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Small farms tackle big problems in Bulgaria and Romania
Sofia, Bulgaria - Visitors to the first Terra Madre Balkans event, which opened in Sofia today, were greeted with specialty cheeses, artisan breads, jam and honey. The food fair for small-scale farmers and producers, devised by the organization Slow Food and supported by WWF, kicked off in the Botanical Garden...
Bulgaria - Romania
2010 - WWF
Informe
Pastoralisme méditerranéen: patrimoine culturel et paysager et développement durable
Actes de la deuxième réunion thématique d’experts sur le pastoralisme méditerranéen, 12-14 novembre 2009 –Tirana (Albanie)
Le pastoralisme est une des pratiques les plus anciennes de l’activité humaine. Il produit des paysages spécifiques, à la fois par la marque qu'il imprime au territoire et par les traditions culturelles matérielles et immatérielles qui leur sont associées. Exposé à des mutations profondes dans certaines régions, en voie de...
2010 - CIHEAM (Centre International de Hautes Etudes Agronomiques Méditerranéennes)
Conferencia/Reunión
Semi-subsistence farming in Europe: Concepts and key issues
The motivation behind the ENRD's consideration of this topic and this background paper, which raises some key issues for further debate, is two-fold. Firstly, the last two enlargements in 2004 and 2007 brought millions of small farms into the EU, most of which are either subsistence farms (SFs) or semi-subsistence...
Romania
2010 - European Rural Network
Documento de trabajo
From small farming to rural, non‐agricultural work in Romania:
an evaluation on 3 measures of the rural development programme
Romanian rural areas contain the highest level of agricultural workers in the European Union, resulting in the challenge of stimulating non-agricultural employment. This paper uses the methodology of policy evaluation to analyse the influence of 3 measures the CAP. From an objectives tree to reveal the objectives of the programme...
Romania
2010
Revista especializada
Options Méditerranéennes. Economics of drought and drought preparedness in a climate change context
During the last decades, droughts have become more frequent in the Mediterranean, West Asia and North African countries, and have had negative socio-economic impacts which are frequently linked to a high exploitation of available water resources. The Fourth Assessment Report of the International Panel on Climate Change states that extreme...
Argentina - Bulgaria - Canada - Egypt - Iran (Islamic Republic of) - Jordan - Morocco - Spain - Syrian Arab Republic - Tunisia - Türkiye
2010 - International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM)
Vídeo
Four Acres and Independence - A Self-Sufficient Farmstead
Take a tour, accompanied by curious sheep and geese, of Mark Cooper's self-sufficient small farm. Over several years, he transformed a rundown house and hillsides of berry brambles into pasture and gardens where he produces and preserves most of his family's food. Visit the Goose Grotto in a constructed pond,...
European Union
2010
Informe
Making ARD More Pro-Poor Improving Accessibility and Relevance of Results to the Poorest
The Food Security Thematic Programme (FSTP) is a programme of the European Union (EU) that aims ―to improve food security in favour of the poorest and the most vulnerable, and contribute to achieving the first Millennium Development Goal (MDG), through a set of actions which ensure overall coherence, complementarity and...
2010 - Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich,LEI – Part of Wageningen UR
Artículo
Direct selling in Italy: a marketing strategy to promote localized agro-food systems
Describes trends in direct selling by farmers in Italy by region, product and place of sale. Proposes a model of variables that affect the probability of a farmer adopting direct sales: farmer (gender, age, off-farm income); farm (farm type, work units, standard gross margin) and location (region, altimetry, less favoured...
Italy
2010
Informe
Romania and the Common Agricultural Policy
The future of small scale Romanian farming in Europe
Romania is a country of peasants, with a long deep history in peasant agriculture, which effects everything in the country, including its art, culture, and the way Romanians think. This has survived despite the best efforts of past empires and communists to destroy it. Today peasant culture remains the bedrock...
Romania
2010 - EcoRuralis
Artículo de revista especializada
Factors affecting the structure of bee assemblages in extensively and intensively grazed grasslands in Hungary
Bees are the most important pollinators in Europe. We studied bee assemblages on 7 pairs of extensively and intensively grazed sites in three lowland grassland types in Hungary. No chemicals were applied on the grasslands. The bees were collected using sweep net surveys and 1 m wide transect surveys in...
