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Conférence/Réunion
Italian National Rural Network contribution to the “short supply chain”
In recent years Italy has seen a vital, if spontaneous and rather piecemeal, growth in short food supply chains at the local level. Such a phenomenon is of considerable interest since it responds to a number of needs and opportunities, both of farmers and consumers. Short supply food chains in...
Italy
2011 - National rural network
Article de revue spécialisée
What is a small farm?
In recent years small farms have received increased attention in the political debate, recognizing the role they play in rural areas and the need to improve their economic and social conditions in times of structural change of the agricultural sector towards fewer and larger farms. However, the wide variation in...
2011
Bulletin d'information
European Habitats Forum (EHF) Detailed Response to the EU Biodiversity Strategy
Taking action on biodiversity is of paramount importance given that species and habitats continue to be lost at an alarming rate both within Europe and around the world. Nature’s ‘free’ services are the foundation of our societies and economies, providing us with clean air, water, food, fibre, fuel and healthy...
2011
Rapport
Characteristics of small-scale coastal fisheries in Europe
The study analyses the structure and economic performance of small-scale coastal fisheries (SSF) in Europe. Eighteen main clusters within SSF are identified and their distribution by NUTS-2 region is presented. The contribution of SSF in terms of income and employment to the economies of the NUTS-2 regions is also assessed....
European Union
2011 - Directorate-General for Internal Policies of the Union (European Parliament)
Article de blog
Food and climate change: the forgotten link
A global shift towards an agriculture that builds up organic matter in the soil would also put us on a path to removing some of the other major sources of greenhouse gas emissions from the food system.
Spain
2011 - GRAIN
Article de revue spécialisée
Systëmes d'èlevage des petits ruminants sur les parcours des règions arides tunisiennes
Une étude typologique de l’élevage pastoral des petits ruminants dans les régions arides tunisiennes a permis d’illustrer les impacts des mutations socio économiques sur les structures et le fonctionnement technique du secteur. Les données issues de 180 enquêtes auprès des troupeaux de 4 gouvernorats du sud ont été analysées par...
Tunisia
2011 - Centre International de Hautes Études Agronomiques Méditerranéennes (CIHEAM)
Rapport
Characteristics of small-scale coastal fisheries in Europe
The study analyses the structure and economic performance of small-scale coastal fisheries (SSF) in Europe. Eighteen main clusters within SSF are identified and their distribution by NUTS-2 region is presented. The contribution of SSF in terms of income and employment to the economies of the NUTS-2 regions is also assessed....
European Union
2011 - European Union - European Commission
Article
Mountainous farming in Europe
Mountain farming in Europe is based mainly on ruminant livestock and utilization of locally produced forage resources by grazing and hay. Farmland extends from mountains in the eastern Mediterranean to the Atlantic coast, with major areas at the highest elevations in central Europe, thus encompassing wide variation in geology, soil,...
2011 - Grassland Farming and Land Management Systems in Mountainous Regions
Projet
''Forest License'' project delivers skills for small-scale forest owners
Luxembourg, like other countries, contains forest owners who have inherited their forest land but they themselves are not involved in professional forestry. These types of forest owners may tend to leave their forest alone and not manage them.
An INTERREG project helped to identify such ''passive'' forest owners and Leader funds...
Luxembourg
2011 - European Union
Article
Agricultural changes in the European Alpine Bow and their impact on other policies
The socio-economic frame-conditions of land-use change in the Alps are diverse, as is the adaptation of agriculture. Generally, the Alpine space is a land of meadows and pastures. This is a result of developments on the European agricultural market and a better economic context for the production of milk and...
2011 - Grassland Farming and Land Management Systems in Mountainous Regions
Article
Climate change and impact on European grasslands
This paper analyses the likely impact of climate change on European grasslands in relation to their present agro-climatic conditions. Such an analysis is an essential part of any assessment of climate change impacts on agriculture given that grasslands are of high importance for agriculture in temperate and humid regions of...
2011 - Grassland Farming and Land Management Systems in Mountainous Regions
Rapport
High Nature Value Farming in South-Eastern Europe
Policy Opportunities and Challenges in the EU Accession
The concept of HNV farmland is a novelty for the South Eastern Europe (SEE) countries. But even in the absence of detailed studies it is clear that the generally very extensive character of agriculture in these countries suggests that there are large areas of HNV farmland in a variety of...
Croatia - Montenegro - Serbia - North Macedonia - Türkiye
2011 - European Forum on Nature Conservation and Pastoralism
Vidéos
Romania reforms agriculture for EU entry
After communism Romania launched capitalist reforms in its huge agricultural sector
Romania
2011
Article
The European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development Examples of Food projects
Food is fundamental to life and the majority of the food that we eat comes from Europe’s rural areas. Food priorities for the European Union (EU) include safeguarding food supplies and providing European citizens with quality, value and a diversity of food which is produced sustainably3 . The Common Agricultural...
Bulgaria - Cyprus - Czechia - France - Italy - Malta - Spain - Sweden
2011
Vidéos
Setting up a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)
At Culberry Nursery in Angmering, West Sussex (4 miles west of Worthing), Martin Jarvis is taking the first steps to set up a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Project.A meeting in May 2011 established the level of interest, as local Angmering residents and members of Transition Town Worthing discussed ideas of...
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2011 - URGENCI CSA
Revue spécialisée
Options Méditerranéennes. Régulation foncière et protection des terres agricoles en Méditerranée
Les terres agricoles subissent une pression croissante à la suite de l’étalement urbain et résidentiel, du développement du tourisme et de la modification des formes d’usages des espaces ruraux, et ce quel que soit le niveau de développement des pays. C’est dans la perspective d’apporter des connaissances utiles aux décideurs...
Algeria - France - Greece - Italy - Morocco - Tunisia
2011 - Centre International de Hautes Études Agronomiques Méditerranéennes (CIHEAM)
Article de revue spécialisée
Policies and practices of pastoralism in Europe
The shepherding of livestock on open pastures is an essential marker of pastoralist management. In modern Europe this practice still persists in various truncated forms. In many parts of the world, government policies undervalue or actively discourage pastoralism, especially mobile pastoralism. Europe is an exception to this trend. Backed by...
2011
Revue spécialisée
Options Méditerranéennes. Economic, social and environmental sustainability in sheep and goat production systems
The current evolution of the sheep and goat sectors in the Mediterranean region, with a constant decrease in economic profitability, a high incertitude on the generational transfer of farms, and the environmental concerns for both the consequences of abandonment of the activity in some areas and the increase of the...
Algeria - Egypt - France - Morocco - Spain - Tunisia
2011 - International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM)
Article de revue
Agricultural Product Quality: a success factor for EU food and farming
Quality and organic products are a key part of the Common Agricultural Policy and an important Objective of Rural Development Policy. In fact enhancing food quality throughout Europe partly depends on the EU’s rural development policy. support and opportunities for effective implementation depends on actions in each Member State. However,...
2011
Rapport
Economic prospect for semi-subsistence farm households in EU new Member States
This report presents a study of the economic situation of semi-subsistence farm households (SFHs) in new Member States and of their prospects for development under the stimulus of various EU agricultural policy measures. The project was carried out by the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (JRC-IPTS), and focuses on agricultural...
European Union
2011 - European Commission
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