Search results: “agriculture”

Young Voices for Pollinators

…by factors such as intensive agriculture, pesticide use, habitat loss and climate change. This decline threatens biodiversity, food security and healthy ecosystems and it clearly requires action. To bring young…

Annual General Assembly 2024

Dates to save in 2022!

…aquaculture”. You can find all information, and ways to get involved, here. 15 March – Forum for the Future of Agriculture Annual Conference. The Forum for the Future of Agriculture…

Next EUROPARC Webinar: Creating bee-friendly cities – How can we bring pollinators back to our urban areas?

…the webinar By Esther Bossink – EUROPARC´s Communications Officer. Setting the Scene By Etienne Aulotte – Head of department – Nature & Agriculture development at Environment Brussels, Belgium. Implementing an…

Recommendations for a green and fair CAP reform

…for people. Protected Areas and Agriculture Agriculture and nature protection do not need to be at opposite sites of the spectrum. Many Protected Areas within Europe already work closely together…

The Council of EU on the Farm to Fork strategy

…fair food system in Europe and beyond. Says Julia Klöckner, Federal Minister for Food and Agriculture of Germany. In the conclusions, member states recognise that European food is already a…

Field Trips

…10) Sustainable Agriculture – on a Large Scale Seehof, Esterhazy The Esterházy Foundation, based in Burgenland’s capital Eisenstadt, demonstrates that organic agriculture is feasible even on a very large scale,…

Charter Award Ceremony 2018: 19 Sustainable Destinations awarded in Brussels!

…the local community. There is a clear link between tourism development and Sustainable Agriculture, as the MEP Paolo de Castro, who is also Vice-chair of the Agriculture Committee, highlighted in…

EU Policies

…conservation within climate change policy, both in terms of mitigation and adaptation. The integration of biodiversity priorities within agriculture and especially within the Common Agriculture Policy (CAP). To ensure that…

Glyphosate debate in Brussels

…full ban by the end of 2022. Preparations for this position involved a public hearing with experts organised by Members of the Agriculture and Environment Committees on 11th October. Present…

Water Governance Across Europe: the EU Water Framework Directive

…the Commissionaires responsible for Agriculture and Rural Development (Commissionaire Hogan) and Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (Commissionaire Vella) are already working together on the topic, and pushing other DGs to…

Grassland Management in Protected Areas in Post-Communist Countries

…gaps between public administration, managers of protected areas and stakeholders must be bridged within integrated multilevel governance (e.g. nature conservation and agriculture) instead of a domain-oriented approach (e.g. nature conservation…

Keynotes and Workshops

…ProPark Foundation for Protected Areas, EUROPARC member from Romania. Workshop 3 Seeds of Growth: Multi-functionality of agriculture in Protected Areas – Working with the agriculture sector in and around Protected…

European Day of Parks 2016

…enhance the link between protected areas and sustainable agriculture and promote the value of a healthy nature for Europe’s food security and in this edition of the European Day of…

ECST Award Ceremony 2018

…local business partners and ensure that tourism can bring social and economic benefits to the local community. There is a clear link between tourism development and Sustainable Agriculture, as the…

Actions & Outputs

…agriculture into agroecological agriculture were also assessed. To do so, the BMA tested the Socioecological Integrated Analysis (Marull et al. 2020) methodology, which integrated social variables into land planning. The…

Seminar Dialogue with the European Commission 2017

…to analyse the role that protected areas are playing in the implementation of the European policies, related not only to biodiversity protection and Natura 2000, but also to sustainable agriculture…

EUROPARC’s Policy & Position Papers

…European Transboundary Protected Areas are ready to collaborate with the European Institutions for a Green Future of Europe.” Read the entire contribution here Protected Areas as laboratories for Sustainable Agriculture….

Workshop presentations 2020

…Areas Of Outstanding Natural Beauty, UK) Presentation: eNatura2000 Mobile App, by Anne Magnus & Rupam Amrit (Symantra) Workshop 2: Agriculture in parks: how can we communicate to farmers, with farmers,…

Europe’s Biodiversity is under pressure

…and species. This is mostly caused by intensive agriculture, urbanization, unsustainable forestry activities and changes to freshwater habitats. Pollution of air, water and soil also impacts habitats, as well as…