Projects & Practice

Genetic resources in animal husbandry: important actions for the local community and the environment to promote traditional, extensive livestock farming and the protection of biodiversity.

Offering support to maintain and possibly increase populations of specific rare breeds under the Rural Development Programme 2014-2020 of Ireland.
 

An eco-farm implementing agri-environment-climate measures aims to foster ecosystem services and climate adaptation on-farm as well as promote wider uptake throughout the farming community.
 

A cooperative of apple producers set up a joint effort among its members to control the codling moth, a major pest, by means of sexual confusion.

An example of a large-scale previously state owned farm, which now successfully combines economic sustainability and the provision of public goods.

Using RDP support to turn a farm into a nature reserve; contributing to tackling biodiversity loss.

Granting a premium to support viticulture on steep slopes and terraced vineyards as a high-quality farming practice