Hungary
2009 - Community Ecology
Documento de la Conferencia
Position and Perspectives of Small Farms with Respect to the Structure Development of Subsequent Vertical Link
Position and Perspectives of Small Farms with Respect to the Structure Development of Subsequent Vertical Link
Blažková, I., Sadílek, T. (2009). Proceedings of 111th Seminar, June 26-27, 2009, Canterbury, UK
The article describes the position and perspectives of small farms’ production sales with respect to the structure development of subsequent vertical...
Czechia
2009
Artículo de revista especializada
Permanent Pastures and Meadows under the CAP: BULGARIA
Permanent pastures are therein defined as utilized agricultural area used permanently for 5 or more years through cultivation (sowing) of grass fodder crops or through natural regeneration and is not included in the farm crop rotation. This area can be used for either grazing or mowing. All grass species that...
Bulgaria
2009 - Europe Forum on nature conservation and pastoralism
Artículo de revista especializada
Permanent Pastures and Meadows under the CAP: ESTONIA
Estonia falls into the Nemoral and Boreal biogeographical zones – regions naturally dominated by coniferous forests, with extensive mires. Farmers in at least certain parts in Estonia, as in other countries in these zones, traditionally made use of all the possible forage resources available to them to tide their animals...
Estonia
2009 - Europe Forum on nature conservation and pastoralism
Artículo de revista especializada
Permanent Pastures and Meadows under the CAP: FRANCE
Proposing a coherent and unified definition of permanent pastures in France is not easy in the detail neither from technical nor from administrative point of view. Starting from usual and specialised dictionaries, the definition of a “pasture” shows a certain blur between a general definition in which a pasture is...
France
2009 - Europe Forum on nature conservation and pastoralism
Artículo de revista especializada
Permanent Pastures and Meadows under the CAP: NORTHERN IRELAND
The cross-compliance booklet for Northern Ireland states “Permanent pasture is defined as permanent grassland which is over five years old which has been declared on the Area Aid application in 2003. Land which has been ploughed and reseeded within the same year may be defined as permanent pasture”.
2009 - Europe Forum on nature conservation and pastoralism
Artículo de revista especializada
Permanent Pastures and Meadows under the CAP: SCOTLAND
Permanent pastures (PP) of various types dominate the Scottish agricultural landscape. Recent census-based statistics show that permanent pastures in the widest sense account for 82% of Scotland’s farmland, making up an estimated 75% of all land claimed in IACS.
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2009 - Europe Forum on nature conservation and pastoralism
Artículo de revista especializada
Permanent Pastures and Meadows under the CAP: SWEDEN
Sweden has a tradition of managing semi-natural pastures with a relatively high amount of trees and bushes. Some of the typical habitats also have low fodder value, but it is often not correlated with tree density. These pastures are mainly alvar grazing (habitat type 6280, Nordic alvar and Pre-Cambrian calcareous...
Sweden
2009 - Europe Forum on nature conservation and pastoralism
Artículo de revista especializada
Agroecology as a science, a movement and a practice. A review
Agroecology involves various approaches to solve actual challenges of agricultural production. Though agroecology initially dealt primarily with crop production and protection aspects, in recent decades new dimensions such as environmental, social, economic, ethical and development issues are becoming relevant. Today, the term ‘agroecology’ means either a scientific discipline, agricultural practice,...
Brazil - France - Germany - United States of America
2009 - Agronomy for Sustainable Development
Documento de trabajo
Mountain Areas / Mountain farming
This paper provides a summary of the results of an analytical review of EU Member States support for mountain areas under EAFRD (2007-2013). The analysis was conducted by the ENRD Contact Point. The main purpose of the review was to provide an overview of the different RD support measures available...
2009 - European Network of Rural Development
Documento de trabajo
Peak Performance - New Insights into Mountain Farming in the European Union
The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) was the first policy to specifically address mountain regions at European level, through Directive 75/268/EEC on mountain and hill-farming in less favoured areas (LFAs). Since 1975, the CAP instruments promoting the sustainable development of mountain agriculture and the well-being of mountain rural areas have significantly...
2009 - European Commission: Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development
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