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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Savvas Maliotis, evaluator in Cyprus
12 Mar 2026

Lessons learned from a pilot evaluation of green architecture in Cyprus

Since Cyprus falls within a region strongly affected by climate change, the Cypriot Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and the Environment, launched an early evaluation on the green architecture of the CAP Strategic Plan to support administrators and beneficiaries in understanding the concept of green architecture, and the interplay among interventions.

  • Evaluation
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05 Feb 2026

Apply for three cross-visits for Operational Groups

A call for applications to host and participate in EU CAP Network cross-visits is open until 20 February 2026. The cross-visits cover plant genetic resources, robotics and AI, and production of protein crops.

  • Innovation, knowledge exchange & EIP-AGRI
The project 'Changing roles' receiving the award on stage at the ARIA ceremony
12 Dec 2025

Rural women shaping the future: ARIA 2025 Gender Equality awards

The special awards help foster a new mindset, whereby any project is analysed in terms of how much it promotes gender equality – and vice versa, how equality can be embedded in any CAP-funded project.

  • CAP Implementation

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GRANULAR Bootcamp

  • CAP Implementation
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CBE JU Stakeholder Forum

  • Innovation, knowledge exchange & EIP-AGRI
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Latest publications

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Event Reports |

1st Thematic Group meeting on the CAP's Role in Supporting Sustainable and Competitive Livestock Systems

The Thematic Group (TG) meeting provided an initial opportunity to discuss pathways to make livestock systems more sustainable while remaining competitive.

  • CAP Implementation
Evaluation of the green architecture of the CAP Strategic Plans
Guidelines and tools |

Evaluation of the green architecture of the CAP Strategic Plans

The guidelines for assessing the green architecture of CAP Strategic Plans emphasise evaluating the combined effects and contradictions across the various instruments designed to address the CAP's environmental and climate objectives.

  • Evaluation
Factsheet - Advice clinics help Irish farmers make better use of EU funds for income support
Case Studies |

EU funds advice clinics – Ireland

Irish farms benefit from specialised government-led advisory clinics helping ‘hard to reach’ farmers apply for EU-funded income support.

  • CAP Implementation

Latest projects

EIP-AGRI Operational Group

DRAWU

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

KARTOZIK

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

GROW (Grassland maintenance with Robot Operated laser Weeding)

  • Innovation, knowledge exchange & EIP-AGRI

Latest good practice

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Technical documents about dried fruit production
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