About the European Island Farm Landscapes Network – a response to the Convention on Biological Diversity in Europe and the Global Island Partnership

The network seeks to assess how new agri-environment programmes will affect island farming and associated wildlife rich farmed landscapes and what can be done to promote the viability of these wildlife rich landscapes into the future.

The European Island Farm Landscapes network is a partnership sharing experience between island farming communities and environmental organisations across Europe. It aims to explore how farmers, crofters and rural landowners use new European Union Agri-environment schemes to maintain their small and micro-businesses, supporting landscape and wildlife through sustainable land use, as well as to explore alternative viable or sustainable forms of farm diversification favouring landscapes. The network is responding to the Convention on Biological Diversity notably the Global Island Partnership.

NEW INFORMATION

Recently held - Fourth Workshop European Island Farm Landscapes. Tuesday 25-Friday 28 September 2007. Isle of Inish Bofin, near Galway, Ireland. Organiser: Mary Lavelle of Comhdhail Oileain na hEireann. Documents for the meeting can be downloaded from the Workshop home page. See below:

Fourth Workshop of the project – InishBofin, Ireland

· 25-28 September 2007. Inishbofin, ireland

Contact: Comhdhail Oileain na hEireann. Tel/Fax: +353 2872929. Email

Workshop Final Report and papers. See workshop home page.

Workshop Report

Field excursion: Inishbofin http://www.inishbofin.com

Field Excursion: LIFE Project Burren http://www.burrenlife.com/

Working Group questions and lists

Questions and who is in which working group? Download

WG 1 - Applying recommendations of the workshops? Download

WG 2 - What projects to work on together in future?

· Project Portfolio list Download.

· Isle of Arran – whole island sustainability project. Download.

· Mediterranean working group. Download

· Comments by Birdlife Cyprus Download

WG 3 – Where do we get funding for the future – preparing EU tender Download.

· Notes on LIFE+ funding September 2007 Download.

· Outline project concept Download.

WG 4 – What is the final deliverable, and message for the EU? Download

Outline European Island Farm Landscape project portfolio – 19 April 2007

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Third Workshop European Island Farm Landscapes

· 28-29 March, 2007. Menorca, Spain

· Successfully hosted by Consell Insular de Menorca and GOB Menorca.

Contact Leader+ - Gonçal Segui.. Email.

Gob Menorca - Sergi Mari Pons. Email.

Workshop Report and Recommendations (version 19 April 2007). DOWNLOAD

· See workshop page for further details and downloadable presentations.

March 2007 – presentation and publication of The Parliament Regional Review Issue 4 includes European Island Farm Landscapes Article. To be presented for the 50^th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome. DOWNLOAD

February 2007 – European Parliament report – Islands and Natural Constraints. DOWNLOAD

December 2006 - We welcomed Scottish islands of Islay and Arran joining of the project following approval by Leader+ WHELK.

Second Workshop of the project

· Held 20-21 November 2006. Texel, The Netherlands

Contact: De Lieuw. Tel/Fax: +31 (0)222 314072. Email

Workshop Report. DOWNLOAD

Registration for invitees only DOWNLOAD

Travel details DOWNLOAD

New report “Farm tourism - a way forwards for the Shetland Islands” prepared by Dan Eatherley, MSc in Sustainable Development, Exeter Unity in cooperation with Sue White of the Shetland Crofting, Farming & Wildlife Advisory Group (SCFWAG). DOWNLOAD HERE

Isle of Wight presentation “European Island Farm Landscapes and the Isle of Wight” at IOW AONB Open Forum 19 September 2006. DOWNLOAD HERE

PRESS

European Island Farm Landscapes in the press

· European Island Farm Landscapes in The Parliament Review – Europe’s Regions and Cities, March 2007. For 50th Anniversary of the Treaty of Rome – the EU at 50

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· Las islas con peso agrario aúnan esfuerzos para tener voz en la UE. Menorca info.

