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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Group picture TG Just Transition
18 Sep 2026

Achieving a Just Transition in the agri-food systems

Discover insights and resources from the Thematic Group on the Just Transition, agri-food systems and the CAP.

  • CAP Implementation
Participants in the DROM Congress of LAGs from the Outermost Regions, group picture outdoors
14 Sep 2026

How Europe's outermost regions are building a common LEADER community

A recent cooperation project has highlighted specific aspects of LEADER in the EU's outermost regions, where local development strategies reflect a variety of territorial priorities.

  • CAP Implementation
People stand in front of a community café in the frame of the LEADER project Community Connections, by Louth Local Development, Ireland
14 Sep 2026

Bouncing forward: how Local Action Groups support social resilience

Local Action Groups can support rural resilience by rapidly and effectively activating local resources and fostering systemic cooperation. These real-life stories show the way.

  • CAP Implementation

Upcoming events

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Subgroup on Innovation and Knowledge Exchange (SoIKE) - 13th meeting

  • Innovation, knowledge exchange & EIP-AGRI
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EU Agri-Hackathon

  • CAP Implementation
  • Innovation, knowledge exchange & EIP-AGRI
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Latest publications

Amazing moment ,Monarch Butterfly, pupae and cocoons are suspended. Concept transformation of Butterfly
Policy Insights |

Just Transition in agri-food: more voices, a fairer change

What does a Just Transition mean in practice for farmers, rural communities, and consumers? Insights from policy and experience highlight the importance of trust and dialogue.

  • CAP Implementation
Effects of EIP support: interim report for Thuringia, Germany, 2014-2022 RDP
CAP Evaluation Insights |

Effects of EIP support: interim report for Thuringia, Germany, 2014-2022 RDP

This interim report of Thuringia, Germany, reviews the first nine completed EIP-AGRI Operational Group projects under the 2014-2022 RDP

  • Evaluation
Achieving a Just Transition in the Agri-Food System: actions required
Factsheets |

Achieving a Just Transition in the Agri-Food System: actions required

An overview of the main actions identified to facilitate a just transition in the agri-food sector and how policy and governance arrangements need to evolve to support these actions.

  • CAP Implementation

Latest projects

EIP-AGRI Operational Group | Completed

Improvement of local horticultural crops and implementation of news systems to use surpluses

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

GUISANTEX: Improvement of the integrated production system and study of the commercial use of Xermade peas

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

EXTRAPASTO: Strategies for the competitiveness and sustainability of the pastors of Galicia

  • Innovation, knowledge exchange & EIP-AGRI

Latest good practice

Amparo Martínez Sarrión at her orchard of young citrus trees
Project | 17 Sep 2026

Proyecto Origen – Litha, Amparo's story

  • CAP Implementation
Printouts and promotional material at Espazo a Maceta
Project | 17 Sep 2026

Espazo A Maceta - Rural coworking and cultural hub

  • CAP Implementation
Logo El Capriolo agrotourism
Project | 17 Sep 2026

El Capriolo Agrotourism

  • CAP Implementation