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Building an interactive AgriDemo-Hub community: enhancing farmer to farmer learning (AgriDemo-F2F)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Jun 30, 2019,

The overall aim of AgriDemo-F2F is to enhance peer-to-peer learning within the commercial farming community. The project will utilize the experience of different actors and involve practitioner partners throughout the project to deepen understanding of effective on farm demonstration activities (multi-actor approach). In a first step, we will conduct a geo-referenced inventory of open commercial f...
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FEAL: multifunctional Farming for the sustainability of European Agricultural Landscapes

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2019,

In the Euro area the unemployment rate increased from 6,4% in 2007 to 10,5% in November 2015. At the same time, ageing of farmers is also a crucial issue that need to be tackled: in 2007 only 6,3% of farmers were younger than 35. Alternative economic models for young farmers and rural entrepreneurs are therefore needed. Successful concepts of business in this field can lead to further and new empl...
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Enhancing COoperation amongst FARMing entrepreneurs

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

Agricultural markets & farming have changed considerably over the last decades across Europe and agricultural production faces more & more social & environmental challenges. Family farms are a central element of EU agricultural policy & the viability of many family farms is under threat. For example, only 37% of Irish farms are considered as economically viable; 31% are sustainable due to the pres...
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Fostering Sustainable Feedstock Production for Advanced Biofuels on underutilised land in Europe (FORBIO)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

Sustainable bioenergy production and use in the EU should be further developed in order to support Member States (MS) achieving 20-20-20 targets and foster rural development as set out in EIP AGRI. FORBIO will demonstrate the viability of using land in MSs for non-food bioenergy feedstock production without interfering with the production of food or feed, nor with land currently used for recreatio...
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REVAB: REuse and Valorization of Agricultural Buildings through training based on real experiences

Start date: Nov 2, 2015, End date: May 1, 2018,

In the last years rural areas are facing hard challenges: - The economic crisis that EU is facing in the last years had negative effects on the employment rate in the member countries. More specifically the unemployment rate in the EU passed from 6,4% in 2007 to 11,2% in January 2015 (Eurostat, March 2015). In addition to this the unemployment rate in predominantly rural regions of the EU is even...
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Sustainable futures for Europe’s HERitage in CULtural landscapES: Tools for understanding, managing, and protecting landscape functions and values (HERCULES)

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

European cultural landscapes are valued as everyday living environment, countryside, heritage, scenery with aesthetic and recreational qualities and unique biodiversity, and as a source of ecosystem services that they provide to society. Cultural landscapes, however, are undergoing rapid and fundamental transformations across Europe, mainly as a result of an on-going polarization of land use, with...
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