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.

Latest news

light bulbs illustration on a farm landscape
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
Group of people in a field
07 Feb 2025

EU CAP Network Cross-visits 2025 - call for participating EIP-AGRI Operational Groups

Three EU CAP Network Cross-visits, each lasting 1.5 days, will take place in the week of 5 May 2025.

  • Innovation, knowledge exchange & EIP-AGRI
fruits at the market
20 Jan 2025

Much to digest from the 4th agri-food Forum

Many EU CAP Network activities are bringing agri-food chain stakeholders together, creating opportunities for dialogue and better use of CAP tools to improve the way we produce and consume food.

  • CAP Implementation

Upcoming events

Cross-visit

EU CAP Network cross-visits 2025

  • Innovation, knowledge exchange & EIP-AGRI
Calendar
Calendar
Cross-visit

Cross-visit ‘Honeybees and other pollinators’

  • Innovation, knowledge exchange & EIP-AGRI
Calendar

Latest publications

Highlights report - Valuing Farmers’ Wider Contributions to Society
Event Reports |

Highlights report - 1st meeting of the Thematic Group on Valuing Farmers’ Wider Contributions to Society

Participants reflected on existing narratives surrounding farming and explored ways to raise awareness and improve recognition of farmers’ multiple roles in society.

  • CAP Implementation
CAP Evaluation News - April 2025
Newsletters |

CAP Evaluation News - April 2025

Assessing results-based interventions: lessons learned and challenges ahead

  • Evaluation
Press article - From local innovations to global markets in the forestry bioeconomy
Press Articles |

Bridging local solutions and market potential in the forestry bioeconomy

BioRural and MainstreamBIO advance the forestry bioeconomy

  • Innovation, knowledge exchange & EIP-AGRI

Latest projects

Research and innovation | Ongoing

Waste4Soil -Turning food waste into sustainable soil improvers for better soil health and improved food systems

  • Innovation, knowledge exchange & EIP-AGRI
EIP-AGRI Operational Group | Ongoing

GO BIOFUN. VIRUS-FREE FUNCTIONAL BIODIVERSITY IN PROTECTED CROPS

  • Innovation, knowledge exchange & EIP-AGRI
EIP-AGRI Operational Group | Ongoing

SAMM_IRO: Smart Monitoring Modules for Irrigation & Phitosanitary Management in Olive Growing

  • Innovation, knowledge exchange & EIP-AGRI

Latest good practice

Five different professional cleaning equipment machines
Another automated weeding machine prototype in a flat Dutch farm field
Project | 11 Apr 2025

New Dutch agri-technology for automated weeding

  • CAP Implementation