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17.11.2013

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The importance of sustainable agriculture toreduce the threat of eutrophication of the Baltic Sea cannot beunderestimated. Agriculture accounts for more than half of the nutrientinputs leading to the eutrophication.

Farmers around the Baltic Sea therefore play acrucial role if we want to change the current situation, since they havethe opportunity to reduce nutrient losses from their farms. With theWWF Baltic Sea Farmer of the Year Award ? we want to inspire farmers inthe entire Baltic Sea region to take an active part in combatingeutrophication.

The Award was founded 2009 by WWF in cooperation with farmers?organisations from around the Baltic Sea. The competition is held on aregional level based upon the results of national competitions held ineach participating Baltic Sea coastal country. A prize sum of 1,000Euros is given to each national winner and a prize sum of 10,000 Eurosto the regional winner, selected by an international jury.

The purpose of the award is to highlight best practices in?Baltic-friendly? farming and to recognize and highlight farmers who areleading in innovative measures to reduce runoff from their farms. Theaward aims to highlight the important role of farmers and the good workthey are already doing, providing excellent examples that others canlearn from. It is also intended to promote cooperation around the regionin order to further the application, and promotion, of goodenvironmental practice in the agricultural sector. The eutrophication ofthe sea should be a common concern for all of us. It affects all of thecountries surrounding the Sea and we all share the responsibility tostop it!

WWF is inviting individual farmers, farmers? organisations and otherinterested parties to apply to the competition. The competition willselect a national winner of the Baltic Sea Farmer of the Year Award fromeach country around the Baltic Sea. The winners of each nationalcompetition will all receive a certificate and a nominal monetary awardof 1000 Euros. The aim of the competition will be to produce 9?winners?, or national nominees, who will demonstrate a range of bestpractices that will be showcased for the entire region.

The nine national winners will also serve as the nominees from which aninternational jury will select one main regional winner ? to be the 2013Regional Baltic Sea Farmer of the Year. The Regional winner willreceive a certificate and a monetary award of 10,000 Euros.

For more information visit: www.wwf.panda.org

 

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Project Industrial animal farms in the Baltic Sea Region - sustainable practices to reduce nutrient loads is a part of a long-term campaign of the Coalition Clean Baltic and Green Federation "GAJA", aiming to reduce the negative impact of large-scale animal production on the environment and local communities in the Baltic Sea Region, particularly by reducing nutrient run-off into the sea. The project is part-financed by the European Union. This website reflects only the view of the Coalition Clean Baltic. The Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME) is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.

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