An Open Forum Discussion at the Uplands Community Partnership Conference in late May 2014 looked at tradtional extensive farming practices and commonage. The uplands of Ireland have been identified among the high nature value farmland areas of Europe and EU member states have pledged to maintain and support high nature value farming in these areas.
The Eurpopean Forum for Nature Conservation and Pastoralism and IT Sligo organised this workshop to discuss how measures included in Ireland's draft RDP can support HNV farming in the Irish Uplands.
Key questions addressed during the discussion were:
- How proposed agri-environment measures (GLAS, GLAS+ and Locally Targetted Output-Related Agri-environment schemes) will work in a HNV upland setting?
- How do we ensure that commonage farmers (majority of farmers in Upland areas) are not disadvantaged?
- Can practical delivery mechanism be developed for commonages?
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