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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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Transnational cooperation links continents through LEADER
Many innovative uses of LEADER support have evolved in Member States, including using transnational cooperation (TNC) funding for macro-level actions linking continents.
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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.
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Report - EU CAP Network cross-visit ‘Organic farming supply and value chain optimisation’
This report shares successful practices, opportunities and tools identified during the EU CAP Network ‘Organic farming supply and value chain optimisation’ cross-visit.
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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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BONITA, new resistant club apple variety in Slovenia - from production to marketing
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