Preparation work for main project “Cooperation with Kingdom of Norway to encourage environmentally-friendly farming and to integrate rural regions into implementation of European Common Agricultural Policy in Lithuania”

Project duration: December 2007 – July 2008

Project is partly financed by EEA and Norwegian Financial Mechanism.

The goal of this project:

Preparation work needed to plan and organize the main project;
The main project will aim for implementing requirements of EU Bird and Habitats Directives and biodiversity convention in agricultural areas;
Economic analysis was made during preparation project. It’s purpose was to evaluate the benefit and competitiveness of agri-environmental measures compared to traditional farming practice;
Agri-environmental measures currently are not popular among farmers, and this effects negatively valuable and globally or in EU protected habitats and species which depend on extensive farming;
During this project the expertise of agri-environmental measures was gained from Kingdom of Norway. A business trip for communicating with potential partners of main project was organized.

Project objectives:

Prepare economic analysis
Apply expertise gained in Kingdom of Norway and find partners for the main project.

Project activities:

Economic analysis;
Business trip to Kingdom of Norway;
Info seminar for presenting results of economic analysis, recommendations for the main project and the project visibility and dissemination.

The results will be on July 2008.