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European Islands and Farm Landscapes –
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ACTIVITIES – LATEST ACTIVITIES
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WORKSHOP DOCUMENTS
26-27 September 2007
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Fourth Workshop of European
Island Farm Landscapes in Inish
Bofin (Ireland).
To be hosted by Comhdhail Oileain na
hEireann. Contact Mary Lavelle for latest update. Tel/Fax: + 353
099-75096.. Email.
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home page for details.
Summer 2007
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Atlantic/North
Sea/Baltic meeting under European
Island Farm Landscapes. Gothenburg Council/Styrso have offered to host the
meeting. Contact Nils Eberil for latest
update. Tel/Fax: +46 (0)31 3665614. Email.
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13-15 June 2007
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North
Sea meeting under European
Island Farm Landscapes back-to-back with Farmers4Nature Interreg project.
To be hosted by SFWAG. Contact Sue White
for latest update. Tel/Fax: +44 01595
692633. Email.
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home page for details.
30 May 2007
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Mediterranean
meeting under European Island Farm Landscapes. To be hosted by Genista Foundation
of Malta. Contact Mark Causon
for latest update. Tel/Fax: +356 2158 0848. Email.
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home page for details.
28-29 March 2007
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Third Workshop of European
Island Farm Landscapes in Menorca
(Spain). To be hosted by Consell Insular de Menorca
and GOB Menorca. Contact Goncal Segui/ Sergi Mari Pons for latest update. Tel/Fax: Tel: +34
(971) 351 500. Email.
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home page for details.
20-21 November 2006
Second Workshop of European Island
Farm Landscapes in Texel (Netherlands).
Contact Ineke and Marcel for latest update. Ineke Hin & Marcel Denth, De Lieuw.
Tel/Fax: +31 (0)222 314072. Email
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home page for details.
April 2006
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First Workshop of European
Island Farm Landscapes. Ventnor April 2006 -Workshop and
individual islands Report
Project Documents 2005-2007
DRAFT PROJECT PORTFOLIO LIST
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ACTIVITIES BY ISLAND/COUNTRY
ISLE OF ARAN (Scotland)
Leader+ application approved December 2006.
Update March 2007: Bilateral meeting held with Taste of Arran and Hampshire and Isle of
Wight Wildlife Trust March 2007 on Arran in cooperation with
delegation from Telemark (Norway) as part of the
Farmers4Nature INTERREG Project.
Update March 2007: March 2007
Report: Author
Tommy Loudon
Update
September 2007. Presentation.
Author Tommy Loudon
Update July 2006 – The Agriculturist of the project
partner, Larnaca Development Agency visits farms in the area of the
District of Larnaca in prescheduled tours once a week. At his visits he
finds out about any weaknesses and changes that they must be done for
improving the quality and in extent the income. This activity was started
since the end of 2004, in order for the Agriculturist to see the owners of
the farms periodically. Till today he has visited about 30 farms of cows,
40 pigs units, 50 of sheeps and goats and 15 of poultry.
Update March 2007: March 2007
Report: Author
Kyriacos Kareklas
Update 2006: July
Report: :
Author Kyriacos Kareklas
Discussions have also
started to explore links between the Cyprus Keo Brewery in Limassol and
those on Islay, Texel, Isle
of Wight, Shetlands, and Malta.
Links to Cyprus Keo brewery
Update July 2006 - Stefan Andtbacka has been working with Frida Barrett, SISU Project Co-ordinator until 19th May, when he took over from Frida when she went on maternety
leave. Common elements between the EIFL and SISU projects include tourism
and transport.
7-9th April Sweden had a visit from some
SISU participants from Finland and Scotland. The next meeting of
SISU will be on 29 September 2006 in Finland.
For latest
information on the MEAT- “Managing Environment and
Agriculture Together” project focusing on abbatoirs see the following
link:
http://webnews.textalk.com/en/article.php?id=170139
Stefan
Andtbacka, -email: stefan.andtbacka@styrso.goteborg.se
-Tel: +46 (SDF Styrsö, Bratten, 430 84 Styrsö, SWEDEN
Update March 2007:
 
Frida Barrett currently on maternity leave and replaced by Stefan Andtbacka
Update March 2007:
Update July 2006 – Mary Lavelle reports that main focus has been on the Organic Strategy
Group and horticulture. A project coordinator is in the process of being
appointed to work on EIFL. A mission
from the Isle of Wight is being planned for early September. A
bilateral meeting is proposed on Inish Bofin for autumn 2006 with Leader+
Isle of Wight Carol Flux and Graham Drucker, Wight Wildlife.
Update July 2006 -
Expression of Interest to join the network from the RSPB office Isle of
Islay (Argyll and Bute) - an area that is famous for
its whisky and geese. Its prime asset is the RSPB's Loch Gruinart nature
reserve (1,667 hectare). The RSPB runs a farm at Loch Gruinart with 250
suckler cows and 200 sheep. 25 ha of land is used to grow animal feed. The
livestock are vital for the conservation of the site as they maintain the
grassland areas. Top quality calves are also raised on the farm and sold at
sales on the island. The nature reserve and farm is closely integrated with
the local community and is a good way of demonstrating conservation and
agriculture in practice to farmers and advisors both locally and
nationally.
