Stara Kamienica - Nemo

Acknowledgement
We would like to express our gratitude to all those who gave us the possibility to complete this project
work. We want to thank to the coordinator of Academic Master Cluster course in Wageningen
University for giving us the opportunity to work on the project of sustainable development of
agricultural in Poland.
Furthermore we want to thank our coach Lenny Putman for her humble guidance and also for her
encouragement in critical circumstances to go ahead with this project.
We want to thank Mr. Chiel Zwarts for all his teaching assistance on the communication skill, which
was very helpful for us during dealing with people involved in this project.
Picture 1: Our AMC group and Coach
We also want to thank our financial teacher for making our Poland trip for real research possible by
providing financial help.
Very grateful are we to our commissioner Peter Spruijt who is working for the organization Nemo, for
his stimulating suggestions and freedom to us for producing an excellent quality report. He also helped
us by providing finance and accommodation for making a practical research trip in Poland and proved
his practical attitude and generosity in this regard.
During our stay in Nemoland region, we made various investigations on different aspects with the help
of local people and various organizations. I want to thank them for all their help, support, interest and
valuable hints. Especially we are obliged to the lady in tourism department in Jelenia Góra, part time
farmer Josef, the government officers in the agency of agricultural development in Jelenia Góra, Mrs.
Kasia working against mining, local government officer in Stara Kamienica and mr. Lipinski a rich
local farmer in Nemoland region.
And at last but not the least, we would like to give a special thank to each of our team members for
their cooperation to successfully accomplish this project.
Abstract
Ecotourism has become the fastest growing tourism market in the world because people like to spend
some relaxing time in the nature by living in a very ‘back-to-basic’ way. Nemo is an organization that
has taken ecotourism as an objective for sustainable development of agricultural and tourism in Izer
region of Poland. This organization has the potential to make profit of the benefits of ecotourism in
this beautiful landscape, which is in danger of being destroyed through mining business.
We are a group of master students from Wageningen University, doing an assignment for NEMO to
strengthen the concept of ecotourism of this organization and to attract investors. In this regard, we
made a businessplan. In this book we mentioned current hypothesis of ecotourism in Nemoland region
and prepared a list of suggestions to offer to Nemo and stakeholders in stara Kamienica for
improvement of ecotourism in various ways. We give propositions of better marketing strategies so
that Nemo and also the local farmers can get profit in current circumstances.
NEMO wants to enlarge their network of cooperation with farmers for enhancing ecotourism.
Therefore, we made a model that represents present cooperation with a local farmer and on the basis of
that developed a model for a future network with farmers. We mentioned about legislation for their
quality business. We provide detailed information about possibility of sheep farming and pros and
cons of this business.
Soil quality and planting status is difficult in that region. However, we give possible hints for
improvement of soil quality and various crops option to grow in that region. We also supply the
information about source of finance so that farmers could get some money to commence their own
business and can cooperate for enhancing ecotourism in that region.
In this report several issues are addressed and specific suggestions are given in order to strength
ecotourism to become a positive and effective solution for the areas to overcome economic challenges.