Permanent Pastures and Meadows under the CAP: ESTONIA
Estonia falls into the Nemoral and Boreal biogeographical zones – regions naturally dominated by coniferous forests, with extensive mires. Farmers in at least certain parts in Estonia, as in other countries in these zones, traditionally made use of all the possible forage resources available to them to tide their animals over the long winter, whether on the shore, in rocky areas, on floodplains or in forests. This holistic approach to using the landscape for agriculture had the added benefit of freeing up the limited area of good land for arable production, while at the same time enabling the transfer of nutrients from the saltus to replace those removed in the cropping of the ager.
Title of publication: Permanent Pastures and Meadows under the CAP: the situation in 6 countries
Nombre de pages: 22-28
Auteur: Iiri Selge, Pille Koorberg, Eike Lepmets, Aleksei Lotman, Tambet Kikas
Organisation: Europe Forum on nature conservation and pastoralism
Année: 2009
Pays: Estonia
Couverture géographique: Union européenne
Type: Article de revue spécialisée
Texte intégral disponible à l'adresse: http://www.efncp.org/download/EFNCP_Permanent-Pastures-and-Meadows.pdf
Langue: English