Sustainability
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Sustainability

The Common Agricultural Policy combines social, economic and environmental approaches to help achieve sustainable farming and forestry systems and vibrant rural areas in the EU.

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19 Jun 2025

LEADER for community resilience and security

Speaking with LEADER stakeholders in five countries bordering the Russian Federation, we learnt about LEADER ambitions, its current implementation and its role for community resilience and security.

  • CAP Implementation
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18 Jun 2025

Estimating the climate change mitigation potential of the EU’s CAP Strategic Plans

The study, coordinated by the European Evaluation Helpdesk for the CAP, provides a meaningful first step in evaluating how the agricultural sector can support the EU’s climate ambitions.

  • Evaluation
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16 Apr 2025

Insights from our current Thematic Groups

Narratives on farmers' wider contribution to society and means to simplify the implementation of the CAP are on the agenda of the current EU CAP Network’s Thematic Groups.

  • CAP Implementation

Upcoming events

Conference

Festival of Stewardship 2025

  • Innovation, knowledge exchange & EIP-AGRI
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Conference

Women Leading Rural Innovation: From Vision to Action

  • CAP Implementation
  • Innovation, knowledge exchange & EIP-AGRI
  • Evaluation
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Conference

Mediterranean Forest Week

  • Innovation, knowledge exchange & EIP-AGRI
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Latest publications

Press article - Smart spraying for sustainable farming
Press Articles |

Smart spraying for sustainable farming

Greek Operational Group DacoTech successfully fights the olive fruit fly with innovative technologies.

  • Innovation, knowledge exchange & EIP-AGRI
Briefing - Addressing the economic challenges faced by farm businesses
Briefings |

Addressing the economic challenges faced by farm businesses

This compendium presents possible solutions to the economic challenges faced by farm businesses, identified by the members of our Thematic Group on Economic Vulnerability of Farming.

  • CAP Implementation
Press asrticle - Financial compensation for foresters to keep their soil healthy
Press Articles |

Financial compensation for foresters to keep their soil healthy

Swedish Operational Group turns forest residues into a soil and climate solution.

  • Innovation, knowledge exchange & EIP-AGRI

Latest projects

EIP-AGRI Operational Group

Innovative phosphorus management in the pig farm from feeding to the field - Pig

  • Innovation, knowledge exchange & EIP-AGRI

Latest good practice

A group of people inspecting a patch of catch crops
A ladybug climbing on a rosemary plant
Project | 10 Jul 2025

Ruralfruit-AgroEco

  • CAP Implementation
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