This report summarises the major outcomes of the Good Practice Workshop, ‘A journey through evaluation plans: Learning from past experiences for the future CAP’.
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French LAGs (Local Action Groups) invite any European LAG interested in cooperating with them to get in touch to identify possible future partnerships.
Leader LAG integrates transnational and/or inter-territorial cooperation. During the current programming period, many difficulties have been encountered by LAGs in the implementation of their respective development strategies, and, consequently, in the emergence and implementation of Leader cooperation projects.
If you are a LAG interested in cooperating with any French LAG, please write to the following email address: and find out more information on the webpage of the French Rural Network.
The Association for Environment and Development – ADEMED, Romania supports three villages in reviving traditional community celebrations in the forest.
The Administration of National Cultural Fund, Romania, supports a five-month project by ADEMED to promote folkloric theater in Bosorod, Pietriceaua and Pesac, three settlements in the Carpathian Mountains. Between June and July 2021, cartoonists, actors, teachers and residents team up to translate three local legends into comics and then perform them in the forest.
The villages seed to form a network promoting the forest's cultural role and raising awareness of their role as cultural and natural local assets, promoting their conservation.
Agrofilm is a unique festival organized by a research institution in cooperation with film professionals. The presentation of the results of the EIP AGRI working groups is welcome and contributes to the dissemination and use of good solutions.
This festival welcomes films on agriculture and food, which present examples of good practice, cooperation between farmers and researchers and innovative solutions that are the basis for effective implementation of the new policies such as Green Deal, Organic Action Plans, Farm to Fork Strategy, Bioediversity Strategy. Submit your film by 31 July 2021 using this form to
CoLabora, a European cooperation project promoting coworking in rural areas, has released the toolkit 'Rural Coworking Guide - Tips for the successful creation of a rural coworking space'. The toolkit is available for free download.
Coworking spaces can contribute to rural areas’ development. This new model of places designed for professionals offers them an opportunity to efficiently work where they choose to live, without the need to move away from their rural environment.
CoLabora is a transnational LEADER cooperation project gathering seven LAGs from Spain, France, Germany, Latvia and Wales.
The Agricultural Outlook 2021-2030 is a collaborative effort of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations.
It brings together the commodity, policy and country expertise of both organisations as well as input from collaborating member countries to provide an annual assessment of the prospects for the coming decade of national, regional and global agricultural commodity markets. The publication consists of 11 Chapters; Chapter 1 covers agricultural and food markets; Chapter 2 provides regional outlooks and the remaining chapters are dedicated to individual commodities.
The latest edition of the EU Rural Review looks at the future of rural areas in digital, environmental and social terms, as well as in terms of resilience.
This edition of the EU Rural Review includes articles by experts from different fields and countries who offer distinctive visions for the future of Europe’s rural areas, based on the outcomes of the ENRD work on the Long Term Rural Vision and of Rural Vision Week.
This report by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) summarises the results of a foresight study on the future of EU rural areas 2040.
A set of four scenarios were developed in a participatory process with the European Network for Rural Development (ENRD) Thematic Group on the Long Term Rural Vision between September and December 2020. The scenarios describe possible alternative futures for rural areas in the EU, ranging from pronounced depopulation and land use specialisation to diversified and expanding rural areas. The exercise contributes to the discussions and the development of the long-term vision for EU rural areas put forward by the European Commission in 2021.
Rural areas are often stereotyped. ‘Agroinfluencers’ help to break down these prejudices by sharing their daily life in rural areas and their work in agriculture on social media.
This is the example of Pilar Pascual, an 18-year-old farmer and agricultural engineering student from Spain. She and her family were living in Shanghai (China) before they decided to move to a rural area in Spain to invest in their own family pistachio plantation. Pilar is passionate about her business and the place she lives in. You can follow her on Instagram and TikTok (@agripilar) sharing her knowledge about agriculture, pistachio farming, and her rural life.
Read more about young agro-influencers and their role for the future of the EU's rural areas in Rural Connections 2-2021.
The highlights report of the 4th Meeting of the ENRD Thematic Group on European Green Deal and rural areas (20 May 2021) is now available!
This online event focused on local and territorial environment and climate initiatives in promoting the green transition. These play an important role in generating collective action and local ownership, and provide an effective way to promote the uptake of environmental schemes among rural actors.
It was the fourth and concluding meeting for this Thematic Group. Previous reports and factsheets are available in the ENRD Thematic Group on European Green Deal and rural areas page on this website.
