agriculture - Reverse, European Project to Preserve Biodiversity

A word from Salvatore Ceccarelli
A word from Dr. Katarzyna Biala
A. Impact of agriculture on biodiversity
B. Agrobiodiversity: History and new conservation approaches
INDEX
BIODIVERSITY IN EUROPE: CHALLENGES AND ACTIONS 8
AGRICULTURE AND BIODIVERSITY: IMPACTS AND INTERRELATIONS 12
EUROPEAN AGRICULTURAL POLICY FOR BIODIVERSITY AND AGROBIODIVERSITY 18
A. How European Common Agricultural Policy takes into account biodiversity
B. How European policies take into account agrobiodiversity
RECOMMENDATIONS AND ACTION PLANS ON AGRICULTURE AND BIODIVERSITY 24
CHALLENGE 1 26
SYNERGIES BETWEEN AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES AND BIODIVERSITY
Develop an European Farm Evaluation System (EFES) to assess the impact of the agricultural
production process and farm management on biodiversity. EFES should be developed on the basis
of indicators proposed by EEA in the framework of EU Biodiversity Strategy 2020 “Our life insurance,
our natural capital”
Link public financial support to good agricultural practices related to biodiversity conservation
Increase the protection level of and economic support to High Nature Value Farmland (HNVF)
in European countries
Raise awareness in the agricultural sector and in public society about the importance of preserving
natural and cultivated biodiversity
CHALLENGE 2 30
CONSERVATION AND PROMOTION OF AGROBIODIVERSITY
Preserve and maintain biodiversity from existing genetic resources for food and agriculture
as well as the heritage of knowledge and culture linked to them
Set up and support European networks of stakeholders working on the conservation,
enhancement and management of agrobiodiversity, in order to encourage regional and national initiatives
and create new entities, also encouraging knowledge transfer on in situ and ex situ conservation
Establish a clear European legal framework, within the review of legislation on marketing of seeds
and propagating material, which will recognize farmers’ right to exchange and market their own propagation
material (seeds, bulbs, tubers) for biodiversity conservation, dynamic management or plant breeding purposes,
without satisfying the stringent legal requirements currently in force
Promote dynamic on-farm conservation of genetic resources, applying protocols of participatory plant breeding
Implement and promote specific marketing actions to promote the cultivation of endangered local varieties and
breeding of local breeds
Promote and enlarge GMO-free regions in the European Union
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