Projects & Practice

Studiecirklar om diken – ‘Study circles’ on ditch management

Keywords:: Agriculture, Climate change adaptation, Education & lifelong learning, Knowledge transfer, Soil management
Countries:: Sweden

A new participatory approach for increasing landowners’ knowledge on how to manage drainage ditches that play a key role in Swedish agriculture.

Improving the accessibility for visitors to a restored nature reserve

Keywords:: Biodiversity, Environmental protection, Protected areas, Tourism, Water management
Countries:: Sweden

Support from the Swedish Rural Development Programme helped improve accessibility for visitors in a restored municipal nature reserve.

Biomass in the Haarloseveld and Olden Eibergen - Organic food for thought

Keywords:: Agriculture, Environmental protection, Environmental sustainability, Soil management
Countries:: The Netherlands

Incorporating locally available biomass into the soil, as a mean to increase its content in organic matter in the long term.

Restoring the habitats of the Aquatic Warbler

Keywords:: Biodiversity, Environmental protection, Job creation, Protected areas
Countries:: Lithuania

Maintaining natural and semi-natural meadows and wetlands to ensure suitable nesting conditions for an endangered bird species: the Aquatic Warbler.

Collective approaches to results-based agri-environment schemes in the Netherlands

Keywords:: Agriculture, Cooperation, Environmental protection, Nature conservation
Countries:: The Netherlands

Agri-environment cooperatives in the Netherlands use results-based schemes to distribute payments to farmers according to on-farm nature conservation results.