Rural women – inspiration from the EIP-AGRI network

From inspirational initiatives, Operational Groups, Horizon projects, videos, articles and more, take a look here for examples from the EIP-AGRI network of rural women who are at the forefront of agricultural innovation, including projects and initiatives empowering rural women.

Inspirational Ideas

• Inspirational ideas: Improving the quality and productivity of fig trees (Portugal)
• Inspirational ideas: Estonian farmer turns grassland grazing into climate solution (Estonia)
• Inspirational ideas: European innovation prize for women farmers (Ireland)
• Inspirational ideas: A planning tool for reindeer husbandry (Sweden)
• Inspirational ideas: Combatting weeds with non-chemical alternatives (Portugal)
• Inspirational ideas: Optimising irrigation in Spanish greenhouses (Spain)
• Inspirational ideas: Working on resilient dairy farming (Germany)

Videos

• AGRI challenge: biodiversity - 14 September 2022
• AGRI Challenge: Non-chemical weed management in arable cropping systems - 10 February 2020
• AGRI challenge: increasing biodiversity in agricultural landscapes - 4 November 2019

Operational Groups

• GoFigoProdução - To improve the quality and productivity of the fig trees by modernizing the techniques used and the efficient use of the soil – (Portugal)
• Transfer, innovation and new technologies for a more efficient, profitable, sustainable and socially integrated cereal crop in Spain, including ‘Better incorporation of young people and women into rural employment’ (Spain)
• Digitizing the value chain of organic beekeeping products (Bulgaria)
• RegGAE: Natural regulations on field crops with agroecological practices- (French)
• Wood2Biogas (Finland)

You can also take a look at the 7th edition of the Agrinnovation magazine, chapter called “With heart and soil EIP-AGRI soilmates share their views on soil health” – many of the ‘soilmates’ are women. 

More info:

• Women in the new CAP