· Ultima Hora Menorca - Menorca y ocho islas europeas se unen por las prácticas agrarias sostenibles September 2006

AONB Open Day Workshop September 2006

· European Island Farm Landscapes presentation

First workshop of the project

3-4 April 2006 Ventnor Botanic Gardens, Isle of Wight

DOWNLOADS

· Second Workshop summary report

· Workshop Page

· First Workshop summary report

· Workshop participants list

· Field Excursion

Upcoming events

10 October 2007

· Environment for Europe Ministerial Conference, Belgrade, Serbia.

News

· For latest activities on the islands CLICK HERE

Fourth Workshop European Island Farm Landscapes

25-28 September 2007. Isle of Inish Bofin, near Galway, Ireland. Contact Mary Lavelle of Comhdhail Oileain na hEireann, for details.

· EIFL 4^th workshop Inishbofin Report and papers. See workshop home page.

EIFL and EU at 50. 50^th Anniversary of the Treaty of Rome. The Parliament Regional Review

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FORUM WEBLINK AND EIFL

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· September 2007 Toulouse ENSAT 6 month work placement has just been completed by Ms Pion who worked from April for the EIFL project based in IOW, Shetland and Texel. Her IOW work was a collaboration between the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust and Island2000.

Third Workshop European Island Farm Landscapes

28-29 March, 2007. Menorca, Spain

Hosted by Consell Insular de Menorca and GOB Menorca. Contact Gonçal Segui. Tel/Fax: Tel: +34 (971) 351 5660/Fax: +34 971 368216. Workshop report

· 30 May 2007 meeting of Mediterranean partners in Malta. Contact Mark Causon for details.

· 12-16 June 2007 – proposed Farmers4Nature Interreg workshop, Shetlands. Contact Sue White SFWAG for details.

· 1-8 July 2007 - Convention on Biological Diversity SBSTTA meeting/COP-8 Bureau meeting. UNESCO, Paris

· 8-12 July 2007 in Wageningen, The Netherlands. International Association for Landscape Ecology World Congress. Contact: Rob Jongman

· March 2007 – HWWT visit to Arran and Ayrshire. Bilteral meeting with FWAG partner and Farmers4Nature delegation from Telemark.

· March 2007 - Bilateral visit of IWEP and HWWT to Irish partners and Aran islands.

· January 2007 – Malta Rural Development Department (RDD) meeting to inform interested potential stakeholders about Leader. EIFL Malta partner to attend.

· 18-21 February 2007 – Meeting Comhdhail Oileain na hEireann, IWEP and Hampshire & Isle of Wildlife Trust.

· FOR REPORT OF TEXEL WORKSHOP CLICK HERE

· December 2006 – new islands, Islay and Arran (Scotland) join the EIFL following Leader+ WHELK approval

· 20-21 November 2006. Second Workshop European Island Farm Landscapes. Texel, The Netherlands. Hosted by Ineke Hin & Marcel Drenth, De Lieuw. Tel/Fax: +31 (0)222 314072. Email. Agenda. DOWNLOAD

· 9-10 November 2006 –Farmers4Nature Interreg workshop, BTO, Thetford, UK

· 21-22 November 2006 meeting at Islay European Small Islands Network (ESIN).

· 28-29 September 2006, Workshop on implementation of the European Landscape Convention (Girona, Spain)

· 29 September 2006 meeting of SISU, Finland

· 18 September 2006 bilateral meeting – Isle of Wight Leader+ and Wlght Wildlife with GOB Menorca, Menorca Biosphere Reserve Administration, and Leader+ Illa de Menorca. Maó, Menorca.

· 13 September 2006 meeting Isle of Wight with Landscape Europe, Wageningen, Holland

· 7 September 2006 bilateral meeting Texel and Isle of Wight coordinator, Texel to prepare 2^nd Project Workshop and finalise dates and content

· 8 August 2006 bilateral meeting Malta and Isle of Wight, Valetta. Bilateral visit of Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust and IOW Leader+/IWEP to Malta partner, Genista Foundation

· See archived news 2005-2006

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