Forests make up about 40% of the European Union’s total land area. They are unique habitats, a valuable natural resource, and important for rural livelihoods and national economies. Forest ecosystems capture and store carbon, purify our drinking water, prevent soil erosion, protect us from flood...
LEADER promotes integrated rural Community-Led Local Development with key features of bottom-up and multi-sector approaches, local partnerships and place-based design and delivery, funded through the Common Agricultural Policy (Regulation (EU) No 1305/2013), under a common framework (Regulation ...
EU forests are multifunctional, serving environmental, economic and social purposes. Although forest cover has grown in the past 30 years, the condition of forests is deteriorating. Sustainable management practices are key to maintaining biodiversity and addressing climate change in forests. We ...
The European Commission has been promoting animal welfare for over 40 years, especially as citizen expectations on animal-husbandry standards have been increasing. Recently, it has added the use of antimicrobials in animal production to its priorities in order to address resistance to those drug...