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PASTORAL Workshops

The first two workshops (Spain, July 2001 and Romania, October 2001) placed emphasis on visiting farms and taking delegates, from 14 different countries (both Member States and Candidate Member States), in to the field to discuss issues in situ.

These excursions and field discussions then provided the context for the subsequent indoor sessions which identified a number of key issues and broad gaps in understanding at a pan-European level.

These first two workshops successfully set in motion the process of consolidating a better understanding of pastoral systems.

The project narrowed its focus during the third workshop to explain why pastoralism is important for Europe's nature (Scotland, July 2002) and the fourth workshop (France, December, 2002) examined how well agricultural and agri-environment policies target high nature value pastoralists.

 

PASTORAL Workshop 1: Spain

The first PASTORAL workshop was held in July 2001, in the village of Soto del Real, central Spain, and brought together 35 experts from 12 different countries including Poland, Romania and Slovakia.


PASTORAL Workshop 2: Romania

Over thirty people from ten European countries travelled to the village of Moieciu de Sus, 200 km north west of Bucharest in the Carpathian mountains (a short distance, as the bat flies, from Dracula’s castle) for the project's second workshop.


PASTORAL Workshop 3: Scotland

At both of PASTORAL’s previous workshops it became apparent that there is a need to explain in simple terms some of the complex aspects of the ecological interactions between grazing livestock (and associated pastoral management practices) and nature.


PASTORAL Workshop 4: France

PASTORAL’s fourth and final workshop was held in south-east France, 7th-9th December, 2002.


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