Projects & Practice

EAFRD support enabled a pair of entrepreneurs to harness their experience to establish a wooden toy manufacturing business, stimulating diversified economic activity and creating jobs in a rural area.

A partnership project to develop an autonomous apiary monitoring system.

An EIP Operational Group worked on the reintroduction of ancient wheat species in the context of current practices applied at farm level.

This project combined state-of-the-art sensoring techniques and models with a participatory monitoring process with farmers and water authorities to create a common understanding of the main local challenges and possible solutions to enhance water quality. In addition, the process empowered individual farmers to become equal partners with water authorities as they gained knowledge and access to data. Problems with water management differ between regions, but the process of jointly collecting, learning from and acting on data can be applied across regions.
 

A company offering agricultural services to farmers used RDP support to acquire a new combine harvester and a nitrogen testing equipment which regulates the amount of fertiliser applied across the entire crop. 

Setting up collaborative water system measures and a governance approach to increase self-sufficiency of freshwater availability for agriculture.

Using biomass residues to produce a fertiliser, which is then used to grow trees, and will, over time, improve soil quality, has led to significant financial savings for nature conservation organisations and tree nurseries.
 

Turning a subsistence family farm into a dynamic agri-business through modernization and adoption of affordable new equipment.

A farm employing people with special needs set up a process line and an experimental kitchen, where non-commercial agricultural produce can be turned into new products.

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