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Implementing HNV Farmland Sustainability: Overcoming Challenges & Informing Policy

Discover the challenges in gathering meaningful stocking density info for High Nature Value (HNV) farmland. Learn why a twin-track approach is essential for identifying and supporting HNV areas. Explore the complexities of calculating livestock units per farmed hectare and the need for a comprehensive understanding of how it operates. Address key issues for policymakers, ministries, and advisory services in meeting the unique needs of HNV farmers. Find out how local and national efforts can collaborate to ensure HNV farm sustainability.

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Implementing HNV Farmland Sustainability: Overcoming Challenges & Informing Policy

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  1. Making the HNV farmland concept work • Why not just maps? • Challenges • getting meaningful stocking density information • dealing with real farmers • A twin-track approach to the HNV issue

  2. Why not just designate a HNV area? • Maps often not detailed enough • Mapping takes time • Mapping is fixed in time or expensive to repeat

  3. Farms which have a HNV system have higher costs and deliver higher benefits: they deserve to be identified as such • In a systems approach farmers can opt in

  4. Calculating stocking densities • Livestock units

  5. Calculating stocking densities • Livestock units • per ha (da) of farmed land • ALL farmed land not just UAA

  6. Including common or communal land

  7. Including land used informally or for less than one year

  8. must consider ACTUAL not legal ‘farmland’ • must start by ignoring IACS rules • e.g. forests • e.g. small parcels

  9. Calculating stocking densities • Livestock units • per ha (da) of farmed land • ALL farmed land not just UAA • we need first to understand how it really works • remember we will pay support on per ha basis!!!

  10. Challenges • For Commission • to recognise difficulties of aspects of policy and respond • e.g. IACS rules • e.g. intervention rate for Axis 1 measures • For Ministries • fulfil spirit of CAP reform and Axis 2 of EAFRD • co-operate to overcome inst. barriers to achieving objectives • take more pro-active approach with Commission, co-operating with other MS with similar issues • For advisory services • to engage with HNV farmers • to have relevant message for HNV farmers

  11. Meeting the challenge - a twin track approach • Need locally-gathered information and tailoring of solutions • Need national framework responding to local info and interacting with EU • Need local implementation of both sensitive national measures and locally fine-tuned approaches

  12. programme has administrator, ecologist and farm advisor local analysis, tailored measures and monitoring taking approach which can be translated into RDP let down by lack of national responsiveness For example: BurrenLife project, Ireland

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