Mitmeliigiliste põõsasribade rajamine

TäistekstPaljudes Lääne-Euroopa riikides on põllumajandusmaastikega seotud loomade, lindude ja putukate arvukus ning liigirikkus põllumajanduse intensiivistamise tagajärjel tuntavalt vähenenud. Viimasel ajal on järjest rohkem loodusliku tasakaalu tähtsust teadvustatud ja kulutatakse ulatuslikke summasid, et hävitatud ökosüsteeme taastada. Kuigi Eestis pole see probleem veel kuigi terav, tuleks siiski piirkondades, kus põllud on järjest suurenenud ja looduslikud elupaigad hävinud, pöörata rohkem tähelepanu looduslikule mitmekesisusele. Ühe võimalusena aitab seda suurendada põõsasribade rajamine. Põõsasribadel on mitu nii ökoloogiliselt, esteetiliselt kui ka põllumajanduslikult olulist funktsiooni: loodusliku mitmekesisuse tagamine ja maastikupildi mitmekesistamine, loomulikult ka mullaerosiooni vähendamine ja soodsa mikrokliima loomine põldudel. Siia lisandub paremate võimaluste loomine mitmetele teistele maamajandustegevustele nagu taluturism ja mesindus.Infomaterjali koostamist rahastati Põllumajandusministeeriumi projekti “Põllumajanduslikku informatsioonilevi koordineeriva keskuse (PIKK) käivitamine” raame

Enhancing public benefits from EU Agriculture and Forestry: Transferable Methods for Success from Local Action

The PEGASUS project aimed to identify how to promote enhanced delivery of environmental and social benefits from farming and forestry, across the EU. After three years of investigation and analysis it has distilled a number of lessons for both policy and practice. Policy recommendations are focused upon national and European policy makers and in particular, consider ways to improve the environmental and social outcomes of the new CAP, beyond 2020. These are the subject of another deliverable from the project (D5.4). This deliverable, D5.3, provides a compendium of lessons for practitioners who are interested in seeking to enhance multiple benefits from farming and forestry, within a territory or along a supply chain. Learning from 34 case study examples around Europe (for a full list, see Table 4 in D5.1), and from validation of the case study findings with multiple stakeholders in national and EU-wide seminars and workshops, this report draws together a set of common principles and supporting methods to help local actors. It summarises the wide range of lessons from the project concerning transferable methods for the successful delivery of ‘Public and Ecosystem Goods And Services from farming and forestry; Unlocking Synergies’. It aims to provide a relatively comprehensive analysis of good practice for successful initiatives. Because it is derived from a very broad range of situations and contrasting types of experience, these lessons should be transferable to a wide variety of contexts in Europe

Enhancing public benefits from EU Agriculture and Forestry: Transferable Methods for Success from Local Action

The PEGASUS project aimed to identify how to promote enhanced delivery of environmental and social benefits from farming and forestry, across the EU. After three years of investigation and analysis it has distilled a number of lessons for both policy and practice. Policy recommendations are focused upon national and European policy makers and in particular, consider ways to improve the environmental and social outcomes of the new CAP, beyond 2020. These are the subject of another deliverable from the project (D5.4). This deliverable, D5.3, provides a compendium of lessons for practitioners who are interested in seeking to enhance multiple benefits from farming and forestry, within a territory or along a supply chain. Learning from 34 case study examples around Europe (for a full list, see Table 4 in D5.1), and from validation of the case study findings with multiple stakeholders in national and EU-wide seminars and workshops, this report draws together a set of common principles and supporting methods to help local actors. It summarises the wide range of lessons from the project concerning transferable methods for the successful delivery of ‘Public and Ecosystem Goods And Services from farming and forestry; Unlocking Synergies’. It aims to provide a relatively comprehensive analysis of good practice for successful initiatives. Because it is derived from a very broad range of situations and contrasting types of experience, these lessons should be transferable to a wide variety of contexts in Europe

RDP capacities, changing governance styles and the new challenges

CAP Pillar 2 policies and Rural Development Programmes (RDPs) reflect a broad range of governance styles and policy priorities, as well as significant devolution to regions and/or provinces within Member States. The processes supporting this new style of policymaking have become increasingly differentiated. The Europe 2020 document identifies significant “new challenges” facing the EU’s rural areas, notably climate change, sustainable water management and renewable energy generation. All of these “new challenges” impinge on EU rural development policies, and imply a need for significant shifts in priorities and actions. This paper draws from recent research carried out within the RuDI project, to analyse the capacity of the current Pillar 2 approach to meet these new challenges. The research notes a high and perhaps increasing level of bureaucratisation of EU rural development policy, but at the same time thr growing “territorial” nature of RDPs and the evolution of active partnerships at both strategic and local levels. Examples of innovative action within Estonia and the United Kingdom, as well as a brief budgetary analysis, enable a discussion of RDPs’ capacity to accommodate a new challenges agenda, and both positive and negative points are identified. The paper concludes by considering how changes to the Pillar 2 framework after 2013 could enhance its capacity to plan for, and execute, more ambitious responses

Organic marketing in Estonia

A farmers study was conducted among organic farmers to investigate selling channels of organic food and determine how many farmers use organic labeling