Protecting Romania’s high-biodiversity farmed landscapes …...Fundatia ADEPT Transilvania...
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Fundatia ADEPT TransilvaniaProtecting Romania’s high-biodiversity farmed landscapes
and the small-scale farming communities that maintain them
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S-E Transylvania, Târnava Mare area, a Natura 2000 site
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the largest area in lowland Europe with extensive tracts of ancient landscape, intact villages and associated traditional agriculture
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One of the most important natural, cultural and historical landscapes of Europe
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ETHICS:
FAIR TRADE,
ANIMAL WELFARE
LOCAL ECONOMY:
AGRICULTURAL
EMPLOYMENT AND
CONNECTED LOCAL
EMPLOYMENT
SOCIAL
COHESION,
FOOD
SECURITY
SERVICES:
TOURISM
ETC.
ENVIRONMENT:
BIODIVERSITY, WATER
MANAGEMENT,SOIL
QUALITY, CARBON
STORAGE ETC.
CULTURAL
HERITAGE
FAMILY
SUCCESSION
HIGH QUALITY
FOOD PRODUCTS
Why are HNV Landscapes so important?For the public benefits and added economical value
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Areas of mosaic landscape with semi-natural grasslands, trees and scrub offering biodiversity connectivity and
refuges
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Important wildflower-rich haymeadows
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Supporting a remarkable range of habitats and species
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Lack of social and economic incentives - abandonment Reduction of traditional land management practices
Intensification of grassland management and changes in land use
What are the threats to the HNV farmlands?
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Threats
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Evolution of cattle and sheep numbers in
Transylvania 1995-2013
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A romantic view of these ideal landscapes is not enough.
We need a science-based and market-based approach
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ADEPT’s responseUsing an integrated approach linking economic and social benefits with biodiversity conservation, and raising local
capacity for good management in the future(for example encouraging associations).
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ADEPT’s MissionTo protect the High Nature Value Farmed Landscapes of
Transylvania, working with and supporting the small-
scale farming communities that created them and
maintain them today.
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ADEPT’s Aim
Give these landscapes and communities an economic future
and relevance in the 21st century without sacrificing their
sustainability and productivity.
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ADEPT’s integrated programme
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This helps us understand how it works, and also gives us
data to defend support policies at government level
1. Understanding the landscape: every physical
block (over 5,000) inventoried
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Innovative mapping systems will assist both conservation management and agricultural
management
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Biodiversity Conservation Târnava Mare area included in the EU Natura 2000 network
since 2008
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2. Developing policy incentivesin cooperation with Ministries
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Policy influencePromoting farmer participation in agri-environment schemes, and advising on the design of these schemes
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New packages 2014-20
+ Aquila pomerina arable
➢ 195.000 ha of extensive orchards now
eligible throughout HNV area: €9m/year➢ Additional 26 communes in
Cluj and Bucovina: €2m/year
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Results-based pilot 2015-19
Surveys for identification of list with 30 species that:
• are moderately common
• are easy to identify
• cover a range of habitat types
• correlate with HNV habitat score
• distinguish between meadows of different habitat quality
29
Trollius europaeus
Primula spec.
Fragaria spec.
Orchidaceae spec.
Dianthus spec.
Leucanthemum vulgaris
Scorzonera purpuraea
Filipendula vulgaris
Very simple system for Romania,
based on the local situation – large
number of small-scale applicants.
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3 payment levels calculated using income foregone, based on assumptions of the necessary management to maintain species numbers:
•5 species: €213 / ha / year
•8 species: €229 / ha / year
•10 species: €259 / ha / year
Incentive to improve
Farmers are allowed to move UP in species number, but
not DOWN.
The three levels (5, 8 and 10 species) provide buffer
against surveyor error or natural variation year to year,
and reward increasing species richness.
Payment according to no. indicator species in
each of 3 sections along a 100m transect.
<100 m
Uptake
Farmers very interested in the flexibility provided.
76 farmers, 207 parcels = 173 ha
Payment Agency was involved and they consider it practical for future national implementation
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Netherlands is already
practicing local a-e schemes
across the whole country
In the near future we hope to develop local
management schemes
Local and schemes would:
• Incentivise cooperation between
farmers, promoting landscape-scale
approach
• Improved ecological effectiveness,
tailored to local conditions
• better tailored measures, less
paperwork for the farmer if the
schemes are a joint agreement
• Very suitable for landscapes such as
Transylvania where there may be
100 farmers in a 1,000 ha valley
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How NOT to conserve farmland biodiversity!
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3. Making innovative equipment
accessible to farmers
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4. Encouraging association/cooperation
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Milk: the Viscri Association story
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5. Regulations and markets
Helping micro-producers
meet regulations
Developing and marketing
value-added products
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Innovative marketingCreating a brand for the area - a quality mark for local
products & services
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National HNV brand?
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HNV ProductsDiversified, nutritious, healthy and tasty food
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6. DiversificationLinking visitor experience with local incomes: agrotourism,
trekking, shepherding, “Meet the bees”, “Meet the bears”, Horseshoe maker
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Transylvania Bike Trails - an innovative approach in
adding value to the area
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100 Km mountain bike trails networks, linking 8 Saxon villages with Sighisoara
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Revival of old crafts Saschiz Pottery Centre
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Communication Campaigns and Publications
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Balanced approach
• Policy: environment and economy balanced
• High ability of locals to capitalise on opportunities
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Thank you!Mulțumesc!