Long-term Vision for Rural Areas
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Long-term Vision for Rural Areas

A European Commission initiative to develop a common European vision for 2040 with actions towards stronger, connected, resilient and prosperous rural areas and communities.

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26 Jun 2024

LEADER creates jobs in Poland from healthy convenience food

Local Action Group support for a Polish businesswoman has helped her to create new jobs by expanding her company’s supply of healthy convenience food that promotes better nutrition.

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26 Jun 2024

LEADER shows young people how they can develop rural Europe

Over 200 LEADER enthusiasts gathered in Finland to discuss ways to increase the power of young people in LEADER design and implementation, planting seeds for an international youth LEADER community.

Transnational cooperation experts meet in Romania
26 Jun 2024

LINC – Passing the flag!

LINC is a bottom-up led, self-starting and self-organised activity centred around LEADER. The 2024 edition took place in Romania, and the EU CAP Network was part of the programme.

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Policy Insights |

Policy Insights - Mental health policy for EU farmers

The understanding of some of the specific mental health care needs for farmers is increasing across the EU and clear advantages can derive from tailor-made policy approaches to protect the agricultural community’s well-being.

Cows grazing in a field near Fussen, Bavaria, Germany
Member State Evaluation |

Promotion of extensive grazing through contractual nature conservation

The study analyses funding data in order to better understand the implementation of the contractual nature conservation grazing measure in MEPL III (Rural Development Plan 2014-2020 Baden-Württemberg).

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Member State Evaluation |

Ongoing evaluation of the Saarland 2014-2020 Rural Development Programme

The evaluation reports on funding cases and public expenditure related to the 2014-2020 Rural Development Programme (RDP) for Saarland in Germany, which can therefore be considered a monitoring report.

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