Projects & Practice

A number of arable farms formed a consortium to explore the possibility of growing oleaginous crops and adding value to the local production.

In favour of biodiversity, a municipality decided to remove spruce trees growing on municipal soil and to rehabilitate broadleaved trees that were originally growing in these areas.

Cooperation on a pilot project that could provide a more viable and sustainable alternative to manage river banks.

The project addressed the needs of local winegrowers and winemakers in the municipality of Slovenska Bistrica to add value to their work and improve their market position.

A poultry farm used RDP support to modernise its facilities and produce high quality free range eggs.

Financed by the Romanian rural development programme, a small patisserie and confectionary workshop upscaled its business by constructing a new building to increase its production capacity and offer utility areas to customers.

An association working in a remote village in rural Latvia, used RDP support to set up a wood and glass workshop thus creating new employment and income opportunities for the local people.

A forest association promoting forest environmental education used RDP support to  create a series of high quality educational material in order to attract the interest of children and their families.

An association used RDP support to redevelop the inadequate building of an old community centre into a multiple service centre covering both cultural and information needs of the local residents.

A company that produces wine and olive oil developed a strategy to improve its water use efficiency and receives AECM support for its water-saving agricultural good practices.