A New Noah's Ark: Securing the Transfer of Ancestral Agricultural Knowledges Across Europe's Changing Regions of Environmental Suitability

气候变化正在影响欧洲的农业版图，使旧世界地中海（OWM）的古代农业区升温，并在更北的地方形成新世界地中海（NWM）地区。它还破坏了农业创新和转移的历史模式，这些模式需要时间进行反复试验才能取得成果，需要长期的社会地理稳定和安全的代际传承结构。这些参数的崩溃威胁到欧洲祖先农业知识的保存和转移，而这恰恰是欧洲最需要的，破坏了她的遗产和未来的社会经济安全。目前，无论是在公共部门还是私营部门，都没有系统的知识转移提供来解决这一问题并支持欧洲家庭农业，而粮农组织认为家庭农业是可持续发展的核心和基础。因此，失去最佳农业生产适宜性的地区的中小型生产者没有现实的适应战略，也没有对其文化和生产资产的长期保障。它们在日益合适的生产区域的对应方同时缺乏充分利用其生产能力和吸引投资所需的传统专门知识，也缺乏获得认证的名称给予其全球竞争者的市场优势。为了解决这一问题，NOAH将开发和测试一种新的、全面的、以生产者为中心的服务，该服务结合了人类学制图、价值认证和基于许可的知识转移，以协调在环境变化的生产领域中保护、快速和互利地传播祖传农业知识。这项服务将通过成立一个社会企业来提供，该企业旨在支持欧洲各地濒临灭绝的家庭农民，并帮助他们保护其生产和文化资产。

Climate change is affecting Europe's agricultural map, by warming up its ancient agricultural regions in the Old World Mediterranean (OWM) and creating New World Mediterranean (NWM) regions farther north. It is also disrupting historical patterns of agricultural innovation and transfer, which require time for trial-and-error processes to bear their fruits, long-term socio-geographical stability, and safe inter-generational transmission structures. The collapse of these parameters threatens the preservation and transfer of Europe's ancestral agricultural knowledges precisely when she most needs them, undermining her heritage and future socio- economic security. No systemic knowledge-transfer provision currently exists, either in the public or private sector, to address this problem and support European family farming, which the FAO considers to be the core and foundation of sustainable development. As a result, small- and medium-sized producers in regions losing optimal suitability for agricultural production are left with no realistic adaptation strategies, and no long-term security for their cultural and productive assets. Their counterparts in increasingly suitable regions of production concurrently lack the traditional know-how required to fully exploit their productive capacities and attract investments, and the market advantage that certified designations afford their global competitors. To solve this problem, NOAH will develop and test a new and holistic producer-centred service that combines anthropological mapping, value-certification, and licensing-based knowledge- transfer, to mediate the protected, rapid, and mutually beneficial transmission of ancestral agricultural know-how across environmentally changing areas of production. The service will be provided through the incorporation of a social enterprise that aims to support endangered family farmers across Europe and help them protect their productive and cultural assets.