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Article de blog
Regional meeting aims to improve social protection for rural Western Balkans
Social protection plays a crucial role in accelerating progress in the fight against hunger, malnutrition and rural poverty, with the potential to transform the lives of rural women and men by improving their well-being and livelihoods.
Still, evidence shows that social protection is lacking for the majority of the food insecure...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Article de revue spécialisée
Soil erosion, regulatory aspects and farmer responsibility: assessing cadastral data
This paper sets out to clarify the factors in soil erosion and soil conservation. The Czech Republic struggles with soil conservation. Shifts in the rural economy, the loss of good-quality agricultural soil to urbanisation, and sub-optimal land management leading to erosion are at issue. Here, we apply quantitative and qualitative...
Czechia
2018 - Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
Article de blog
Hogan: Protecting small farmers my top priority in EU budget negotiations
EU Commissioner for Agriculture & Rural Development Phil Hogan stated that his top priority in the ongoing EU budget negotiation is "protecting the small and medium sized farmer who remains the backbone of Europe's food production and rural communities".
European Union
2018 - European Commission
Article de blog
France struggling to phase out pesticides
France has promised to phase out glyphosate at a quicker rate than the EU. However, successive “Ecophyto plans” have not produced any results and meanwhile, the use of phytosanitary products continues to grow.
France
2018 - Euractiv
Bulletin d'information
Romanian Rural Network News no.9/2018
News and meeting about he Common Agricultural Policy post 2020.
Romania
2018 - MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Événement
AgriResearch Conference - Innovating for the future of farming and rural communities
The EU AgriResearch Conference is dedicated to scientists, farmers, rural communities, industry, advisors, policy-makers, citizens and NGO representatives who wish to learn about EU agriculture and rural R&I activities and achievements and to have their say on how to shape the future of agriculture R&I after 2020. The conference will...
Belgium
2018 - European Commission
Revue spécialisée
EU rural review
This edition of the EU Rural Review focuses on the resource efficiency challenge and examines what the concept of ‘doing more with less’ means for rural development in this regard.
The Earth’s natural resources are fundamental to health, well-being and quality of life on the planet. As the global population approaches...
European Union
2018 - European Network for Rural Development ENRD
Article de revue spécialisée
Europe / AKTEA Network: Perils and Prospects
Twenty years of organising by women in Europe’s fisheries have led to important gains, challenges and opportunities. In Europe, fisheries are considered a male activity, as men represent the main labour force on fishing vessels. This stereotype has dominated European society for many decades, despite the fact that several social scientists...
European Union
2018 - ICSF
Article de blog
Safe, sustainable, quality: citizens share their views on EU food and farming
Following the publication last November of the European Commission's Communication on the Future of Food & Farming, the latest EU-wide Eurobarometer survey of public opinion about the common agricultural policy show that just over 60% of respondents believe that the common agricultural policy (CAP) benefits all citizens and not just...
European Union
2018 - European Commission
Site web
Innovation for Agriculture
The Portuguese National Rural Network has launched a website dedicated to innovation for agriculture. It highlights innovation in Portugal and, more widely, in Europe that can contribute to more sustainability and productivity in agriculture, forestry and rural areas. The website also includes information on Operational Groups and other innovative projects that...
Portugal
2018 - National Rural Development Network
Article de blog
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
Article de blog
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
Article de blog
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
Directives
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
Article 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
Fiche d'information
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
Site 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
Directives
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
Ouvrage
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
Ouvrage
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
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