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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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Animating LEADER local development action in rural Austria
LEADER Local Action Groups in Austria benefit from strong cooperation at national level, which is animated through coordinated actions by the country’s National Network and LEADER Forum.
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Inspirational idea: showcasing the added value of ecosystem services of farming in mountain areas
‘Value-added mountain farming’ is an Operational Group in Austria developing business models based on ecosystem services to improve the socio-economic and environmental resilience of mountain areas and their communities.
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Assessing the effectiveness and efficiency of CAP income support instruments
The guidelines on how to assess CAP income support instruments offer a comprehensive evaluation framework, including judgment criteria and technical guidance for quantitative analyses.
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Evaluation of the promotion of investments in the processing and marketing of agricultural products
The evaluation offers an overview of the challenges and strengths in the agricultural and food sector in North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany, specifically on competitiveness.
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Contribution of the 2014-2022 RDP in Lower Saxony and Bremen on gender equality
This evaluation report focuses on the contribution of the 2014-2022 Rural Development Programme in Lower Saxony and Bremen to the equality between women and men.