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A Greener Agriculture for a Bluer Baltic Sea A Greener Agriculture for a Bluer Baltic Sea Report from conference in Bella Center, Copenhagen, Denmark, 24-25. October 2012 Conference report: A Greener Agriculture for a Bluer Baltic Sea, 2012 The conference A Greener Agriculture for a Bluer Baltic Sea 2012 was arranged by the informal project cluster of three Interreg Baltic Sea programme projects Baltic Compass, Baltic Deal and Baltic Manure together with WWF-Sweden. This year’s conference attracted 250 professionals from twelve countries with various backgrounds. Farmers, scientists, governments, the academic community, advisors and entrepreneurs were all represented and made vital contributions to the conference, enabling a wide-ranging program with the mutual aim to find sustainable solutions to reduce the nutrient leakage from agriculture to the Baltic Sea. This report is written/ edited by Agro Business Park with inputs from the parallel session moderators based on the presentations. The contributors are thanked for their input and the present report is solely the responsibility of the editors. All presentations can be found at the websites of the projects: www.balticmanure.eu www.balticcompass.org www.balticdeal.eu To be cited as: Tybirk, K. (ed.) 2012. A Greener Agriculture for a Bluer Baltic Sea, 2012. Conference report. www.balticmanure.eu, www.balticcompass.org; www.balticdeal.eu Conference report: A Greener Agriculture for a Bluer Baltic Sea, 2012 Programme day 1 - Plenary Session ................................................................ 4 Parallel Seminars, Oct. 24th ............................................................................ 9 Parallel session 1. Actions and perspectives from farm level .................... 9 Parallel session 2. How to treat manure in a sustainable way for nutrients and energy .............................................................................................. 10 Parallel session 3. Adapting Baltic Sea Region agriculture for 2020-2050 13 Poster/Mingling Session ............................................................................... 14 Programme day 2 – Plenary session .............................................................. 15 Parallel Seminars, Oct. 25th .................................................................... 15 Parallel session 1. Group based advisory – social learning and measures in catchments ............................................................................................. 15 Parallel session 2. Promoting sustainable agriculture - economic and environmental wins for the Baltic Sea Region ......................................... 16 Parallel session 3. Exploring issues for regional cooperation ................... 18 Parallel session 4. Qualitative and quantitative assessment of livestock manure: Methods for efficient management and enforcement .............. 19 Final plenary session ..................................................................................... 22 Conference survey ........................................................................................ 23 Expectations met .................................................................................... 23 The presentations ................................................................................... 24 Annex 1 Programme ..................................................................................... 27 Annex 2 Participants list ................................................................................ 30 2 Conference report: A Greener Agriculture for a Bluer Baltic Sea, 2012 The conference was sponsored by Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management, Yara and Pellon. Thank you to our conference sponsors! 3 Conference report: A Greener Agriculture for a Bluer Baltic Sea, 2012 Wednesday, October 24, 2012 The plenary session was moderated by Charlotta Samuelson of the Swedish Foundation Baltic Sea 2020 together with Ottilia Thoreson, WWF-Sweden. Opening Address by Jens Ejnar Christensen, Chairman of the Board, Knowledge Center for Agriculture, Denmark and Board member of Baltic Deal. Jens Ejnar Christensen welcomes this broad audience to Denmark – farmers, researchers, policy makers, business, advisors etc and was looking forward to become updated on knowledge. Many challenges in the Baltic Sea region need constructive cooperation to define realistic visions and find good solutions. A Danish saying goes: Don’t cross the river to get water, which in this context means that the knowledge found in one country should be transferred to the others instead of re-inventing the wheel. This conference can definitely contribute to this! A warm thanks to the sponsors and organisers to make this event possible. The challenges for a Greener Agriculture and Danish interpretation of the measures of Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union – CAP in the Baltic Sea Region Future by Niels Lindberg Madsen, Danish Food and Agriculture Council, Copenhagen A major challenge for the balance between agriculture and environment is the balance between competitiveness and sustainability. Exactly this balance is why we need a strong Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the EU. FAO states that by 2050 the global demand for animal protein will be two thirds higher than it is today – fuelled by rising populations and income growth in developing countries. We need a regulated market to ensure the competitiveness of the environmentally sound products. In addition, we need fair budget ceilings 2014-2020 – as agriculture has already delivered. Concerning the Greening of the CAP, the Danish Food and Agriculture Council agrees to link support to delivering environmental and other public goods, but is concerned about the administrative burdens on farmers, and for not rewarding farmers who have already moved ahead on ”greening.” Greening should reward frontrunners. 4 Conference report: A Greener Agriculture for a Bluer Baltic Sea, 2012 Finally, we need a new distribution of Rural Development Programme budget – to better reflect challenges of balancing competitiveness and sustainability. New innovative agri-environmental policy instruments by Jussi Lankoski, Economics of the Baltic Sea Protection, University of Helsinki Eutrophication is a major problem of the Baltic Sea. Despite EU Agri Environmental Policies no actual reductions in measured nutrient runoff can be observed – N runoff has even increased. Problems of current EU Agri-Environmental policy are a poor environmental and benefit-cost targeting as well as heterogeneous compliance costs that are not reflected in payment level. As a result we have poor budgetary cost-effectiveness, i.e. environmental benefits/€ of payment. The proposal is a new innovative policy instrument as a solution: conservation auction. The basic idea of conservation auctions is that the conservation agency sets the budget and the objectives. The farmers select the conservation measures and the compliance cost is estimated via a bid. The bids are granted according to performance/€ to achieve the best environmental benefit. The system has been tested in Finland, where farmers reduce phosphorus runoff from field parcels to watercourses by application of gypsum through such conservation auction. The bids proved to correlate well with the environmental benefit index. Farmer’s compliance is increased by this motivation factor. More information is needed to improve the link between the financial instruments and the Environmental benefit. European Innovation Partnership (EIP) on Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability by Christiane Kirketerp de Viron, DG Agriculture and Rural Development Innovation is truly a buzzword… but innovation is indispensable to prepare EU agriculture for the future. The ‘Budget for Europe 2020’ foresees 4.5 billion Euros for research and innovation in the field of food security, bio-economy and sustainable agriculture. The 2020 flagship initiative EU as an Innovation Union has entitled the European Innovation Partnerships (EIP) as a new tool for fostering innovation closing the innovation gap between farmers and researchers. EIP should pursue innovations across all the supply chain, interlinking all innovation relative measures and activities to achieve synergies. Agricultural advisory services are key elements for this – between agriculture and research. The means to do this should be rural development funds and research and innovation framework (Horizon 2020). The EIP network functions will include • Collection of relevant information (data bases, project lists, etc.) • Ensuring an effective flow of information and providing advice on opportunities provided by EU policies (helpdesk function) • Exchange on innovation topics, best practice, and accompanying research (focus groups, seminars, workshops, field days) • Systematic feedback to scientific community on practice needs 5 Conference report: A Greener Agriculture for a Bluer Baltic Sea, 2012 • Exchange with Technology Platforms (ETPs), Research Area Networks (ERA-NETs), Joint Programming Initiatives, etc. • Interface function of the Standing Committee for Agricultural Research (SCAR) Steps for a more sustainable agriculture – experiences from Baltic COMPASS by Staffan Lund, Project Coordinator, Swedish Agricultural University, Uppsala The objective of Baltic compass has been ambitious: Reduce eutrophication (nutrient over- enrichment) of the Baltic Sea through fostering win-win solutions for agriculture and environmental sectors, based on problem definitions which are relevant for stakeholders
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