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Expertise on agriculture and biodiversity

The main French institute on agricultural research - INRA (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique) – has been commissioned by the government to deliver a state of the art scientific expertise on agriculture and biodiversity.

A one and a half year process, involving more than 20 researchers from various disciplines, having examined more than 2,000 references has lead to a comprehensive report (112 pages) on the subject (downloadable at www.inra.fr, in French only).

From the Forum perspective, the report notably strikes the importance of semi-natural vegetation for the conservation of biodiversity, with several sound science references supporting the conclusions.

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From the Forum ...

• Scottish Government consultation on the Less favoured Area Support Scheme – Joint response of SCF and EFNCP, PDF-Document (29 Dec 2008)
• HNV farming – Explaining the concept and interpreting EU and national policy commitments – PDF-Document (13 Oct 2008)
• CAP Health Check Consultation - a response from EFNCP (15.01.2008) – PDF-Document (23 Sep 2008)
• Consultation on the review of the Less Favoured Area (LFA) Scheme 2008 – a response from EFNCP (29 Jul 2008)

News

• La Cañada No. 22: Winter 2008 – Editorial – Pessimism or optimism for the CAP Health Check? EFNCP’s vision for the LFA measure ... (31 Dec 2009)
• Irish landscape conference – looking around, looking ahead (1 Jan 2009)
• Agri-environment presentations available to view – An international conference on Using evaluation to enhance the rural development value of agri-environmental measures (1 Jan 2009)
• Major French conference on biodiversity and agriculture – was held on 4th and 5th November 2008 in Montpellier, France (1 Jan 2009)
• Nature Protection projects in Romania – Call for proposals (1 Jan 2009)
• Forum for the Future of Agriculture – The second Forum for the Future of Agriculture (FFA) one-day conference will take place in Brussels on the 18th March 2009 (1 Jan 2009)
• Impacts of biofuel production – ECNC published an overview paper on biofuel production and biodiversity (1 Jan 2009)
• Farming for conservation: supporting the future – Generations of farming activity have shaped, enriched and sustained many of the most important high nature value landscapes in Europe (1 Jan 2009)
• Fundatia ADEPT website – Fundatia ADEPT is a Member of the Forum and is a charity which promotes agricultural development and environmental protection (1 Jan 2009)
• LIFE brochure on grassland ecosystems – Grassland ecosystems hold an important part of Europe’s biodiversity (1 Jan 2009)
• High Nature Value areas in Sweden – The Swedish Agriculture Agency has recently published the result of a project mapping HNV areas in Sweden (1 Jan 2009)
• Climatic Risk Atlas of European Butterflies – Climate change will cause Europe to lose much of its biodiversity (1 Jan 2009)
• European grassland butterfly indicator – A new report has recently been produced (1 Jan 2009)
• Biodiversity loss by 2010 – Enormous effort required to halting biodiversity loss (1 Jan 2009)
• CAP2020 – the future development of the CAP (18 Dec 2008)
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