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The Background Achievements the Objectives the Area Joining up Farming and the Community The Area Joining Up Farming and the Community Achievements The 9.000 ha project area lies at heavily on agriculture and tourism. Drop down into the Esk Valley at in the by the Local community and supported both The F& RCS has: ! improved traditional buildings, river bank the Northern edge of the North York Agriculture is dominated by upland North York Moors and a feeling of financially & technically by the F&RCS, he is ! been widely and enthusiastically fencing and regeneration of landscape Moors National Park. It includes five beef and sheep enterprises. A typical timelessness quickly descends. The the official caretaker for these three accepted in the area features villages, approximately 50 farms, and a farm has 57 hectares of inbye land patchwork of fields and the open moorlands communities. He collects the litter, he cuts ! planned and completed many ! improved grazing management total of 625 households. It was (improved grazing land), 325 sheep seems always to have been there. It is not thistle, he maintains the village features, he community projects identified by local ! piloted integrated farm appraisals expanded in 2001 from its original and 31 suckler cows. Tourists and day hard to imagine the many generations of clears the streets from snow and he does ! communities ! made improvements to village 5.000 ha to include the whole of Danby visitors are drawn by the beautiful people who have lived here. Old stone trods much more. Contracted on a self-employed ! encouraged the local community to environments and cultural features parish as well as the original parishes National Park landscapes, villages and mark the routes where farmers and travellers base, Simon Taylor is willing to make the most adopt a proactive role in rural of Commondale, Westerdale and part the nearby National Park Centre and once walked as they journeyed through the of his new job: "This is an exciting project and development As a result: of Danby. The project area depends North York Moors railway. area. Yet, this is a place where the past meets it is an ideal opportunity for me to expand my ! supported projects with individual ! new businesses have been started and the present. business". landowners and farmers old businesses diversified ! provided training and advice ! new jobs have arisen directly from the Many farms still run moorland sheep flocks Linda Grout from Castleton Community ! increased uptake and coverage of agri- scheme which are 'hefted' on the open moor (i.e. Group and Danby Group Parish Council environment measures improving ! local tourism is getting support farmers flocks establish their own territory within the admits that having a caretaker has been a ! management of the area's landscapes develop their businesses in a sustainable open, common land area). Many of the dream the area has had for many years. "Now and habitats way. original dry stone wall boundaries remain, we have Simon", she says, "it's up to us and retaining a pattern of small fields that has our communities to make it a success". hardly changed since the early nineteenth century. "The Farm & Rural Community Scheme demonstrates just how much can be achieved But returns from moorland sheep are poor through partnership working", Fraser Hugill, and in this traditional landscape with small F&RCS Project Officer comments. "It is the farms and extensive grazing, many farms are interest and commitment of local people that economically unviable. There is increasing is making the difference which everyone is pressure to increase farm size or leave starting to see in the landscape. The lessons farming, changing the face of the landscape from the scheme will play an important role in and changing the face of its villages. achieving what must be the objective of any rural policy: to have a sustainable That's where the Farm & Rural Community environment, vibrant community and a viable Scheme (F&RCS) comes in as an rural economy". They all agree that this © North York Moors National Park Authority Simon Taylor, a local man from Westerdale, works as experimental project to support farming and project turns ideas into reality, that it gets community caretaker for the Upper Esk Valley. rural communities in this area. And that's people working together and that it should be where Simon Taylor, a local man from the model for a new generation of rural The Background Westerdale, comes in. He takes care of the schemes. The Objectives communities of Castleton, Commondale, The North Yorkshire Moors Upland Westerdale and more recently Danby. Hired The Farm and Rural community This involves representatives of the project Land Management Initiative, known Scheme has three objectives, to: sponsors, local authorities, Yorkshire