Kāds bija risinājums/problēma?
The project aims to support farmers in the sustainable management of the Wicklow & Dublin Uplands, covering approx. 35,000ha of upland area. The SUAS project was developed by local stakeholders, and focuses overcoming local challenges, which hassled to good bur-in from local farmers. This is the first time commonages are being dealt with as a collective in Ireland as opposed to individual farmers and requires the formation of formal Commonage Groups to allow farmers make collective decisions and follow a single management plan for the whole commonage. The project will deliver a template for future agri-environment schemes for upland areas, with an emphasis on rewarding farmers actually delivering habitat management.
Kādi ir veiksmes faktori problēmas risināšanā?
Idea was developed from the bottom up over a long number of years which generated good bu-in from prospective participants and other stakeholders. A large element of trust and solidarity was built up during this process.
What were the main challenges during the innovation process?
Introducing new management concepts (collective farm management)
Working around existing agri & agri-environmental schemes
Changing farmer attitudes towards environmental management
Kāda loma ir konsultantam vai konsultatīvajam dienestam ar praktisko lietu?
Knowledge awareness and exchange, Advisory, consultancy and backstopping aimed at solving complex problems, to be provided during the innovation process and based on demands of actors and the co-construction of solutions, Demand articulation, to allow actors to have access to new ideas, identify their needs, define their objectives and express clear demands to other actors, Networking facilitation and brokerage, to help organize or strengthen networks, improve the relationships between key actors and to align services in order to be able to complement each other, Capacity building, aimed at increasing innovation actors’ capacities in order to play their roles in the innovation process, Enhancing/supporting access to resources by facilitating access to inputs, facilities and funding, Scaling up the innovation to increase the uptake by a broader group
For sharing experience of the practical case, lūdzu sazinieties
Declan Byrne
declan.suas@wicklowuplands.ie (00353)877839872