Summary

The EIP-AGRI Operational Group MUNTER developed a management template for farmers and communities to implement increased environmental protection along with nature conservation, crop production and livestock farming.

The project also tested new formats for knowledge exchange among stakeholders and developed tools to support these participative processes.

 

Results

For the first time, farmers, municipalities, water managers, nature conservationists and authorities worked out new multi-use concepts and implemented them together.

Flood prevention concepts included income diversification opportunities from agroforestry and biomass production. These also result in reduced hydrocarbon fuel requirements, through use of materials as biofuels.

As a result of the cooperation between these partners, the Ministry of the Environment and the Ministry of Agriculture of Rhineland-Palatinate are encouraging similar flood risk reduction projects across the area.