"Nuremberg Metropolitan Region as the Home for Regional Products" Guideline for land development and regional products - Primary goal: maintaining ...
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“Nuremberg Metropolitan Region as
the Home for Regional Products”
Guideline for land development and
regional products
Primary goal: maintaining a high quality of life on the
basis of a balanced urban-rural interdependence in
the Metropolitan Region
Agricultural land for the production of regional products in the
Metropolitan Region is under pressure:
Conversion of Land
Production Made Difficult
Annually, 5,000 hectares of
Production and processing of typical
agricultural land are converted to
regional products are under pressure.
different uses (settlements, traffic,
forests).
Declining Acceptance
Fewer Enterprises
The population‘s /consumers‘ acceptance
Annually, 150 agricultural enterprises* of highly industrialised agriculture and
are losing the basis for their farming food industry is declining.
activities.
Competition
Decreasing Diversity There is increasing competition between
The diversity of landscapes is food production and energy production.
decreasing..
* Assumed size of enterprise 33 hectares
Make Use of Good Starting Position
in Nuremberg Metropolitan Region
High share of Diversity of cultivated Diversity of regional
agricultural land landscapes food stuffs & specialities
Enables Citizens’ Food Sovereignty.
Food sovereignty means that the citizens of the Metropolitan Region are able to purchase fresh,
regional and ecological food stuffs locally.What contribution can we make in the Metropolitan
Region?
The Metropolitan Region can make visible
creeping changes on a regional level and
open up new perspectives for everybody‘s
activities.
It cannot perform miracles, but on
the regional level, it can open up
scope for shaping change
through joint activities which
might not exist on a local level.What possibilities do municipalities have?
With a decision taken by the Council of Nuremberg
European Metropolitan Region, the municipalities in
the Metropolitan Region have committed voluntarily to
the goals of the guideline for the region.
Within their possibilities, they
commited to initiate and promote the
measures and fields of activities listed
in the guideline, by means of
independently organised projects.
“Breathing Guidelines”
Regular reflection on the guideline by council members and
mayors is planned, with particular emphasis on the urban-rural
partnership and with the aid of the land use monitoring tool
In a conference, the guideline is to be updated, and best
practice examples for its implementation are to be presented.Overall Goal
Maintaining cultivated landscapes and agricultural land in Nuremberg
Metropolitan Region as the basis for a sovereign supply with regional food stuffs,
in order to secure employment and value creation, and to maintain the social and
ecological achievements of agriculture.
Sector Goals
Expanding ecological
Maintaining sufficient Developing regional value agriculture to 30% (2030)
agricultural land for creation and securing and maintaining the diverse
regional products markets for typical regional cultivated landscapes and
foods stuffs and specialities their social and ecological
6 achievementsGoal 1:
Economise
land use
Efforts to introduce the category of “agricultural
priority land” into the Bavarian State Development
Programme and into the Regional Plans
Maintaining sufficient Establishing large-scale land management by
Implementation Project
agricultural land for (IP) setting up and using a land monitoring tool
regional products
Working towards an innovative compensation land
management by attaching higher value to PIK
measures (Production-Integrated Compensation
IP*
Measures)
Consistent application of the instruments of state
and regional planning by increased designation of
priority landscapes
* Implementation Project (IP) under
discussionGoal 2:
Strengthen regional agriculture
through pilot projects
Communicating the diversity and effect
of regional products PR work (events, training courses,
information materials)
Closing gaps in regional value creation
chains Introducing & testing value creation
IP* chain management
More comprehensive integration of
regional and organic products in
Developing regional municipal institutions/ increasing Introducing & monitoring a “Regional
value creation and municipal demand for regional and IP* Organic Quota” for municipal tenders
securing markets for organic products
typical regional food
stuffs and specialities Setting up an online marketing platform
Establishing and developing regional
value creation partnerships for regional products
IP*
Development of artisanal food Establishing an umbrella brand
production with regard to regionality and “Orchard-grown fruit from the
ecology IP* Metropolitan Region”
Developing climate-friendly logistics Logistics concept for a regional market
solutions for marketing regional hall as a trade centre for regional
* Implementation Project (IP) products product from the Metropolitan Region
under discussionGoal 3:
Support ecological agriculture
Improving soil quality, strengthening soil as
CO2 storage, promoting biodiversity (e.g.
small fruit orchards)
Expanding ecological agriculture to
Developing/expanding eco model regions
30% (2030) and maintaining the IP*
diverse cultivated landscapes and
their social and ecological
achievements
Supporting sustainable agriculture, e.g.
reduction of pesticide use
Maintaining richly structured cultivated
landscapes and landscape structures such as
hedges, copses and grasslands
Supporting new forms of participation in land
ownership, participation in enterprises and
* Implementation Project (IP) under producer-consumer cooperation
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