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A new brochure of inspiring examples of social innovation in mountain areas!
SIMRA’s fourth brochure collecting examples of social innovation in marginalised rural areas has just been published. This collection of brochures aims at concretely illustrating social innovation through the presentation of local on-going initiatives throughout Europe and the Mediterranean basin, taking turns addressing different marginalized rural areas. This brochure addresses mountain...
2018 - Euromontana
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Urgenci calls for action for a sustainable food system
2018 is the year for change and action! As part of the European days of Action, Urgenci joins forces with organizations across Europe to call out to decision makers to support a sustainable transformation of our food systems. During the month of October awareness rising events will take place across...
2018 - Urgenci
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German farmer Kirsten Wosnitza works on resilient dairy farming
Dairy farming is currently facing a number of challenges. On the one hand, the products have to meet high environmental standards and animal welfare requirements, on the other hand the market demands cheap products. Kirsten Wosnitza, who runs a farm of 120 dairy cows in Schleswig-Holstein with her husband Gerd...
Germany
2018 - Eip Agri Agriculture&Innovation
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How to enhance rural innovation? Key messages from the OECD conference
The 11th OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) Rural Development Conference was held in Edinburgh on 9-12 April 2018. Prior to the main conference, a series of interactive sessions, led by the European Network for Rural Development, showcased projects and approaches already launched by rural communities to face 21st...
2018 - Euromontana
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Rural Development Programming: less complexity and more focus on results needed
The EU plans to spend on rural development policy nearly 100 billion euro for the period 2014-2020 through the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD). An objective of the EU strategic framework for 2014-2020 was to focus more on results. However, efforts to achieve this faced the perennial problem...
European Union
2018 - European Union
Directrices
The European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development
The EAFRD holds a budget of €96.4 billion and is available for co-financing rural development projects in the 27 EU Member States. Governed by Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005, the EAFRD is focused on three main types of rural development activities. These are: • Improving the competitiveness of agriculture and forestry;...
2018 - European Network for Rural Development
Artículo de blog
We need transition farming in the EU
European tastes are changing and so must farms, therefore we need to support a transition away from industrial animal farming
European Union
2018 - EurActiv
Artículo de blog
A new EP study on the impact of wolves on farmers in rural regions of Europe has been published
In the context of the recent recolonization of many European areas by large carnivores, the European Parliament has commissioned a study presenting the state of play in EU Member States. The study gathers the most recent data available on large carnivores’ populations in the EU’s Member States, evaluates the impact...
2018 - Euromontana
Hoja informativa
Conect-e sharing traditional ecological knowledge
International treaties and conventions encourage national governments to recognize, protect, and promote traditional knowledge, including traditional agroecological knowledge. Following this mandate, a multidisciplinary team of Spanish scientists from 7 universities and research centers have worked together with the Spanish seed network ‘Red de Semillas: Resembrando e Intercambiando’ to develop CONECT-e....
Spain
2018 - Contect-e
Sitio web
OK-Net Arable - exchange knowledge, enhance organic farming
New project – OK-Net EcoFeed – aims at helping organic pig and poultry farmers in achieving the goal of 100% use of organic and regional feed.
A key objective of organic farming is that animals are fed with feed produced at or near the farm. Yet, this is difficult to achieve...
European Union
2018
Artículo de blog
Romania has a new Mountain Law!
On Thursday 19 July 2018, the Romanian President signed the decree passing the Mountain Law.
Long awaited by the Romanian mountain communities, the law comes to regulate the ways to protect and develop the mountain area in an inclusive and sustainable manner, through: valorizing the human and natural resources, increasing the...
Romania
2018 - Euromontana
Directrices
Collaborate to innovate
EIP-AGRI Operational Groups are innovative projects that aim to find practical solutions to problems or opportunities which European farmers and foresters are currently facing. More than 3200 are planned by national and regional Rural Development Programmes for the period 2014-2020. Operational Groups can benefit from networking and collaborating with organisations...
2018 - Eip Agri Agriculture & Innovation
Libro
What gender mainstreaming means in practice
Cases from selected countries of the European Union
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has continuously demonstrated within its work that gender equality is not simply a matter of human rights, but is key to eliminating poverty and hunger. It is only by closing the gender gap that sustainable agriculture and rural development can...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Artículo de blog
Valorisation of Mountain Products in Lombardy
ERSAF, the Italian regional agency for agriculture and forestry services, who has been collaborating with Euromontana for many years for the promotion and valorisation of mountain products, started an experimental project, with the Lombardy Region, to implement the use of the optional quality scheme for “mountain products” in some of its...
Italy
2018 - Euromontana
Libro
Republic of Moldova value chain gap analysis
Agriculture and food industry sectors have a major importance for the Moldovan economy. The Republic of Moldova has one of the highest share of rural population among the countries in Europe and Central Asia, and its agriculture sector significantly contributes to the country’s gross domestic product. The Food and Agriculture...
Republic of Moldova
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Hoja informativa
Agroecological symbiosis
Agroecological symbiosis (AES) is a new, transformative model for adaptive and resilient localized food production and consumption. An AES is formed by farms, small and medium-scale food processors, and bioenergy producers working as one system, in close proximity to each other. The physical proximity is dictated by the ecological necessity...
Finland
2018 - University of Helsinki
Artículo de revista especializada
Comparative study on the profile of agricultural holdings without legal status in the development regions north-east and south-east of Romania
The agricultural holdings without legal status, largely overlapping the rural population’s households and providing content to the individual households, namely the peasant households, preserve the continuity of the vernacular village in terms of the community land and in demographic terms, through the families living in the villages, whose main occupation...
Romania
2018 - “Gheorghe Zane” Institute of Economic and Social Research, Romanian Academy, Iasi Branch
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Social innovation in the Balkans: a new brochure of examples now available
SIMRA has just released its third brochure collecting examples of social innovation in marginalised rural areas in the Balkan peninsula.
The focus of the SIMRA project is on the European Union and the Mediterranean area, including the Balkan Peninsula in South-East Europe which includes both countries which are Member States of...
2018 - Euromontana
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Dairy Congress kicks off next phase of EU-FAO-EBRD support for Georgian milk producers
The benefits of cooperation and opportunities for small- and medium-sized dairy enterprises topped the agenda of the Second Caucasus Dairy Congress held in Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi, today.
The event, supported by the European Union and Georgia’s Ministry of Agriculture, was the latest effort by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Libro
Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition in Europe and Central Asia 2018
FAO’s Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition in Europe and Central Asia 2018 (Regional SOFI 2018 in ECA) describes the current situation vis-à-vis SDG 2 in countries of the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region. It focuses in particular on the countries’ status in relation to SDG Target 2.1...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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