This edition of the EAFRD Projects Brochure is on the theme of 'supporting rural business'. The title reflects an interpretation that focuses not only on supporting individual rural businesses, but on helping to create the kind of enabling environment that can allow businesses to be set up, to d...
Youth in rural areas, and young farmers in particular, enhance rural vitality and pave the way for stronger value chains and rural prosperity. Generational renewal is one of the preconditions for improved competitiveness of the agricultural sector over the longer term and for sustainable food pr...
The Rural Inspiration Awards (RIA) 2019 were the first EU-wide rural development good practice competition organised by the ENRD in the 2014-2020 programming period. This initiative celebrated projects that are using funding from the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) in an...
The recent revision of the EU bioeconomy strategy clearly signals the strong policy ambition for Europe’s renewable biological resources. The full deployment of the strategy will create and maintain many jobs in rural areas through the growing participation of primary producers in the bioeconomy...
The European countryside offers unique potential in terms of quality of life, typically with cheaper land and housing, more space, cleaner air, and easier access to high quality natural landscapes compared to many parts of urban Europe. Rural areas that combine these natural strengths with adequ...