Technical days organized on 3 farms
After a year of field inventories and surveys, the time has come to synthesize and analyze the data. The entire team is working hard to build, with farmers, agroecological action plans by combining the ecological, technical and human issues of the 60 farms we’ve working with. Concretely, these documents will contain two main parts: a summary of […]
What is next the finalization of the farm diagnosis ?
The field inventory season is coming to an end. Congratulations to the agents of CEN Occitanie, ANA-CEN Ariège, Solagro, Terre de Liens Midi-Pyrénées & Terre de Liens Languedoc- Roussillon for their achievements and a big thank you to the farmers for their hospitality. We are now entering a phase of processing, synthesis and analysis of the […]
Activities provided as part of the Water Festival in Capvern (65)
A volunteer project to restore a peat bog in the village of Capvern was proposed for the weekend of September 30. The objective? Prevent trees from growing since they would close the so-called open environment. The small team (small but not in terms of quality) started removing all the pieces of trunks and branches, previously cut by […]
Participation in the Volvestre Agricultural Days in Haute-Garonne (31)
The LIFE Biodiv’Paysanne project was present at the Volvestre Agricultural Days, organized on September 15, 16 and 17, in Haute Garonne (31), with an outstanding booth ! The on-site team made up of Franck Gaulard, Raphaël Baron and Alexis Morscheidt was able to highlight the new civil farming society which is being established little by little […]
InterLIFE meetings in Limoges
Every year, a French LIFE program invites other national project leaders to meet. An opportunity to see each other and discover the new projects taking place throughout France. These meetings are always privileged moments to discuss the successes, failures, problems and solutions that a European project can meet. Mathilde Cassé and François Salmon represented LIFE […]
Delivery of agricultural equipment for the SCEA
It’s all brand new ! All agricultural equipment to operate the SCEA (Société Civile d’Exploitation Agricole) has been delivered. This will be used for the purpose of conservation of biodiversity and will help to promote products resulting from mowing and harvesting: hay and local seeds. This is a new agricultural model that will be tested out and […]
Carrying out passages on farms participating in the project – ECODIAG method
The second mission is listed below : ECODIAG method : This method, developed by the former CEN Languedoc-Roussillon, helps to identify all the agroecological infrastructures (IAE) present on the agricultural holding. The IAEs are diversified, they can be natural hedges, lines of trees, ditches, dry stone walls and grassy strips, to give some examples. Then, a score is given in […]
Carrying out passages on farms participating in the project – Ecological Potential Index (IPE)
The IPE tool brings together the last three parts of the diagnosis. It is inspired by a protocol of the same name set up by the National Museum of Natural History in order to assess the potential for biodiversity and ecological functionality of an anthropized environment. It has three main components: standardized inventories (chronoventary) to record invertebrates present […]
Seminar on Rural Leases with Environmental Clauses (BRE) in Montpellier
Organized by the Federation Terre de Liens, the Federation des Conservatoires d’espaces naturels and the Conservatoire d’espaces naturels d’Occitanie, as part of LIFE Biodiv’Paysanne, this seminar aimed to put the subject of the BRE back on track. The discussions focused on the practice of the BREs in the two networks, the advantages, the constraints, the […]
Restoration of natural environments in the Hautes-Pyrenees
Camp de Ger The CEN Occitanie natural area management team has worked hard to reopen plots on the military land of Camp de Ger. The work of restoring environments on military plots requires enormous management work and respect of specific constraints, such as the ban of the use of mechanical pile drivers due to vibrations […]
