Projects & Practice

Littles Ltd. – Setting up a new production line

Keywords:: Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship, Farm restructuring/modernisation, Job creation, Product quality, Rural business, Sustainability
Countries:: United Kingdom

A family business, trading high quality instant coffee, used EAFRD support to expand its business by installing a new more efficient production line.

Investing in new forestry machinery

Keywords:: Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship, Forestry, Rural business, Rural SMEs
Countries:: Slovenia

A small family forestry business used RDP support to acquire new machinery that would enable it to respond to the increasing demand for forest services.

Waasland Region – Promoting renewable energy in cities and the countryside

Keywords:: Climate change adaptation, Cooperation, Energy efficiency, Information & promotion activities
Countries:: Belgium

An example of an initiative promoting energy efficiency that addresses climate change through targeted actions at grassroots level.

Positive Agritude - a rural network for the social rehabilitation of vulnerable people

Keywords:: Agriculture, Cooperation, Job creation, LEADER/CLLD, Rural services
Countries:: Belgium

Supporting vulnerable people and facilitating their re-integration into society through small volunteer jobs on local farms.

Diversifying a farm into tourism and heating production using biomass from wood

Keywords:: Diversification, Family farming, Renewable energy, Tourism
Countries:: Slovenia

A farm used RDP support to set up a micro district heating system to produce heating from wood biomass and at the same time expand its leisure and tourism facilities.