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Linking sustainable practices throughout Europe
United-Kingdom
Success stories:
- Butterfly Conservation Research on Continous Cover Forestry (CCF) and Biodiversity, UK
- Hermon Community Center
- The National Forest Company, one of the biggest environmental initiatives creating and managing woodlands in the UK
- Two publicly-owned woods rescued from neglect in Beaminster, Dorset, England, UK
- [EXP] Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT), Europe’s leading Eco-Centre
- [EXP] Coed Cymru, helping Welsh landowners to manage native woodlands sustainably, for environmental and economic gain
- [EXP] Conserving and promoting the natural and cultural heritage of Foula, Shetland’s most remote island
- [EXP] Devon Hedge Group, an example of partnership of local bodies to protect and promote Devon’s world class hedges (UK)
- [EXP] National Forest Company (NFC) – an exemplar of sustainability in all its aspects
- [EXP] Oxfordshire Woodfuel Programmes “Logs for Labour”, an exchange between volunteers and woodland managers in UK
- [EXP] Peak District Farm Holidays, a group of farming families providing quality holiday accommodation
- [EXP] Peatland Restoration at Shapwick Heath on the Somerset Levels in South West England
- [EXP] PLANED, working with communities to deliver local integrated development in Pembrokeshire
- [EXP] Small woodland keepers in the UK
- [EXP] Tablehurst and Plaw Hatch Community Farms, an example of biodynamic farm businesses owned by 600 local shareholders.(East Sussex, UK)
- [EXP] The Mourne Homesteads Project - Mourne Heritage Trust brings back to life traditional buildings in Northern Ireland
Documents:
- ► How to deliver rural services? Collection of examples of social innovation
- Conference Report: Community Connected Farms for Tomorrow: New Ways of Land Access for Communities and Farmers
- Fact Sheet “Forests and Woodlands in England” - 2016
- Local authorities supporting access to land for farmers: stories from Europe
- Reinventing Europe through Local Initiative
- Report - preparatory meeting of Forum Synergies Sustainable Forestry group - 13 January 2012, St. Michel l’Observatoire, France
- Report on Civic Dialogue Gathering 2015
- Transitioning Towards Agroecology: Using the CAP to build new food systems
- Your land, My land, Our land : grassroots strategies to preserve farmland and access to land for peasant farming and agroecology
Organization(s):
- ACRE (Action with Communities in Rural England)
- Butterfly Conservation
- CPRE (Campaign for the Protection of Rural England)
- CAT (Centre for Alternative Technology)
- Coed Cymru (Welsh Woodlands)
- Devon Hedge Group
- Earth Trust
- EuCAN (European Conservation Action Network)
- ECOVAST (European Council for the Village and Small Town)
- Foula Heritage
- Mourne Heritage Trust
- National Association for AONBs (Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty)
- NFC (National Forest Company)
- Natural England
- Organic Research Center
- Peak District Farm Holidays
- PLANED (Pembrokeshire Local Action Network for Enterprise and Development)
- Rural Development Programme for England Network
- Rural Network North Ireland
- Scotland National Rural Network
- Scottish Rural Action
- Small Woods Association
- Soil Association
- SUSTAIN, the alliance for better food and farming
- Tablehurst and Plaw Hatch Community Farms
- The Woodland Trust
- Trust for Oxfordshire’s Environment
- Wales Rural Network