Update October 2006: Supplementary
Cooperation Agreement prepared October 2006. Jack Fleming reports
“Islay is in the process of planning a range of case studies of
farming and nature conservation practices within the Less Favoured Area
designation of Scotland. Forming the
basis of these studies will be the island of Islay although comparative
studies will be made on the islands of Mull, possibly Coll, the Outer Isles
and Orkney. For further comparison
there is likely to be a mainland site selected, probably within the Speyside
area. The case studies will be
founded upon questionnaires (copy of draft attached) that will identify key
habitats and species and the practices, both agricultural and conservation
driven, which may support them”.
Update March 2007: Report.
Author: Jack Fleming
Draft
questionnaire See link
Website info: http://www.rspb.org.uk/countryside/managingreserves/studies/lochgruinart/index.asp
Discussions have also
started to explore links between the Islay Ales Brewery and those on Texel,
Isle of Wight, Shetlands, Cyprus and Malta.
Link to Islay Ales Brewery
Update July 2006 – Graham Drucker reports “We have concentrated on visiting and talking to farmers
and researching about Island Farm Diversification, Island Abbatoirs
and Island Labelling. Chief amongst these include exploring
agri-tourism interests, notably farm accomodation and wildlife enhancement.
This has involved developing a questionaire, involving 3 new volunteers
working in the farming community, and meeting almost 50 farms covering 10%
of the island. The results of our current work will be brought to the next
workshop”.
Since 2005, farm visit questionanire devised. Review and
survey of planning applications for farms (2004-2006). Meetings with UNEP-WCMC
and RSPB re assessment and monitoring, and link to the Convention on
Biological Diversity. Up to 50 farms visited as part of the local Isle of
Wight activities to discuss the Agri-environment schemes, farming and
landscapes, and farm diversification. Covers 10% of island area. Six
volunteers have taken part in the project. Tina Williamson (website), Mark
Russell (website), Jonathan Brown (farm visits), Steve Chapman (farm
visits/monitoring-assessment), Gareth Shelley (Farm access) and Louise Hart
(farm diversification and marketing).
Wight
Wildlife Volunteer Gareth Shelley surveying Countryside Stewardship
conservation farm walks on the Isle of Wight (August/October 2006)
3 monthly reports
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Jan-March 2007
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Oct-Dec 2006
Presentation about the Isle
of Wight and the European Island Farm Landscapes at the Isle of Wight AONB
Open Day September 2006. Click
here to download presentation. For further information about the Isle of
Wight AONB see website.
Discussions have also
started to explore links between the Ventnor Isle of Wight Brewery and
those on Islay, Texel, Shetlands, Cyprus and Malta.
Update March 2007:
Update July 2006
– Mark Causon wrote “
- Collected info on all
organic farms.
- Preparing info document on
farm diversification.
- Preparing info for lectures
to be given to farmers.
- In collaboration with
another foundation have prepared an example of how farmers can
diversify in their work”
Project partner Mark Causon, Genista Foundation visiting
the State Farm of the Ministry for Rural Affairs and the Environment in Malta
August
2006 report Project
Overview island farming (Draft)
Discussions are about to
start to explore links between the Simonds Farsons Fisk Malta Brewery and
those on Islay, Isle of Wight, Texel, Shetlands, and Cyprus.
Link to the Simonds
Farsons Fisk Malta Brewery
Update July 2006 – Mercè
Avellan wrote “Spanish Authorisation for participation in the project
received” A mission from the Isle of Wight is being planned for early September
to meet Leader+ Menorca, Menorca Biosphere Reserve Administration and GOB
Menorca. The farm advisor for GOB Menorca is Conxi Guanola who has been
concentrating on stewardship contracts with farms. A bilateral meeting
between Isle of Wight and Menorca is scheduled for September 2006, hosted
by Sergi Mari Pons, the project partner, GOB Menorca, the Menorca Biosphere
Reserve Administration and Menorca Leader+.
Update March 2007:
Update
July 2006 – author Sergi Mari Pons
Sergi Mari Pons and Conxi Juanola at the GoB Menorca Centre for
Nature
Update July 2006 – Summary from Sue White “I have 3 students with me at the
moment. Dan Eatherly is an MSc student from Exeter University studying
sustainable rural development, he has interviewed 20+ folk about
the potential for agri-tourism in Shetland. Nathalie Pion and Julie Fargier
are both studying agriculture at universities in France and are working
together collecting invertebrate samples and botanical data from different
types of farm/ croft land. I'm interested in looking at whether groups of invertebrates
such as spiders might be indicators of habitat quality and what impact
cattle and cropping have on the assemblages”.
Article
attached from Dan Eatherly, MSc student studying sustainable rural
development at Exeter University.. Update Article. Draft Dissertation proposal.
photo of
Julie, Nathalie and Edward Milner (a spider expert who's working with us)
setting pitfall traps at Leons, Mid Walls.
Discussions have also
started to explore links between the Valhalla Brewery and those on Islay,
Isle of Wight, Texel, Cyprus and Malta.
Update October 2006 - 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
Link to the Valhalla Shetlands
Brewery
Summer 2007 workshop – details to be added
TEXEL
(The Netherlands)
Update July 2006 – De Lieuw has concentrated on its routine activities on farm advise,
grants dispersion, restoration of ‘tuinwall’ and bird nest
monitoring. Marcel and Ineke are starting to prepare the Second European Island
Farm Landscape Workshop. It is being planned for late 20-21 November 2006
in Texel.
Update March 2007:
Discussions have also
started to explore links between the Texel Beer Brewery Texelse Bierbrouwerij and those on Islay, Isle of
Wight, Shetlands, Cyprus and Malta.
Ineke Hin surveying in Isle of Wight
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