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Practice: Sustainable farming practices . Implemented for: Baltic Sea Regional Project, Tranche 1.

Overview

Name Sustainable farming practices for The Baltic Sea Regional Project, Tranche 1

Practice Sustainable farming practices

Project Baltic Sea Regional Project, Tranche 1

Beneficiary country: Y

Region: Baltic Sea Central and Eastern Europe Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia

Details

Description:

A change of attitude towards more environmentally sustainable farming practices with clearly demonstrable economic benefits among farmers in the Baltic States, and to some extent in the Kaliningrad region of Russia.

Farmers participated in introductory environmental seminars in all beneficiary countries; Farms/farmers participated in EMS courses offered by BSRP; Farms/farmers benefited from the BSRP agrienvironmental credit scheme.

Lessons learned: Different riparian countries may require different approaches; Limited GEF resources can still have a major impact.

Comments: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and the Russian Federation Russian Federation is a beneficiary country

Implementation start date: 2003-01-01

Implementation end date: 2007-12-31

Link to project documents: Project documents http://www.ices.dk/projects/balticsea.asp

Link to project reports: Project reports http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2008/07/04/000333038_20080704055246/Rendered/PDF/ICR5850ICR0P041isclosed0July0202008.pdf

Results

Annual tons of nitrogen reduced: 864

Annual tons of phosphorous reduced: 47

Other outcomes: Two areas of wetlands have been restored to increase the retention of nutrients otherwise flowing into the Gulf of Riga and the Curonian Lagoon; A change of attitude towards more environmentally sustainable farming practices with clearly demonstrable economic benefits among farmers in the Baltic States, and to some extent in the Kaliningrad region of Russia.

Finance

Total co-finance (USD): 6,620,000

Total GEF/WB investment: USD 5.5 million

Contacts

Other partners: Council of the Baltic Sea States Baltic Marine Environment Bibliography Baltic Marine Biologists BONUS BONUS/ICES, Helsinki Commission

World Bank contact: Karin Shepardson

World Bank contact (email): kshepardson@worldbank.org

Project Manager: Jan Thulin

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