Projects & Practice

CAP funds help support long-term sustainability of transhumance shepherding in Spain.

CAP cooperation project pioneers the potential for re-using agricultural plastic waste in Spain.

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.

Support from the Swedish Rural Development Programme helped improve accessibility for visitors in a restored municipal nature reserve.

An EIP-AGRI Operational Group working together to increase the implementation of multifunctional hedgerows that offer environmental benefits as well as climate mitigation and adaptation.
 

Planting new woodland under a scheme in a partnership between Forestry services, a local authority and the local community.

The project has enabled the living-lab, Josenea which is focused on organic farming, to collect bio-waste from neighbours and transform it into compost to fertilise their crops, with environmental, economic and social benefits.
 

A project that demonstrates how agri-environment support can significantly help the protection of the environment while also increasing the profitability of a farm.

EAFRD funding helped expand and develop a social enterprise in rural Scotland. A new training centre is built, a visitor centre expanded and more jobs for adults with special needs created.

A local association used EAFRD support to get broadband coverage in a rural area which was previously lacking any access to internet or telephone connection.