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LINKING FOOD AND TOURISM VALUE CHAINS WITH CONSERVATION OF MOUNTAIN GRASSLANDS BIODIVERSITY: THE CASE OF DIMITROVGRAD VISOK 2016 http://ezaposleni.singidunum.ac.rs/rest/sciNaucniRezultati/oai/record/1/5450 http://www.katun.me/administracija/kcfinder/upload/files/Book%20of%20Abstracts%20FIN%282%29.pdf S. Đorđević Milošević V. Jovanović L. Amidžić S. Milošević S. Đorđević LINKING FOOD AND TOURISM VALUE CHAINS WITH CONSERVATION OF MOUNTAIN GRASSLANDS BIODIVERSITY: THE CASE OF DIMITROVGRAD VISOK Đorđević-Milošević Suzana1 , Jovanović Verka2 , Amidžić Lidija3 , Milošević Slobodan4 , Đorđević Slađana 5 Abstract: With the abandonment of grazing, some of the most valuable nature protected mountain areas of the world have been exposed to the biodiversity loss. Dimitrovgrad Visok, the southernmost part of West Balkan Mt. Nature Park largely owes its high level of protection to biodiverse grasslands. Their valuable composition is mainly results of centuries of transhumance impact as much as impact of the other extensive farming systems. In last half century these systems almost ceased to exist causing obvious biodiversity loss. Rehabilitation of anropozoogenic impact is imposed itself as the logical and inevitable solution for biodiversity conservation, yet the way how to do it seems to be a chalenge, since any solution proposed should be economicaly viable to oppose the reason why the prevous farming practices were repealed. The paper uses a case study approach to examine traditional farming systems responsible for creating valuable biodiversity and provide inputs for their adjustments to modern conditions. Wider context of local rural economy was explored along with the structure of farming systems and their evolution using modified method of participatory rural apprisal. Finally GIS cartographic visualization method was employed to analyze the content of the target geographic space and generate an attribute of complex information of the explored space. Results obtained indicate that simple solutions such as plain rehabilitation of traditional pastoral systems is not an option. New solutions are needed, but still firmly funded in the traditional high nature value farming (HNVF). Traditional rural economy based on pasturemowing production, indigenous artisan products and autochntonic breeds within pastoral and accompanying hunting and gathering culture hold valuable components for modeling. To find mutual interest between nature conservation and population survival rural economy should be diversified and farming systems slightly modified. Short value chains based on the interaction between HNVF compatible livestock farming and tourism, as much as innovative marketing strategies for traditional products seems to be the most potent. The contribution of this paper is the model provided - a vigorous food production-tourism value chain based on the traditional HNVF, capable to provide ecological services while keeping economic rationality, directly and indirectly utilizing anthropo-zoogenic landscapes, related intangible heritage and rural communities products as tourism resources. It is adapted to various challenges (scenarios dependable of climate changes, market oscillations, evolution of development policies and territorial demarcations). Keywords: grasslands, transhumance, value chains, HNVF, biodiversity, tourism conferenceObject 43 ISBN 978-9940-606-08-4, Book of Abstract