Projects & Practice

A young farmer undertook voluntary agri-environmental commitments to ensure that his land provides a sufficient habitat for overwintering migratory birds and other plants and animals.

Raising awareness about insect conservation in Austria.

Developing and testing practical solutions to close material cycles in farms through better use of agricultural residues.
 

Using the Agri-environment-climate Measure to support the preservation of the Hungarian Coldblood horse breed.

Preserving forest genetic resources to increase the resilience of forests against the impacts of climate change.

Offering support to maintain and possibly increase populations of specific rare breeds under the Rural Development Programme 2014-2020 of Ireland.
 

The North Connemara Locally Led Agri-Environmental Scheme is a local agricultural scheme to incentivise farmers to incorporate agricultural animals in improving the ecology of their land. 

Operation M10.1.19 focuses on result-oriented and focused Rural Development Programme (RDP) interventions to stabilise endangered habitats, species and plants and thus reverse the decline of biodiversity in Austria’s agricultural regions.
 

Supporting this environmentally sound and biodiversity-promoting management action is one of the most successful operations of the Austrian Agri-Environmental-Climate Scheme. 
 

A cooperative of apple producers set up a joint effort among its members to control the codling moth, a major pest, by means of sexual confusion.