Building a transnational capacity-building network for common land graziers – taking the first steps

Offer name:

Expiry date:

07/09/2017

Offering LAG:

Torfaen Local Action Group - Create

Country:

United Kingdom

Spoken languages:

Bulgarian - Spanish - English - French

Looking to cooperate with

Type of partner:

All EU, EFTA, Accession/Candidate States. Organisations of common graziers or which work closely in support of common graziers at grassroots levels. Public authorities who support common grazing and better governance by graziers.

Country(ies):

European Union, Candidate countries

Type of area:

National / Regional borders, Inland, Island, Coastal, Mountainous, Peri-Urban, Rural, Isolated / Remote

Assets of the area:

High Nature Value, Pasture, Forest, Protected areas

Project idea

Project type:

- Cooperation within the country
- Transnational cooperation
- Cross - border cooperation
- Transnational cooperation
- With other MSs (no shared border)
- Transnational cooperation
- Non EU countries

Project topic:

- Knowledge transfer / education / training activities
- Agriculture & Farming
- Natural environment & Resources / Landscape
- Governance
- Community development

Additional keywords:

Common land, communal land

Context:

Common/communal land is extremely important for socio-economically marginal communities and for the delivery of public goods. Extremely diverse, they all share the same marginalisation in policy, with their complicated issues being left until last in policy development and the same result of policies which don't really fit and so don't deliver in terms of social, economic or environmental sustainability. The need to exchange best practice and develop solutions together is really urgent.
In 2015, the first ever meeting of Europe’s common graziers was held in Brussels, with 40 delegates from 6 countries. This first meeting was about starting to get to know each other and our diverse circumstances. That meeting resolved to convene an extended network, funding permitting, with a view to exploring in more details our shared issues and pulling together an action plan.

Project idea summary:

Creation of a formal capacity-building, experience-sharing, mutually-supportive and collaboration-catalysing network for graziers of common and communal land and their organisations from across Europe. A transnational workshop in SE Wales, UK, will act as a focus for the initial development work and formulate an action plan for the next 2 years, including further transnational cooperation projects.

Objectives:

1) To hold a transnational stakeholder event for common graziers which will:
- initiate the drawing up an action plan for European common pastures agreed and written, with individuals/ organisations to take it forward identified;
- mandate the drawing up of a proposal for transnational cooperation project drawn up to take the initiative forward to the next stage.
2) Production, agreeing and dissemination of the action plan;
3) Formulation, agreeing and submission of the cooperation project.
The primary target group is organisations of common graziers, or individual graziers where such groups do not exist. The secondary target group is organisations and agencies who work closely with such organisations of graziers.