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Committees, Working Parties and Round Tables
EAA
and EAC Working Group on farming, forestry and rural land management (PDF)
The
Common Agricultural Policy and Europe's living landscapes:
cultural
heritage as a force for rural development.
The Common Agricultural
Policy and Europe's living landscapes: cultural heritage as a force for
rural development.
The
farmed landscapes of Europe have developed through many centuries of interaction
between people and nature and they continue to evolve. As well as supporting
important natural assets and resources, these living landscapes also provide
a vital repository of the European cultural inheritance in the form of
historic features, archaeology, traditional buildings, distinctive settlements,
and local customs, traditions and produce. Together they provide the diversity,
beauty and sense of place that defines the European countryside.
This
common European landscape inheritance is important for its own sake but
also has the potential to benefit rural communities; to generate jobs and
wealth; to attract inward investment; to foster a sense of European, national
and local identity; and to promote social cohesion.
Our
farmed cultural landscapes should therefore be recognised as an important
public good, a powerful force to promote successful rural development and
an invaluable asset supporting regeneration, growth and economic recovery.
A
joint statement on the future direction of the Common Agricultural Policy
has been issued (July 2010) by
a coalition of leading non-governmental organisations concerned with the
European landscape, cultural heritage, rural tourism and rural communities.
by Europae Archaeologiae Consilium, Europa Nostra, the European Association
of Archaeologists, the European Council for the Village and Small Town,
the European Federation of Farm and Village Tourism, the International
Association Rurality-Environment-Development (R.E.D.) and the Rural Investment
Support for Europe (RISE) Foundation.
Together
we believe it be imperative that a continuing rural development policy
and budget are available to ensure a sustainable balance between food production
and the effective stewardship of the cultural and natural landscape and
that CAP policy should continue to evolve to ensure the delivery of adequate
environmental, social and cultural benefits for public investment.
Presentations
from the 2009 EAA session
Notes
of the Round Table Meeting of the EAA/EAC Working Group on Farming, Forestry
and Rural Land Management. EAA Annual Conference, Oslo 2011 (PDF)
Progress
Report - March 2011 (PDF)
Progress
Report - July 2010 (PDF)
Progress
Report - March 2010 (PDF)
Recent Research
and Links
Heritage
Protection Reform Implementation - COSMIC Implementation Pilot Project,
East
Midlands Region, Stage 1 - Final Report
Trials
to Identify Soil Cultivation. Practices to Minimise the Impact on Archaeological
Sites (Defra project No: BD1705). Effects of Arable Cultivation on
Archaeology (EH Project number 3874. Known collectively as: "Trials"
Appendix
1: Sub-soil pressures resulting from tillage implements and vehicle
loads
Appendix
2: Buried Artefact Breakage Laboratory Trials
Appendix
3: Studying the effects of different cultivation systems on flat
archaeological sites
Appendix
4: Studying the effects of different cultivation systems on archaeological
earthworks
Appendix
5: Conclusions and Recommendations
Sid
5 - Summary
of Results
At
Arbury Banks Northamptonshire, ploughing has destroyed medieval ridge
and
furrow earthworks overlying an Iron Age fortification and is eroding
the
underlying site.
Romano-British
mosaic at Stanwick in Northamptonshire, England under
excavation
in 1989. Arable cultivation has seriously damaged the
mosaic.
 
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