Projects & Practice

CAP cooperation project pioneers the potential for re-using agricultural plastic waste in Spain.

Rural Development Programme (RDP) support was used for helping to prevent forest fires in a former military testing area in Brandenburg, Germany, that is heavily contaminated with explosive material. 

Knowledge exchange network established to foster multi-actor collaboration and sharing around organic agriculture.
 

An example of an initiative promoting energy efficiency that addresses climate change through targeted actions at grassroots level.

‘Nos Oignons’ is an association that supported the preparation and implementation of three RDP funded projects that promote social farming in Wallonia.

The project has enabled the living-lab, Josenea which is focused on organic farming, to collect bio-waste from neighbours and transform it into compost to fertilise their crops, with environmental, economic and social benefits.
 

Supporting vulnerable people and facilitating their re-integration into society through small volunteer jobs on local farms.

A dairy farm in Wallonia invested in renewable energy production from manure and produced milk using a more environmental friendly process.

Restoring a wetland ecosystem and creating an observation area, for ecological, hydrological, educational and touristic purposes.

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