Making the HNV farmland concept work

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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

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Why not just designate a HNV area?

• Maps often not detailed enough
• Mapping takes time
• Mapping is fixed in time or expensive to repeat

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• 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

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Calculating stocking densities

• Livestock units

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Calculating stocking densities

• Livestock units

• per ha (da) of farmed land
• ALL farmed land not just UAA

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Including common or communal land
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Including land used informally or for less than
one year
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• must consider ACTUAL not legal farmland
• must start by ignoring IACS rules
• e.g. forests
• e.g. small parcels

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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!!!

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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

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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

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For example BurrenLife project, Ireland

• 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