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Abstract(s)
Hay meadows, agri-ecosystems maintained by the secular actions of man, are disappearing all
over Europe, and with them, large areas with high biodiversity. In recent years, this process
has also affected significant surfaces of mesophile hay meadows located in South-West
European (SW EU) mountain areas due to changes in land management and socio-
demographic decline. Specific agri-environmental subsidies are one of the potential
instruments to favour their conservation, but most of SW EU mountain areas lack them. This
study aims to analyse how current agricultural payment schemes from CAP and Rural
Development Programmes (RDP) can be used to enhance biodiversity conservation by
promoting the maintenance/recovery of the traditional extensive management of mesophile
hay meadows in Natura 2000 areas within SW EU territory. To reach this goal, an extensive
review and characterisation of economic instruments and sectoral experiences applied to the
conservation of these meadows in Europe has been carried out. In addition, a clustering and
comparative analysis of their main features, transfer possibilities and implementation results
have been addressed. As a result, this study proposes strategic guidelines to design and put
into practice future economic measures to conserve mesophile hay meadows in different SW
EU mountain protected areas.
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Keywords
Mesophile hay meadows Mountains, Subsidies Conservation South-west Europe
Citation
García-de-la-Fuente, Laura; Guzmán Otano, David; Mora Cabello de Alba, Amparo; Nobre, Sílvia; Brau-Nogué, Catherine (2018). Designing economic instruments to maintain and enhance hay meadows biodiversity in South-West Europe. In Proceedings of the 27th General Meeting of the European Grassland Federation. Cork. p. 721-723. ISBN 978-1-84170-643-6