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  • EFNCP in the 2015 edition of Green Week
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  • Best practices for sustainable use of common grasslands in the Western Balkans and Europe (2013)
  • Farmers and policy-makers discuss the future of high-nature-value farming (2013)
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  • Extensive grazing in Europe... Hungen, D (2012)
  • Integrating biodiversity in CAP. Brussels, B (2012)
  • Semi-natural Pastures and Meadows ... Brussels, B (2012)
  • Europe's hay meadows in decline - what are we losing and what can we do? Brussels, B (2012)
  • UK seminar on HNV farming policies. London, GB (2012)
  • European pastoralisms : traditions fit for the future! Paris, France (2012)
  • Characterising and accompanying HNV farming at regional scale ... - Montpellier, France (2011)
  • High Nature Value Farming in South-Eastern Europe – SEE Regional HNV Farming Policy Workshop, Croatia (2011)
  • Seminar in European Parliament - Brussels, Belgium (2011)
  • Permanent Pastures and Meadows - Brussels, Belgium (2011)
  • High Nature Value grasslands, Sibiu, Romania (2010)
  • Seminar on HNV farming - Normandy, France (2010)
  • SEE Network Meeting, Bulgaria (2010)
  • International Workshop Vilm (2010)
  • International Conference on High Nature Value farming on Vilm (2010)
  • Mountain hay meadows - hot spots of biodiversity and traditional culture (2010)
  • HNV farming: initiating the debate in France, Paris (2009)
  • HNV Farmland in SE Europe (2008)
  • Can the Market work for Nature? Uppsala, Sweden (2007)
  • Uist Workshop (2006)
  • Pamporovo (2005)
  • LFA/HNV (2005)
  • Accession & HNV (2004)
  • Decoupling & HNV (2004)
  • Rural Development measures..., Montpellier (2003)
  • First Pillar CAP (2003)

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International Conference on High Nature Value farming on Vilm, June 2010

The meeting took place against the background of preparations for a new Common Agriculture Policy. High nature Value farmland forms the ecological infrastructure of a large proportion of European landscapes. If the development of the European agrarian model is properly to consider the EU’s biodiversity targets, the maintenance, the development and support of sustainable High Nature Value farming should play a central role.

During the conference at the International Academy of Nature Conservation, a range of issues concerning the High Nature Value farming types and their management and the policy context on which they exist were presented and discussed. Participants came from about 20 European countries, from Portugal to Estonia, from Greece to the UK.

Examples from all parts of Europe illustrated the big financial disadvantages of these farming systems when compared to intensive agriculture. The resulting ‘income gap’ is not presently being adequately filled by agricultural policy. The conference discussed various options for rectifying this.

The organizers of the conference were the Institute for Agroecology and Biodiversity (ifab) in cooperation with the European Forum for Nature Conservation and Pastoralism and (EFNCP) and the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN).

Poster and country presentations

Estonia

Identification of High nature value farming in Estonia

Finland

Identifying and monitoring HNV-farmland in Finland - Defining the most valuable regions and a national HNV-indicator

Germany

HNV-farmland in Germany
Germans farms with HNV farmland

Greece

High nature value farming in Greece

Hungary

The support of nature-friendly management methods in High Nature Value Farmland Areas in Hungary

Montenegro

High nature value farmland in Montenegro

Poland

High Nature Value Farmland in Poland

Romania

The mountainous area of Romania and the traditional management of the arnica montana l. grasslands

Slovakia

Determination of High Nature Value Farmland Areas in Slovakia

Switzerland

The credit point system a market approach to enhance biodiversity on farmland
Scoring with biodiversity: novel approaches to enhance conservation in agriculture

Rainer Oppermann, Institut für Agrarökologie und Biodiversität (oppermann@ifab-mannheim.de)