To be resilient, farms need to adapt to an evolving environment. Organised support groups enable people to share personal experiences and ideas that push the whole group forward. At a local level, peer groups of farmers help each other adapt to change by sharing knowledge, innovations to be tested, failures and successes. Peer groups benefit from collective strength and professional facilitation.
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Resilience For Dairy
This factsheet explains how bringing a team of farmer, vet, feed and farm advisors together is sharing different sources of knowledge together, making the Multi Actor Farm Health approach an effective approach to improve biosecurity on poultry farms
This case study is drafting new legislation that allows renting forestland for multiple purposes in order to increase economic efficiency and maintain a balance between all ecosystem services. This Russian case works on regulation mechanisms so that people renting forestland can use it for multiple purposes, and to include ecosystem services in the Forest Code.
This factsheet explores how managing forests to be used as spiritual forests and forest kindergartens could benefit both the forest and the forest owner. The core impact of the case study is to raise awareness of the importance of cultural ecosystem services and to motivate forest actors to manage forests appropriately.