Capacity Building Tools

Guidelines

General Guidelines

• Creation of Enterprises in Rural Area (CRER): Methodology to support entrepreneurs: 'Business creation support methodology' [PDF], Portugal, November 2008
• Entrepreneurship Game, Raising Awareness Among Decision Makers, Sweden. For description of the Entrepreneurship game please click here.
• Dr. Fieldsend A. and Boone J., Praxis: Making Rural Entrepreneurship Work: Praxis Rural Entrepreneurship Toolkit: A practical guide to stimulating entrepreneurship in rural areas [PDF], Interreg IIIC project, Writtle College, Essex, UK, October 2007

Local Food

• Web based guide/portal for local producers, Estonia [PDF ]
• Local Food Marketing Guide, SAC- supporting the land-based industries for over a century, funded by the Scottish Government Rural Directorate, Scotland, United Kingdom, 2007

Forestry

• Booklet on good practice guidance on the sustainable mobilization of wood in Europe, European Commission, DG Agriculture and Rural Development, March 2010 [PDF ]
• Report on The utilisation of mountain wood and the organisation of mountain wood industries form Euromontana which explores good practices in extraction and use of woods and organisational aspects in the wood supply-chain in mountain areas. It includes good-practices fiches at national level.