Biodiversity

Good Practice - Project | 23 Juni 2020

Improving the accessibility for visitors to a restored nature reserve

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

Good Practice - Project | 22 Juni 2020

North Connemara Locally Led Agri-Environmental Scheme (NCLLAES)

The North Connemara Locally Led Agri-Environmental Scheme is a local agricultural scheme to incentivise farmers to incorporate agricultural animals in improving the ecology of their land. 

Good Practice - Project | 22 Juni 2020

Flowering meadows at Endrup

Promoting extensive grazing in a communal area to enhance biodiversity in and around a Natura 2000 designated area.

Good Practice - Project | 02 Juni 2020

The Černelič Biodynamic Farm

Organic and biodynamic farms cooperate to jointly acquire conservation tillage equipment (subsoilers and no till seeding machine) to enhance soil quality, reduce pollution and maximise their soil’s capacity to act as a carbon sink

Good Practice - Project | 02 Juni 2020

Introducing and testing biological pest control techniques in the wine-producing sector in Tuscany

Offering a coordinated multi-stakeholder approach in terms of training, technology transfer and decision making to finding alternative approaches to pest management and reducing pesticide use in the wine-producing sector of Tuscany.  

Good Practice - Project | 02 Juni 2020

GO SETOS - Multifunctional borders for sustainable landscape and agriculture

An EIP-AGRI Operational Group working together to increase the implementation of multifunctional hedgerows that offer environmental benefits as well as climate mitigation and adaptation.  

Good Practice - Project | 02 Juni 2020

Agri-environment business focused on adaptation to climate change (Ekofarma Petra Marada)

An eco-farm implementing agri-environment-climate measures aims to foster ecosystem services and climate adaptation on-farm as well as promote wider uptake throughout the farming community.  

Good Practice - Project | 31 März 2020

Nature conservation in the Austrian Rural Development Programme

Operation M10.1.19 focuses on result-oriented and focused Rural Development Programme (RDP) interventions to stabilise endangered habitats, species and plants and thus reverse the decline of biodiversity in Austria’s agricultural regions.  

Good Practice - Project | 31 März 2020

Organic farming in Austria

The Organic farming measure in the Austrian Rural Development Programme (RDP) helps preserve and enhance biodiversity; establish nutrient cycles on farms and reduce input, while also increasing soil fertility.  

Good Practice - Project | 30 März 2020

Re-naturalisation of the “Mandlinger Moor”

Using the Rural Development Programme (RDP) to support the re-establishment of a moor by restoring its original hydrology and the propagation of the natural moor vegetation.