Cooperation Offer

Agriculture and Pasture in the Mountains

Offer name: 
Agriculture and Pasture in the Mountains
Expiry date: 
01/05/2018
Offering LAG: 
Suaci Montagn’Alpes
Country:
  • France
Spoken languages:
  • Englisch - Französisch

Looking to cooperate with

Type of partner: 

Agricultural and pastoral organizations / Research

Country(ies):
  • Österreich, Italien, Rumänien, Spanien, Switzerland
Type of area:
  • National / Regional borders, Mountainous, Rural
Assets of the area:
  • High Nature Value, Pasture

Project idea

Project type:
    • Cooperation within the country
    • Across regions
    • Transnational cooperation
    • Cross - border cooperation
    • Transnational cooperation
    • With other MSs (no shared border)
Project topic:
    • Innovation
    • Agriculture & Farming
    • Organic farming
    • Supply chains / Producer organisations & Cooperatives
    • Built environment
    • Public / community spaces and green areas
    • Social Inclusion/ Public services
    • Integrated services delivery approaches
Additional keywords:
  • Pasture farmers; Community development
Context: 

An overview of agro-pastoralism was carried out via the national rural network in France and we wish to widen the work to share proposals with other member states of Europe.

Project idea summary: 

The aim of the AgroPastoM project is "to collectively innovate to better support agropastoralism as a territorialized economy in the mountains".
We have three main objectives: Mobilize actors on the ground to raise their needs, Strengthen synergies between mountain agriculture and pastoralism, for a shared knowledge of pastoral issues, Improve the effectiveness of the support (in particular the RRDPs: Regional Rural Development Program) for agro-pastoralism, identify innovations in terms of public action and reproducible experiments.
We are interested in three main themes: The means of functioning of pastoralism, the public policies that support the pastoral farms and their groups, and the economy generated by the pastoral sectors.

Objectives: 

Three main objectives: Mobilize actors on the ground to raise their needs, Strenghten synergies between mountain agriculture and pastoralism, for a shared knowledge of pastoral issues, Improve the effectiveness of the support (in particular the RDPPs: Regional Rural Development Program) for agro-pastoralism, identify innovations in terms of public action and reproducible experiments
Three main themes:
- The public policies that support the pastoral farms and their groups (CAP Mountains),
- The means of functioning of pastures: pasture’s access, water’s access, predation’s management.
- The economy generated by the pastoral sectors: Valorization of pastoral products, Tourism valorization of pastures