Projects & Practice

Refurbishment of the family-owned dairy processing plant in Romania

Keywords:: Competitiveness, Farm restructuring/modernisation, Job creation, Product quality, Rural business
Countries:: Romania

CAP funds were used by a family-owned dairy processing plant to modernise its production facilities and introduce a merchandise management software.

Setting-up of wooden toy manufacturing workshop in rural Romania

Keywords:: Entrepreneurship, Job creation, Product quality, Rural business
Countries:: Romania

EAFRD support enabled a pair of entrepreneurs to harness their experience to establish a wooden toy manufacturing business, stimulating diversified economic activity and creating jobs in a rural area.

Cooperation for local market development in Dobrogea region

Keywords:: Competitiveness, Cooperation, Information & promotion activities, Local food, Market development, Product quality, Short supply chains & local markets
Countries:: Romania

CAP support enabled three partners in a short supply chain to build local demand for their traditional product range through strategic business investments and a wide-ranging promotional campaign.

Cooperation for the development of a fresh fruit short supply chain

Keywords:: Agriculture, Cooperation, Food & Drink, LEADER/CLLD, Local food, Market development, Short supply chains & local markets
Countries:: Romania

Using LEADER funding and LAG guidance, four fruit growers worked in partnership with a school and an agritourism guesthouse to establish a short supply chain.

Setting up a short supply chain for traditional food products in Brasov County

Keywords:: Agriculture, Cooperation, Information & promotion activities, Market development, Producer groups, Product quality, Short supply chains & local markets
Countries:: Romania

CAP funding enables Romanian farmers to establish successful short supply chain for quality food.

“Sweet Resistants” value chain for innovation and promotion in the apple and strawberry sector

Keywords:: Agriculture, Competitiveness, Cooperation, Innovation, Market development, Producer groups, Short supply chains & local markets
Countries:: Italy

An EIP operation group project to test and propagate new, cost-effective and environmentally friendly strawberry and apple varieties in Emilia-Romagna.

Flora Aromatica Santaluce testing a model for the promotion of a territory

Keywords:: Agriculture, Food & Drink, Local food, Short supply chains & local markets
Countries:: Italy

A cooperation project contributed to the development of a local value chain and created new diversified income opportunities in agriculture and agritourism.

A new value-chain for the promotion of organic production from arable crops in the Marche region of Italy

Keywords:: Agriculture, Cooperation, Farm restructuring/modernisation, Organic farming, Product quality, Short supply chains & local markets, Stakeholder involvement
Countries:: Italy

Italian farmers join forces in new organics value chain.

KLIMIS - BBQ briquettes from olive stones

Keywords:: Added value, Agriculture, Bioeconomy, Competitiveness, Innovation, Renewables
Countries:: Greece

A family-owned business created multiple revenue streams by creating a new product from an olive stone by-product, demonstrating sustainable economic development and environmental protection.

Restoration of four traditional houses on Nisyros island

Keywords:: Entrepreneurship, Job creation, Tourism
Countries:: Greece

Rural Development Programme (RDP) support contributed to the revitalisation of an almost abandoned village in the small Aegean island of Nisyros.