SAC Research

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.

The workshop kicked off with a fascinating field trip to visit some of the extensive livestock systems found in the local area. This provided an excellent basis from which to address the threefold focus of the workshop:

• to examine the links between extensive livestock farming systems and the maintenance of biodiversity in Europe
• to identify the key aspects, or ‘weakest links’, of these systems that threaten their survival
• to explore the implications of Accession for these systems

Workshop Presentations 

• Introduction to the villages of the Bran area (workshop location) and the evolution of Romanian agriculture by Condrea Draganescu
• SAPARD: what it is, what does it offer and how it will be used by Harriet Bennett
• Ecological and socio-economic implications of extensive livestock grazing in Europe by R.G.H Bunce, B.S.Elbersen and W.K.R.E van Wingerden
• Evolution of Milk Sheep Production in Castelo Branco Region: Biodiversity Vs. Productivity by J. Varzea Rodrigues, C. Rebelo de Andrade, L. Pinto de Andrade, A. M. Rodrigues and J. P. Fragosa de Almeida
• Extensive sheep farming in south east France: problems and opportunities by Gerard Guerin
• Model for the development of nature conservation strategies taking into account the changed ecological and economic conditions by Uwe Riecken et al*
• ELPEN report of the 2nd PASTORAL workshop by Berien Elbersen

*This is reproduced with the permission of the authors and is taken from  Riecken, U., Finck, P. & Schröder, E. (2002): Significance of pasture landscapes for nature conservation and extensive agriculture. In: Härdtle, W., Finck, P., Redecker. B., Riecken, U. & Schröder, E. (eds) (2002): Pasture Landscapes and Nature Conservation. - Springer, Heidelberg - Berlin - New York.

To obtain a copy of any of these papers, please contact Davy McCracken

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