This edition of the EU Rural Review explores the main features of the social economy, highlighting its relevance for European rural areas and European policy objectives (including the EU Green Deal, the European Pillar of Social Rights and the Digital Agenda for Europe). Because of their foundin...
This edition of the EU Rural Review looks at how rural areas are making significant contributions towards climate action with support from the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD), acting in synergy with other European programmes and instruments. This edition of the EU Rural ...
This edition of the EU Rural Review builds on the outcomes of the ENRD work on the long-term Vision. The publication looks at the future of rural areas in digital, environmental and social terms, as well as in terms of resilience. This edition of the EU Rural Review includes articles by experts ...
LEADER is one of the longest standing, most successful and popular European-wide initiatives. Originally the only one where local communities played a central role in both designing strategies for the development of their areas and selecting projects to be implemented, it is now applied more wid...
More than half a billion people live in the European Union. Every one of these EU citizens can benefit from rural development policy outcomes that produce better quality food, as well as a vibrant and healthy countryside where people can live, work and visit. Member States’ Rural Development Pro...
A green economy is one that provides economic opportunities and improved human well-being in harmony with the sustainable management of natural resources. (See p.5 for the formal definition.) The transition to green rural economies is about improving people’s lives and livelihoods in rural areas...