Projects & Practice

Implementing organic agriculture in Sardinia

Keywords:: Added value, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Competitiveness, Environmental sustainability, Family farming, GHG & ammonia emissions, Organic farming
Countries:: Italy

A Sardinian agricultural company applied for RDP support in order to maintain its organic agriculture production systems.

Improving soil quality by using sustainable practices

Keywords:: Agriculture, Biodiversity, Environmental sustainability, 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.

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.

Potplant project

Keywords:: Agriculture, Cooperation, Producer groups
Countries:: Italy

Rural businesses and native flora receive boost from demand-led research project

Restoring and adding value to an abandoned cork plantation

Keywords:: Bioeconomy, Farm restructuring/modernisation, Forestry, Rural SMEs
Countries:: Italy

A cork producing business confronted high production costs due to increasing cost of raw materials. To tackle this the company used EAFRD support to restore its own forest and improve its productivity.

Briquette production at ECODOMANI

Keywords:: Farm restructuring/modernisation, Renewable energy, Rural SMEs
Countries:: Romania

Setting up a briquette production plant that uses wood dust and energetic willow, shows how a region's natural resources can be used for energy production in an environmentally friendly way.