An initiative to promote young farmers participation entrepreneurship and innovation
for sustainable rural areas
Projects & Practice

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

RDP support enabled a home-based business that sells quality vegetarian food products to increase its production capacity and reach out to an international market.

A young female farmer decided to renovated an old building on the family farm and offer accommodation for tourists.

A young female farmer in Italy received RDP support to convert to organic fruit production.

The project considered built heritage as a development lever for a rural area and relied upon the younger generation to raise awareness about it and to take care of it in the longer term.

An educational peer-to-peer programme for farmers that are engaged into innovative practices, facilitated through participative techniques and scientific expertise.

Information and promotion activities on direct marketing by the Slovak National Rural Network.

In the region of Veneto a network of actors cooperated to preserve biodiversity and to provide targeted support to farmers engaged in this task.

LEADER support was used to exploit the potential of using large quantities of waste wood from landscape management as a renewable energy source.