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CAD : Sustainable Farming Contract Audrey Boisron & Agnès Ricroch /19
The Sustainable Farming Agreement in French: Contrat d’Agriculture Durable CAD
Process, actors and scientific content of the CAD implementation
image : conseil général of La Manche
Audrey Boisron and Agnès Ricroch
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Plan
I. Presentation of the Sustainable Farming Agreement (CAD in French)
II. The official process of implementation
III. Method: the choice of two measures studied
IV. First results of talks & comments
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I / Presentation of the CAD
• It is an voluntary agreement between a farmer and the préfet de département
valid for 5 years.
• “It involves more than the application of usual good farming practices.”
• It relates to a set of pre-established measures chosen by farmer.
• One measure at least has an environmental purpose.
• It is validated by the Departemental Commission for Agricultural Policy
(in French: CDOA Commission Départementale d'Orientation de l'Agriculture).
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I.1. Principle and functioning
Two kinds of subsidies:
1/ investment and capital expenditure
2/ annual aids to areas in compensation for any losses of income
(e.g. due to reduced production)
and
additional cost brought about environmentally friendly agriculture
Departmental average is
27.500 € for 5 years per agreement
but no limit per agreement
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I.2. Requirements of a measure
A series of specifications will determine :
(i) the objectives of the agreement
(ii) the field of application
(iii) the resources to be employed and results to be achieved
(iv) the financial contribution
(v) the procedures for control and supervision
(vi) the nature of any envisaged sanction.
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II/ Official process of CAD Implementation
Instructions of the circular of the Ministry of Agriculture
October 30th, 2003
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National programme
Ministry of Agriculture
Requirementsof environmental
measures
DEPARTEMENT / Dir. Agriculture
REGION / Dir. Agriculture
1 / Regional work group
manages the operational budget
identifies social and economic issues
determines actions financing and
possibly additional budget
CircularOctober 30th 2003
Official processfrom the circular of Directorate-General for Forest and Rural Matters (DGFAR)
4/ Validation of requirements final validation by the CDOA
publication of the order of the préfet de
département
3/ draw up the regional agri- environmental synthesis
2/ Development of propositions consultation of the local stakeholders
determines territories, issues, selected
actions and their requirements
final validation by the Area Commission
for Agricultural Policy
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National levelMinistry of Agriculture
National environmental measures
Articulation for the access to scientific content
DEPARTEMENT Dir. Agriculture
1- Consultation with local actors
2- Definition of the territories
3- Choice of the measures
4- Modifications and adaptations
REGION Dir. Agriculture
1- consultation with Departmental-
Directorates (DDAF)2- financial management
3- drafting of the regional synthesis
Scientific knowledge and other contextual evidences …
Scientific
knowledge
+ contextual
evidence
+ local framework
of stakeholders
ScientificKnowledge+ contextual
evidence+ local framework of
administrations(Regional Dir. Ecology)
During the second semester of 2003
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III / The choice of the measures studied
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One specific measure for each département
to examine a local specificity
Method: How to chose two measures in a département?
social and economic Environmental
Quality of waterErosion
Biodiversity
Landscape
Quantity of water
One similar measure for the 4 départements
ISSUES
by checking requirements
with two key-words
pasture and
grassland
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Two measures studied in the 3 départements
« Mizottes » - shorre
flood in the «marais poitevin»
Fallows
Hedges
Extensive management of grassland
Preservation of marshes Improving the quality of fallows
for fauna preservation
Restoration of hedges
VENDEE LOIR- ET -CHER ILLE - ET-VILAINE
1
2 2 2
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IV/ First results of the talks in Vendée and Loir-et-Cher
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Question 16c : Questionnaire 3 (Loir-et-Cher)
DépartementalDir. Agri
Fallows measure
knowledge from
Departmental huntersFederation
Extensive managements of grassland
knowledge from
Chamber of agriculture
Départemental
Commission for
Agricultural Policy
(CDOA)
Farmers UnionFDSEA
Technical association
in charge of financing(ADASEA)
Economic trainingfirst administrative
employinterested in economy
and biodiversity
REGIONAL Dir. Agri.
Other stakeholders
TE
CH
NIC
AL
com
mittee o
f CD
OA
Chamber of Agri.
The Departmental Dir. Agri can modify
regional requirements only to make them
more restrictive.
Person in charge of the CAD
implementation
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Question 16c : Questionnaire 1 (Vendée)
Departmental
Dir. Agri
Academic scientific sourcesINRA
UniversityConferences
working groups
Knowledge from associations
ADEVE (Environment defence)LPO (Birds protection)
Hunter’s federationAssociation of fishermen
Departmental
Commission for
Agricultural Policy
(CDOA)
Farmers UnionFDSEA
ADASEA
Chamber of agriculture
Luc Guyau
Scientific profileinterested in
nature protection and in scientific research
Person in charge of the CAD
implementation
REGIONAL Dir. Agri.
The Departmental Dir. Agri can
modify regional requirements only to
make them more restrictive.
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Origins of measures
Marsh preservation measure
– copying from a previous action “Marais poitevin” written by the regional Dir. Agri of Poitou-Charentes
for the 1st agri-environmental measures (1990’s)
– further technical points concerning local habitat from NGO’s
Fallows & extensive grassland measures
– The departmental Dir. Agri (DDAF) made a synthesis of two regional measures
– To approach the local farmland’s context (economic)
– fallows measure considered more technical points from the hunters association
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Question 31: sources of information for the CAD redaction?
1 2 3 4
Existent measures (Agri-environmental measures CTE, OLAE, good farming practices (BCAE in French), European directives ● ● ● ○
Unpublished papers/reports● ● ● ●
Expert opinion from outside the working-group => NGO’s => scientific
organisms● ● ● ●
Documentation or personal accounts of traditional practices in this field ● ● ● ●
By phone / By meeting people ● ● ● ●Farmer’s magazinespublications from local authorities ● ● ● ○
Published popular articles “ by memory” ● ● ● ○Published reviews/books/handbooks ● ● ● ○Electronic / web-based material ○ ○ ○ ○Published scientific papers ● ○ ○ ○
Questionnaire n°Sources used
Loir et Cher Vendée
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Comment 1
In practice, a quite large room to manœuvre :
• to change the formulation,
• to look for additional pieces of information,
• to decide which people can be contacted for the local consultation.
though it is not mandatory.
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Comment 2
• The Departmental Dir. Agri can modify regional requirements only to
make them more restrictive.
• A short delay: few months for consultation and approx. one month
for redaction.
• Previous measures are principal sources of the new ones.
• Few persons are in charge at Departmental level (Dir. Agriculture)
The role of the departmental redactor is major, because he is often
the only one to decide of sources of scientific knowledge to use.
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Comment 3
1 2 3 4
To find relevant information is easy difficult (10)?To support your decision-making is … quick time-consuming (10)?
1
8
3
7
3
3
4
5
How much published information is available?
none Enough (10)10 0 6 6
Were you able to identify knowledge gaps that required further research? ● ● ○ ●Did you search information enabling you to evaluate the outcome of the measure according to the farm size? ● ○ ○ ○Did you identify limits of available scientific information? ● ● ● ●Have you approached any person or organisation with a view to getting the research done? ○ ○ ○ ● if yes, was this person an expert ? A private consultant ? … ○ ○ ○ ●Has any research subsequently been initiated? ○ ○ ○ ●
Loir et Cher Vendée
Questionnaire n°Questions
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Thank you for your kind attention …