Media Gallery
Videos
Maintaining traditions – The Stone Day
2010
Place: Estonia Category: EAFRD Projects
Tags: traditions, Leader, Estonian RDP
This video case study shows a popular and practical training day supported by the LEADER approach. During the training day, participants learned traditional stonemasonry skills.
EAFRD Compilation: project examples from the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development
December 2013
Place: EU-wide Category: EAFRD Projects
Tags: EAFRD, rural development, local development, ENRD, Food, Employment, countryside, EU
The European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) is the main source of finance for EU rural development policy. This ENRD film explains the broad range of support that is available from the EAFRD and features rural areas from more than 20 of the EU Member States, thus illustrating the incredible diversity that exists in Europe's countryside.
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Supporting rural jobs and Agroforestry landscapes on Lesvos
November 2013
Place: Lesvos, GreeceCategory: EAFRD Projects
Tags: EAFRD, ENRD, agroforestry, Greece, Lesvos
This case study highlights how Greece's Rural Development Programme is using EU funds to help farmers continue to operate in areas that suffer from 'natural handicaps'. The financial support not only helps to maintain livelihoods within rural communities but it also generates multiplier effects concerning the conservation of cultural landscapes.
Farmers Observing Plant and Animals in the Cultural Landscape
August 2013
Place: AustriaCategory: EAFRD Projects
Tags: Farmer, agri-environment, training, Austria, Rural Development Programme
This video case study explains how farmers can be trained to identify the species that their agri-environment payments are designed to protect. It provides an interesting approach to helping increase the visibility of results from agri-environment support schemes and the training project was funded using co-finance from Austria's Rural Development Programme.
Positive benefits flow from agri-environment funding support in Scotland
June 2013
Place: ScotlandCategory: EAFRD Projects
Tags: benefits, agri-environment, funding, Scotland, conservation, farm wildlife, rural economy, Rural Development Programme
This video case study from Scotland presents an example of the biodiversity benefits that agri-environment funds from Rural Development Programmes can help to sustain. It also highlights the multiplier effects for rural economies that such nature conservation funding for farms can produce.
Community Centre Project Video
Place: West Cork, IrelandCategory: ENRD
Tags: ENRD, LEADER, EAFRD, Ireland, West Cork
The video showcases an LEADER project implemented in the West Cork county in Ireland. Different actors involved in the project share their views on the benefits of the creation of the community centre. They are also highlighting the importance of the EU funding.
