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The EEA and functional agro-biodiversity Elena Cebrian Calvo European Environment Agency (EEA)

The EEA and functional agro-biodiversity Elena Cebrian Calvo European Environment Agency (EEA). 2nd European Seminar (ELN-FAB) 24 - 25 September 2009. Frick, Switzerland Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL). The EEA and functional agro-biodiversity. The EEA

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The EEA and functional agro-biodiversity Elena Cebrian Calvo European Environment Agency (EEA)

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  1. The EEA and functional agro-biodiversityElena Cebrian CalvoEuropean Environment Agency (EEA) 2nd European Seminar (ELN-FAB) 24 - 25 September 2009. Frick, Switzerland Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL)

  2. The EEA and functional agro-biodiversity • The EEA • Agri-environment activities at the EEA • About functional agro-biodiversity: concepts, data, objectives

  3. The EEA is an EU agency established in 1994 to: • collect data and information on the environment in Europe • report on main environmental trends and underlying (socio-economic) driving forces • by these means lay the basis for environmental decisions by policy makers 32 member countries ca. 180 staff www.eea.europa.eu

  4. EEA work in the agri-environment field • State of environment reporting • Agri-environment indicators - Support to the SEBI process • Agriculture contribution to thematic chapters in the “State of the Environment Report” 2010 • Analysis of pressures and policy support • Analysis of CAP instruments & distribution of payments with an environmental perspective (to be published soon…) • Rural areas and territorial cohesion • Agriculture water use Water resources across Europe — confronting water scarcity and drought. EEA Report No 2/2009 • Climate change Impacts of Europe's changing climate - 2008 indicator-based assessment. EEA Report No 4/2008

  5. Concepts Sustainable agricultureAgrobiodiversityMultifunctional agriculture Agro-ecologyAgroecosystemsEcological services Biological control Biodiversity conservationFunctional biodiversity Environmentally-friendly agricultureIntegrated productionFunctional agro-biodiversity Ecosystem functions and services

  6. !!! ???

  7. Data

  8. link to other datasets e.g. changes in land use and in land cover • link to other information e.g.on farming practices • joint work with institutions and data providers, including farmers (!!)

  9. Conservation status of habitats dependent (left) or not dependent (right) on agriculture Source: Article 17 Technical Report (2001-2006) - ETC/BD 2008

  10. 27% Source: OECD, 2009

  11. Objectives Adjust existing policy tools? New policy tools? Change the policy?

  12. “There is always an easy solution to every human problem – neat, plausible and wrong” H.L. Mencken

  13. Thank you for your attention • elena.cebriancalvo@eea.europa.eu

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