Conception for lands of high natural value

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Conception for lands of high natural value
international agreements
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Biological Diversity Convention

• 1992 Rio de Janeiro
• Three main objectives
• 1. Conservation of biodiversity
• 2. Sustained use of biodiversity components
• 3. Sharing benefits arising from adaptation of
  genetic resources for commercial and other
  purposes through a fair and equitable manner

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Pan-European Biological and Landscape Diversity
Strategy

• framework for development of consistent approach
  to the Convention on Biological Diversity
• emphasis on the importance of landscape diversity
  for planning land use

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Kiev Resolution on Biological Diversity May
2003

• Until 2006, identification of all areas of high
  natural value in agricultural ecosystems in the
  Pan-European region according to selected general
  criteria will be completed
• Until 2008, a significant portion of these areas
  will be managed in manners protecting
  biodiversity through use of adequate mechanisms,
  e.g. instruments for rural area development,
  agro-ecological programmes and biological
  agriculture which, among other things, will
  support their economic and ecologic viability

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European Environment Agency

• In 2001, EEA conducted an overall study to
  determine agricultural land indicators of HNV
  being aware of their increasing importance for
  the EU agricultural policy
• Project focused on natural value rather than
  agricultural aspects

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European Environment Agency

• Agricultural land of high natural value includes
  those regions in Europe where agriculture is the
  main (commonly dominating) method of land use and
  where agriculture supports or is united with high
  diversity of species and habitats or with
  presence of species subject to preservation in
  European scale or both.

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Project for planning agricultural landsof HNV on
European level

• Preliminary plan of agricultural lands of high
  natural value for ??-15 made on the basis of two
  main sources network of EU agriculture
  accounting data and land cover database (CORINE
  land cover 1990)
• Update targeted at assessment of the aims laid
  down during the Kiev Conference, as well as the
  implementation of the policy for development of
  rural areas 2007 2013 (monitoring indicators
  for RAD programmes)

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Community strategic directionsfor rural area
development

• EU ecological priorities
• Biodiversity and conservation of agricultural and
  forest systems of high natural value
• waters
• climatic change
• that axis II should contribute the three
  priority issues on EU level biodiversity and
  conservation of agricultural and forest systems
  of high natural value....

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Why support biodiversity management?

• Systems of HNV are not always profitable for the
  farmers since the price paid by the customer does
  not include environmental added value, which a
  farmer creates by decreasing the
  intensity/investments compared to conventional
  agriculture. EAFRD monies provide opportunity for
  payments to farmers for these ecological
  products.

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Thank you for your attention!Yulia
GrigorovaWWF Danube-Carpatian Programmee-mail
ygrigorova_at_wwfdcp.bg