tailieunhanh - Báo cáo hóa học: " The Common Agricultural Policy vis-à-vis European pastoralists: principles and practices"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về hóa học được đăng trên tạp chí hóa hoc quốc tế đề tài : The Common Agricultural Policy vis-à-vis European pastoralists: principles and practices | Nori and Gemini Pastoralism Research Policy and Practice 2011 1 27 http content 1 1 27 o Pastoralism a SpringerOpen Journal SHORT REPORT Open Access The Common Agricultural Policy vis-à-vis European pastoralists principles and practices Silvia Nori and Michele Gemini Correspondence mnori69@ via casine 10 - Firenze Italy Springer Abstract This article reviews how the European Union Common Agricultural Policy CAP currently addresses pastoralists needs in Europe and could further contribute to sustainable management of pastoral areas. The CAP provides a set of financial subsidies to farmers in the form of market income and rural development support. We first present a brief overview of the CAP its basic principles the available instruments recent developments and finally discuss the future challenges and potentials for pastoralists in the European Union. Keywords Common Agricultural Policy European Union pastoralism Introducing pastoralism and the Common Agricultural Policy Pastoralism is being increasingly appreciated worldwide as an environmentally friendly practice which in the European Union EU is valued as particularly important for the protection and the safeguarding of mountainous areas defined as Europe s ecological backbone European Environment Agency 2010 . Appropriate pastoral resource management is recognised as favourable for the environment due to a number of reasons which include enhanced conservation of plant and animal biodiversity UN 2010 sustainable land and water management by supporting the active management of vegetation cover reducing soil erosion flooding and fire hazards by facilitating water flow and retention and important carbon sink capacities since properly managed grasslands store approximately 34 of the global stock of CO2 . If the grassland becomes degraded or is converted to cropland it loses some of its capacity to store this carbon FAO 2006 WB 2009 . Thus pastoral resource management holds .