for practitioners across the EU
– Recommendations for future policy: both CAP, and Post-Brexit UK
policies
• THIS MEETING IS PART OF THAT PROCESS…… FINISH IN
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First findings from comparative analysis of 34
cases
• The provision of economic, social and environmental benefits is more effective
when designed synergistically across a territory or supply chain
• Collective initiatives promote greater engagement by land managers with the
environmental/social goods and services delivered
• Interplay between public and private actors; policies, voluntary and market
drivers is critical, and should be strengthened
• Supportive institutional settings are key, to foster trust and action among local
stakeholders
• Increasing public appreciation and demand for environmental and social
benefits from agriculture and forestry can and will increase provision
• A paucity of robust indicators to demonstrate outcomes means mixed-
methods evaluation is essential, using qualitative and quantitative approaches
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@PEGASUS_eu
Year 3 - Opportunities to be involved: events
• Brussels workshop, 22 June – testing out our early findings with the
Commission and key national representatives
• Multi-actor sessions at 3 international conferences – IASC July, EAAE
August, IALE September
• National-level work on practical guidance and policy recommendations,
Sept-Nov
• Pegasus Workshops in NL, Portugal and Austria, November: one on building
synergies in intensive agricultural landscapes, one on Mediterranean multi-
use, one on enhancing values in marginal, HNV situations – we will draw on
UK experience, in these
• Final conference and report presentation Brussels, January 2018
- Key meetings at national level could precede or follow the Brussels
launch
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research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 633814www.pegasus.ieep.eu
@PEGASUS_eu
For more information, contact us!
pegasus@ieep.eu
www.pegasus.ieep.eu
jdwyer@glos.ac.uk; cshort@glos.ac.uk
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Thank you for listening!
For more information, contact us!
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Editor's Notes
Task 7.5: Remote SG meetings, organised, chaired and summarised in writing by IEEP, are a good way to ensure smooth and efficient planning and implementation of individual work packages by supporting WP leads (Task 7.5).
Task 7.6: internal assessment - by ensuring open communication between partners and sharing of all outputs (Wiggio, meetings, website). External assessment - EAB consulted at 1st annual PEGASUS meeting (January 2016) as well as the WP3 seminar (D3.2) which took place in Brussels in April 2016, together with other key stakeholders (e.g. DG AGRI). Will continue in Period 2 especially for final CS results and lessons learnt
Task 7.7.: organisation and attendance to about 40 workshops or meetings, include other H2020 projects, esp. PROVIDE. Will continue and intensify in Period 2.
Task 7.8: IEEP has coordinated the timely preparation of the Period 1 Technical and Financial reports and will coordinate any follow up actions, etc.
Task 7.5: Remote SG meetings, organised, chaired and summarised in writing by IEEP, are a good way to ensure smooth and efficient planning and implementation of individual work packages by supporting WP leads (Task 7.5).
Task 7.6: internal assessment - by ensuring open communication between partners and sharing of all outputs (Wiggio, meetings, website). External assessment - EAB consulted at 1st annual PEGASUS meeting (January 2016) as well as the WP3 seminar (D3.2) which took place in Brussels in April 2016, together with other key stakeholders (e.g. DG AGRI). Will continue in Period 2 especially for final CS results and lessons learnt
Task 7.7.: organisation and attendance to about 40 workshops or meetings, include other H2020 projects, esp. PROVIDE. Will continue and intensify in Period 2.
Task 7.8: IEEP has coordinated the timely preparation of the Period 1 Technical and Financial reports and will coordinate any follow up actions, etc.
We are constrained for time, so this will be a very quick snapshot of a few case studies presented in relation to our emerging findings.
The case study summaries from the previous presentations are included in the delegate packs and that the website contains similar summaries of the other 30 case studies, some of which we mention here.
The provision of economic, social and environmental benefits is more effective when the approach is designed to maximise synergies across a territory or supply chain.
So for example in Italy …
If we have time:
Case studies in this category reveal that positive/strong ESBOs result from the alignment of economic and environmental interests. E.g. high water quality is valuable to industry and nature, and the ability of nature to function as a riparian habitat is vital for continued industrial performance and efficiency. Thus, investment in improving ecosystems can be framed as an operational cost/benefit.
We see this synergy not least on territories which have a relatively dominant land use, rather than a heterogeneous patchwork of land management forms.
Collective initiatives frequently generate greater engagement by land managers with the environmental goods and services delivered, as WILD has shown this morning.
In this category case studies show that the skills, knowledge and expertise of a range of different actors can be effectively integrated, because the actions of one party complement the actions of another.
For example in the Netherlands …
[If we have time …
Of course, tensions and clashes of interests are still evident, but in the best examples, including those listed on this slide, governance is dispersed and shared, meaning that tensions have to be dealt with collectively. A positive outcome of this may be that ESBOs are multiple and span social and environmental spheres.
The role of the public sector is not just to compensate for market failure. A sensitive blend of regulation, voluntary measures and policy stimulation must consider market drivers.
In Pinzgau, an interplay between public and private actors I evident, where policies, voluntary and market drivers are all integrated in a highly complex governance structure based on a mixture of ancient forest law, modern commercial operations and governance of quality standards, and parish social interests. This ensures that forestry persists and thrives, but also that life in these isolated mountain areas is possible.
The Estonian case study on forest camping (indicate delegate packs) shows a very similar example.
The Czech wet meadows example also conforms to this category of finding, but historical and commercial contexts are more challenging than in Austria and will take time to stabilise.
Supportive institutional settings are key to foster collective action and trust between local stakeholders
Here, these very different case studies demonstrate that organisational innovations can lead to very effective land management outcomes and build social capital.
In Portugal, market gardening is marginal in terms of food productivity but effectively delivers municipal environmental policy.
In the German case study, Agri-Env instruments are seen as inadequate to drive meaningful sustainability performance in the supply chain, realise synergies between consumer and producer motivations.
Increasing public appreciation of, and demand for, environmental and social goods and services from agriculture and forestry can and will increase their provision.
These cases are very different – one is a familiar story of using added value as a way to maintain ESBOs linked to traditional (but obsolete/marginal) land uses.
The second shows a global corporation as a key player in co-ordinating water quality, partly through the taxes its local employees contribute to the costs of water quality regulation, but also by offering a structure to bring together the many private farmers who own land in the catchment and ensure that efforts to maintain mineral stability and water quality is practice-relevant to local farmers, many of whom struggle within beef commodity markets.
With all of these systems, if we try to demonstrate ESBOs and system trends using predominantly quantitative data, then we miss the social and human elements which are essential to understanding how the system operates. If we want to understand how elements in the SES are linked and how best they can be stimulated to enhance ESBO provision, we have to look at the human and social elements and these cannot aptly be recorded in any quantitative way.
The German case study especially highlight a combination of high ecological performance but also the commercially effective retention of traditional landscapes which have a high cultural value to predominantly non-farmer participants.
In Slovenia, the farming patterns characterise the area’s intrinsic ESBO values but also lock local people into sub-optimal economic frameworks. Experimental, incremental and collaborative work on the ground aims to protect but also to modernise ecological land management which encourage the rebuilding of trust and producer collaboration.