Projects & Practice

Martina Tomšíčková’s goat farm – Processing organic goat milk

Keywords:: Diversification, Family farming, Farm restructuring/modernisation, Organic farming, Women, Young farmers
Countries:: Czech Republic

CAP funds in Czechia support organic family farm diversification into goat cheese.

Zacharias Symeou Sheep Farm

Keywords:: Animal husbandry, Farm restructuring/modernisation, Job creation, Organic farming, Product quality, Renewable energy
Countries:: Cyprus

A family farm used investment support to set up a state-of-the-art sheep farm for the production of high-quality sheep milk.

Setting up a hail protection system on a cherry orchard

Keywords:: Agriculture, Climate change adaptation, Producer groups, Product quality, Risk management
Countries:: Italy

Setting up an anti-hail system over a newly planted orchard of cherry trees, in order to mitigate the impact of climate change over agricultural production.

TULARU’ – Energy, Food and cultures

Keywords:: Agriculture, Culture, Job creation, Local food, Organic farming, Short supply chains & local markets, Young farmers
Countries:: Italy

Tularù is an organic and multi-functional closed-cycle farm born that began life as a centre for sustainable production. It offers an alternative approach to solving current environmental, social and economic issues for farms.

Repairing damage caused by extreme weather conditions on an agricultural business

Keywords:: Agriculture, Climate change adaptation, Risk management
Countries:: Italy

An agricultural business affected by extreme weather conditions used RDP support to repair the damage to its infrastructure and enable it to operate as normal.

Investing on intensive and yet sustainable farming

Keywords:: Bioeconomy, Farm restructuring/modernisation, GHG & ammonia emissions, Renewable energy
Countries:: Italy

A family farm invested in a biogas plant to produce renewable energy while also purchasing a new tomato harvester to improve the farm’s overall income.

Upgrading a forestry company’s machinery in order to produce biomass in Czech Republic

Keywords:: Climate change adaptation, Forestry, Renewable energy, Renewables
Countries:: Czech Republic

A company managing publicly-owned forests purchased new machinery to turn forest residues and logging waste into valuable biomass fuel.

Conservation of natural heritage - Biodiversity and wood fuel

Keywords:: Biodiversity, Bioeconomy, Climate change adaptation, Protected areas, Renewable energy
Countries:: Germany

Testing the transferability of landscape management to other Natura 2000 sites.