Projects & Practice

Support for setting up young farmers and adding value to agricultural products in processing enabled a young entrepreneur to set up her own family business on producing artisanal dairy products.
 

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.
 

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.
 

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.

Modernisation and development of a small beekeeping farm in order to increase its profitability and its resilience to weather-associated risks.

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

A family farm decided to diversify and supplement its income by investing in agri-tourism.