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,...

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...

Food supply for the growing world population significantly contributes to ecological and societal challenges. At the same time, there is a growing demand from policies, society and the food sector to improve sustainability in agriculture. Through operational management, farmers can contribute to an improvement of sustainability while adapting their farm...

MagosVölgy Ecological Farm was established in 2013 by Judit and Zoltán Dezsény, a young urban-to-rural migrant couple. MagosVölgy Ecological Farm is situated in North-Hungary, 85 km north to the capital of Budapest. MagosVölgy literally means Seeds Valley as well as Elevated Valley. Seed is the core symbol of life, representing the...

This newsletter is the second edition of the Farm-Success Project newsletter. The Farm-Success Project newsletter outlines all of the most recent Farm-Success Project developments, detailing the Project’s road to creating strategies to train farmers for a sustainable succession process in order to enable and to motivate young farmers to continue...

The European Union and Chile last month (7 April) concluded negotiations on a trade agreement in organic products. The deal provides that Santiago and Brussels will mutually recognise the equivalence of their organic production rules and control system and “ensure a high level of respect for the principle for organic...

TV5 Monde documentary about Saschiz, Romania and Fundatia ADEPT Transilvania`s contribution to develop and sustain the area.

Romanian National Rural development Network Newsletter, National, and international subjects

In 2015, 119 million European citizens, representing almost a quarter of the EU population, were at risk of poverty and social exclusion. Statistics show that the average poverty rate is slightly higher in rural areas, with very contrasting situations across the Union as some countries display a huge poverty gap...

Model Sheep Fold is a good example of how traditional farming methods are supported by technical exper-tise to ensure that the traditional way of life in Romanian villages may be maintained. Solar panels supply the shepherds with electricity for light and for charging their cell phones. This enables the shepards...

In Noord-Brabant, a region in South-West Netherlands, Govert van Dis and his wife Phily Brooijmans are running an organic arable farm of around 100 hectares. They run the farm together and actively follow innovations in agroecology. Crops are grown without the use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers, therefore crop rotation...

It has been known for centuries that nature and agriculture nourish each other. Before intensive agricultural practices became widespread throughout the world during the second half of the 20th century, agricultural areas represented not only food sources for the human population, but also areas thriving with a diversity of plant...

Supporting farm businesses is a key priority of the Rural Development Programmes (RDPs), notably through investments in physical assets (Measure 4) and farm and business development (Measure 6). Such investments can help farms to modernise their processes or diversify their activities, enabling them to survive in the modern economy by...

“NATURAL WATER RETENTION MEASURES (NWRMs) are multi-functional measures that aim to protect water resources and address water-related challenges by restoring or maintaining ecosystems as well as natural features and characteristics of water bodies using natural means and processes. The main focus of applying NWRM is to enhance the retention capacity...

Rural businesses can develop in very diverse sectors of activity. The local opportunities will usually depend on the specific characteristics of the territory. Targeted investments in areas of local opportunity can create jobs, increase spending power and create sustainable economic growth in rural areas. One growth area in recent years...