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GIS Jour fixe at HBLFA Raumberg-Gumpenstein in June 2023
Three times a year an inter-agency GIS Jour fixe takes place in the agricultural sector to maintain a permanent exchange of knowledge, initiate and coordinate projects for all topics with direct or indirect spatial reference. Host for the date from 19. to 20.06.2023 was the HBLFA Raumberg-Gumpenstein. It was possible to participate both physically on site and via Zoom. BAB was represented on site by five people. Topics discussed included geospatial base data, REST GDI agriculture, land use...
European Congress for Rural Sociology
From 3 - 7 July 2023, the European Congress of Rural Sociology of the ESRS (European Society for Rural Sociology) took place in Rennes, France, dedicated to the issues of "Crises and Futures of Rural Areas". https://esrs2023.institut-agro-rennes-angers.fr/ With 32 working groups as well as various excursions and side events, the approximately 400 participants were offered an extensive and varied programme. The BAB was involved in the organisation of three working groups: WG 4 - The Role of...
Participation in the 3rd Caucasus Mountain Forum in Georgia
The 3rd Caucasus Mountain Forum on "Transdiciplinarity for Sustainable Tourism Development: Role of Caucasus Scientists" took place in Kutaisi, Georgia, from 4-6 July 2023. It was complemented by a field trip to the mountain region of Svaneti, which showed participants the specific challenges and opportunities of sustainable mountain development. Thomas Dax, who together with Theresia Oedl-Wieser has recently provided expertise on the implementation of local development initiatives in...
Erasmus+ Project: Strengthening Social Capital in Rural Communities for Rural Development Social Capital
The Erasmus+ Project "Strengthening Social Capital in Rural Communities for Rural Development" aims to elaborate and communicate the topic of social capital for extension workers for rural development processes in Turkey https://www.utemooc.org/. The training materials and short videos about the eight study regions in Austria, Portugal, Spain and Turkey, are accessible for extension workers - following the principle of train the trainer - as well as for the residents in rural regions of...
Contribution to the conference: Bridging the Gender Gap in Rural Mountain Regions - Challenges: Digitalization as an opportunity - Case study Mestia (Georgia)
The contribution of Theresia Oedl-Wieser dealt with the empowerment of women in a high mountain region in Georgia or results of community-led local development initiatives. Among other things, it was shown that many local activities are based on long-term socio-cultural processes that require a deep awareness of site-specific conditions and sufficient time for the development of adapted measures. The presentation of Th. Oedl-Wieser starts at minute 52:26 and can be accessed at the following...
Austrian study study tour in the framework of the Erasmus+ project UniClaD
Within the framework of the Erasmus+ project UniClaD ("Enhancing capacity of universities to initiate and to participate in clusters development on innovation and sustainability principles ") a series of study tours to EU countries are carried out with the aim to support the consortium partners in the development of agrofood clusters in Moldova, Ukraine and Azerbaijan. From March 27 to 31, 2023, a study tour was conducted in Austria, organized by the Federal Institute of Agricultural...
Land Use in Flood-Prone Areas and Its Significance for Flood Risk Management
Interim results of the POCO-Flood project have been published in the scientific open access journal LAND: Land 2022, 11, 392. https://doi.org/10.3390/land11030392 They deal with the topic of land use and conflicts of use in flood risk zones in alpine areas of Austria. The work of the Federal Institute of Agricultural Economics and Mountain Farming points to the relatively high proportion of arable land with great economic importance for agricultural enterprises especially in alpine flood...
Rural Service hubs and socially innovative rural-urban linkages: A conceptual framework for nexogenous development
In the framework of the ROBUST project, a paper on "Rural Service hubs and socially innovative rural-urban linkages: A conceptual framework for nexogenous development" was recently published. Bryonny Goodwin-Hawkins, University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham, UK Theresia Oedl-Wieser, Federal Institute of Agricultural Economics, Rural and Mountain Research, Vienna, Austria Ulla Ovaska, Natural Resources Institute Finland, Helsinki, Finland Aimee Morse, University of Gloucestershire,...
Study on the adaptation stragegies of the sugar supply chain after the end of the sugar quotas
On 31 January 2022, the European Commission published the study "Adaptation strategies of the sugar supply chain after the end of sugar quotas". The Federal Institute of Agricultural Economics, Rural and Mountain Research contributed to this work with a case study conducted in spring 2021. The study examines the consequences of the end of quotas for the EU sugar sector and assesses whether and to what extent the sector's adjustment strategies are appropriate for responding to the changed...
CoRoots project meeting in Soria, Spain
In the framework of the project CoRoots (Co-learning methods to improve resilience management in rural areas) the project meeting with Spanish and Portuguese project partners took place this time in Soria (Central Spain). The region is characterised by migration and is very sparsely populated. On the barren soils of the cold plateau, the landscape is characterised by hat pastures and barley fields (for beer production). Cives Mundi - our Spanish project partner - is an NGO dedicated to...
Study on low/no alcohol beverages
At the beginning of March 2023, the European Commission published a "Study on low/no alcohol beverages", in which the Federal Institute of Agricultural Economics and Mountain Farming also participated in the context of conducting a case study in Austria. The background to the study commissioned by the European Commission (EC) is the increasing supply of low-alcohol beverages (e.g. low/no-alcohol beer, dealcoholised wine) and the lack of an EU-wide legal framework for these products. The...
EP: Women in the countryside - an academic and a farmer’s perspective
Im Rahmen der Gleichstellungswoche 2021 des Europäischen Parlaments fand in der letzten Oktoberwoche 2021 auf Initiative des Ausschusses für Landwirtschaft und ländliche Entwicklung eine öffentliche Anhörung zum Thema "Frauen auf dem Lande - eine akademische und bäuerliche Perspektive" statt, um die Rolle der Frauen im ländlichen Raum zu beleuchten. Dazu wurden zwei Expertinnen und Buchautorinnen – Theresia Oedl-Wieser und Céline Berthier – eingeladen, um ihre Erfahrungen und...