Latest news
Breaking new ground: Rewriting the story of Europe’s farmers
A recent EU CAP Network’s Thematic Group looked at how to make farmers’ wider contributions to society better seen and valued by the wider public.
- CAP Implementation
Planting roots - Generational renewal and LEADER
Generational renewal in agriculture and rural life has become one of the EU’s key challenges. LEADER is quietly helping to ensure the next generation has both the right and the reasons to stay.
- CAP Implementation
Good Practice Workshop on ‘Measuring what matters – Approaches to netting out CAP impacts’
Register to join us in Bucharest, Romania, on 16–17 October 2025 for the 11th CAP Good Practice Workshop.
- Evaluation
Upcoming events
1st meeting of the Thematic Group on the CAP's Role in Supporting Sustainable and Competitive Livestock Systems
- CAP Implementation
2nd meeting of the Thematic Group on the CAP's Role in Supporting Sustainable and Competitive Livestock Systems
- CAP Implementation
IAHA 2026 Conference "Organic Animal Husbandry: A role model for the future of livestock?"
- Innovation, knowledge exchange & EIP-AGRI
Latest publications
Impact of agricultural investment on competitiveness (2021)
The evaluation analyses the impact of agricultural investments on competitiveness in Hungary’s 2014-2022 Rural Development Programme (RDP), using quantitative and qualitative methods to assess outcomes and inform future policy
- Evaluation
Impact and involvement of food processing on producers in the food chain
The evaluation 'Development impact of food processing involvement of producers in the food chain (LIP)' was commissioned by the Hungarian Ministry of Agriculture and related to the 2014-2020 Rural Development Programme (RDP).
- Evaluation
Evaluation report of Euskadi RDP Measure 16 (cooperation)
The study 'Assessment report of Measure 16 (cooperation) of 2015-2020' relates to the 2014-2020 Rural Development Programme (RDP) of the Basque Country.
- Evaluation
Latest projects
TransformDairyNet (TDN) aims to promote systems where calves stay with their mothers for months, rather than being separated shortly after birth, as is common in traditional dairy farming. Cow-calf contact (CCC) has the potential to improve animal welfare
- Innovation, knowledge exchange & EIP-AGRI
Working together on a sustainable value chain for Brabant Regional Goods
- Innovation, knowledge exchange & EIP-AGRI
Companion plants for potatoes for consumption
- Innovation, knowledge exchange & EIP-AGRI
Latest good practice
Forest monitoring for sustainable management
- Innovation, knowledge exchange & EIP-AGRI
Ultrasonic technology to protect crops from wild animals
- Innovation, knowledge exchange & EIP-AGRI
Controlling wireworms in potato production
- Innovation, knowledge exchange & EIP-AGRI