Finnish farmers with an interest in environmentally friendly farming participated in a seminar with representatives from the agri-environmental sector on a cruise on the icy Baltic Sea. TehoPlus, a national agri-environmental project, invited the ..
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Professor Jyrki Niemi from MTT gave a presentation “Finnish Agriculture and CAP2020” at the Finnish Parliament on Friday 17 January 2012 The presentation was given at a seminar on the CAP reform for an audience consisting of ..
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Here you can find English summaries of two studies that were conducted in order to compare the agri-environment payment systems of 6-10 EU countries with each other and with the Finnish system. The first report first gives an overview of agri-environ ..
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Work package 3 has compiled a list of prioritized measures that can be used by farmers to reduce nitrogen and phosphorus leakage. Most of these measures can be found in country specific regulations and some are entitled to economic subsidy. They incl ..
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The partners working for Work Package 6 have created Policy briefs on the implementability of agri-environmental targets in the partner countries. The policy briefs are based on the country reports published previously, but also on the expe ..
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The European Commission has presented a set of legal proposals designed to make the CAP a more effective policy for a more competitive and sustainable agriculture and vibrant rural areas. The legal proposals are accompanied by an impact assessmen ..
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European Court of Auditors has released a report about their study of agri-environmental support systems. The Court found that although the environmental pressures are indentified in rural development programmes, they coudn’t ..
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Kiel University is starting a new study which aims to gather farmers’ ideas of environmental planning in the region and develop the ideas to scenarios. These scenarios could then be used by the farmers themselves but also others who have power  ..
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Baltic Compass visited 3 farms in Estonian to get a inside view of the challenges farmers are dealing with and what work they are doing to protect the environment and surrounding water sources. The farms were situated in central Estonia in the ar ..
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Baltic Compass “sister” project Baltic Manure, which started autumn 2010, has launched a new award: Baltic Manure Award. It is meant to boost innovations in the area of sustainable manure handling. The criteria for the Baltic ..
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