Smallholder farmers produce most of the food in developing countries, but still they account for majority of the 800 million food insecure and poorest people globally. The World Food Programme (WFP) is the largest humanitarian organization fighting hunger worldwide. Smallholders and their families account for a large portion of our...

This booklet has been written by the European Access to Land network in cooperation with Urgenci, the network for Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), based on CSA members’ stories from across Europe. Land and communities – new building stones for European food and agriculture. In the last 10 years alone, Europe has...

A  leaflet on opportunities for small-scale coastal fishermen in the EMFF.

The FAO Director-General argued that the world's rural areas will be the key battleground in the push to achieve the 2030 sustainable development agenda, since it is there that poverty and hunger are most concentrated.At the same time, most of the increases in agricultural yields required to feed a world...

This report provides information regarding the state of implementation of the current CAP young farmers’ mechanism. The different implementation styles of the Members States are described and the currently implemented policy tools are evaluated. Based on the secondary analysis and case studies, several policy recommendations are formulated, aimed at improving...

Benchmarking can support farmers to improve their productivity and sustainability performance. At its simplest, benchmarking is defined as improving the performance, of a farm, for example, by comparing with peers, learning from others and identifying actions. Valuable lessons can be drawn from benchmarking by raising the subsequent questions: why are...

A book celebrating EU agriculture: produce, culinary traditions and the role of farmers and agri-cooperatives

The Expert Meeting on Climate Change Implications for Mediterranean and Black Sea Fisheries, was held at the GFCM, Rome, 4–6 December 2017, with the objective to provide technical support the development of an adaptation strategy to cope with the potential effects of climate change on fisheries, in the framework of...

How the failure to properly recognise and regulate the EU’s fish producer organisations [POs] is failing the Common Fisheries Policy and smaller-scale fishermen and what should be done to resolve it.

Are the founding principles of open source – the ability to share, distribute, modify and reproduce information – transferable to agriculture? If in the computer field, free software is now a reality, this paper examines whether and how agricultural tools can be created and disseminated through ‘free’ processes. We look...

This edition includes perspectives on LEADER/CLLD, forestry, integrated approaches to rural policy and the new European Solidarity Corps, as well as short updates from the Slovenian and Slovakian networks. The edition’s thematic section brings ‘A focus on… social inclusion’, including an overview of social inclusion challenges in rural Europe, highlights of...

The Focus Group on reducing emissions from cattle farming explored possibilities for mitigating emissions of ethane and ammonia from cattle – and their cost effectiveness. Its scope included both milk and meat cattle and all types of production intensities but was limited to mitigation measures at animal and animal housing...

Sweden: extra quota allocation to trawlers could put the survival of the Western Baltic Cod stock and SSFs are risk

The newsletter of November 2017 includes: ICCAT 2017: historically high bluefin tuna quota – but what about small-scale fishers? Fundacja MARE and LIFE at the forefront for a cleaner Baltic Sea Other news from around the EU News from our members Welcome on board Press review

The Seminar will discuss practical opportunities for promoting 'Resource Efficiency' through the Rural Development Programmes (RDPs). It is intended for anyone involved in RDP implementation at the European, national, regional and local levels. The event will build on ongoing ENRD thematic work on  ‘Resource Efficiency’, including aspects such as water use...

The European Commission’s DG Agriculture and Rural Development, with the support of the Croatian Ministry of Agriculture, held an EIP-AGRI workshop on 7-8 February 2017 in Zagreb, Croatia. This workshop aimed to discuss the uptake and ways to increase the uptake of the broad range of sustainability tools involving environmental...

L'élevage est un secteur majeur pour l'économie des territoires et structure les paysages ruraux en Europe. Mais il fait aussi l'objet de controverses (dommages environnementaux, bien-être animal...). Un très riche travail de synthèse des connaissances a été conduit dans le cadre d'une expertise collective, dont une synthèse est ici présentée....

Dirty stable floors where manure is difficult to remove lead to increased emissions and is problematic for animal welfare as infection can spread quickly. A number of companies are working on improving existing building solutions to reduce emissions and improve animal welfare

The forty-first session of the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean as well as the eighth session of the Committee on Administration and Finance was attended by delegates of 22 contracting parties, as well as of three cooperating non-contracting parties and one non-contracting party. Representatives from 20 intergovernmental and non-governmental...

The Neighborhood Women Association from Saschiz was established as a nonprofit association in November 2015, by a group of 23 women who live and/or work in the village: housewives, entrepreneurs, doctors, teachers, aiming to promote and support the common rights and interests of women and families in rural areas at micro-regional,...