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地图，它使旧世界地中海(OWM)的古老农业区变暖，并在更靠北的地方创造了新世界地中海(NWM)地区。它还扰乱了农业创新和转移的历史模式，这种模式需要时间让反复尝试的过程结出硕果、长期的社会地理稳定和安全的代际传播结构。这些参数的崩溃恰恰在她最需要的时候威胁到了欧洲祖先农业知识的保存和转让，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在私营部门，都没有系统性的知识转让规定来解决这一问题并支持欧洲家庭农业，因为粮农组织认为这是可持续发展的核心和基础。其结果是，失去农业生产最佳适宜性的地区的中小型生产者没有切合实际的适应战略，其文化和生产性资产也没有长期安全保障。它们在越来越适合的生产区的同行同时缺乏充分利用其生产能力和吸引投资所需的传统技术，也缺乏经认证的指定为其全球竞争对手提供的市场优势。为了解决这一问题，诺亚将开发和测试一种新的、以生产者为中心的整体服务，该服务结合了人类学绘图、价值认证和基于许可的知识转让，以调解在环境变化的生产领域中受保护的、快速的和互惠互利的祖传农业技术的传播。这项服务将通过成立一家社会企业来提供，该企业旨在支持欧洲各地的濒危家庭农民，并帮助他们保护自己的生产和文化资产。

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.