Rural locally as 'The Farm and Rural Community Council, Parish Councils, the Community Scheme' (F&RCS), forms 1. Test ways of involving local communities Com mun ity Gro ups and loc al lan d one of nine "Land Management in identifying their social, economic and manager. Initiatives" being run by the Countryside environmental objectives; Agency to explore how agriculture and Capital funding for community projects - other rural policies should change in 2. Develop a scheme, based on the EU including projects such as access the future. The F&RCS is an Rural Development Regulation, to improvements, funding of feasability study experimental scheme promoting achieve these objectives in an into needs of the elderly, and the integrated rural development in a integrated way (i.e. 'integrated rural enhancement of village features. remote and marginal rural area in the development'); North of England. It is designed to Land Management Agreements (LMAs) - explore ways in which regional, 3. Create stronger links between farmers voluntary whole farm five-year agri- national and European policies can be and communities. environment agreements, drawn up in strengthened to deliver social, partnership with the farmer. They include economic and environmental Key elements to achieve these objectives req uir eme nts suc h as the pos iti ve objectives in upland England. It is are: management of habitats and repair of being developed and implemented as traditional landscape features such as field a partnership between the local Community involvement - Meetings were boundaries and traditional sandstone communities of Castleton, held with local communities and farmers buildings. Commondale, Danby and Westerdale before the project began to help shape the in the Upper Esk Valley, the North York scheme and identify ideas and set Farm appraisals - an Upland Farm Moors National Park Authority and the pri ori tie s. Com mun ity Gro ups wer e Appraisal Scheme has been developed Countryside Agency. Additional established by the local communities in the w h i c h d r a w s t o g e t h e r s o c i a l , support and advice is provided by scheme area. These continue the environmental and economic aspects of a Yorkshire Forward, the European © North York Moors National Park Authority consultation process, generate their own farm business. Visitors at the Environmental Fair at Sutton Bank National ideas for local projects which are then Union, DEFRA, Yorkshire Rural Park Center discover easy ways to live a more sustainable Community Council, Scarborough lifestyle. funded with Community Grants. Research - An economic report and an Borough Council, North Yorkshire assessment of countryside character and County Council and various other local Strategic direction - a strategic plan was environmental capital provide background partners. © John Knight developed at the start of the project and the information and analysis to help scheme The Golden Pilcher is one of the many species that benefit from a reversal of long-term decline in scheme is guided by a Steering Group. development and monitoring. essential moorland management. hat ment: erence opment Initiatives t and Environ Make a Diff North York Moors - United Kingdom Rural Devel Joining up Farming and the Community © North York Moors National Park Authority Heather Moorland 1986, WWF - World Wide Fund For Nature (Formerly World Wildlife Fund) WWF Registered Trademark owner. Ò ervuren 36 Box 12 .uk WWF European Policy Office Elizabeth Guttenstein Agriculture & Rural Development Avenue de T 1040 Brussels Belgium Tel : +32 2 740 0924 Fax : +32 2 743 8819 www.panda.org/epo email: [email protected] 60.000 coming from EU. This supports a project officer and other , Merlin and the Red Grouse, Curlew and Lapwing. Juniper trees € el: 0113 246 9222 Stuart Pasley Countryside Agency Victoria Wharf No.4 The Embankment Sovereign Street Leeds LS1 4BA T [email protected] www.countryside.gov 1.277.000 (£810,099) with 40 percent coming from EU. Other programmes € 112.500 each year to support land management agreements, farm appraisals, The whole area is within the Less Favoured Area and all beef and sheep farmers 851.000 with € . € 4.492.000 (35 percent from Europe) and the river Esk regeneration Programme with a € .uk ark Authority © North York Moors National Park Authority Farming Dales Author: Angelina Hermanns - WWF European Policy Office Editor: Elizabeth Guttenstein - WWF European Policy Office WWF's mission is to stop the degradation of the planet's natural environment and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature, by : - conserving the world's biological diversity - ensuring that the use of renewable natural resources is sustainable - promoting the reduction of pollution and wasteful consumption 458.700 and 39 percent
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