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Videos
Maintaining traditions – The Stone Day
2010
Place: Estonia Category: EAFRD Projects
Tags: traditions, Leader, Estonian RDP
This video case study shows a popular and practical training day supported by the LEADER approach. During the training day, participants learned traditional stonemasonry skills.
Taavi the young beekeeper
2012
Place: Ülenurme, Tartumaa County, Estonia Category: EAFRD Projects
Tags: young farmer, beekeeping, apiculture, modernisation, Estonian RDP
This video case study focuses on a young farmer who has decided to cooperate in the beekeeping business with his father. He notes the importance of bees for the environment and agriculture and he explains how he developed an interest in beekeeping, what his job consists of and how he is using his experience gained abroad to improve the family-run business. The company received 133 883 euros of funding within the framework of Estonian Rural Development Programme.
Supporting rural jobs and Agroforestry landscapes on Lesvos
November 2013
Place: Lesvos, GreeceCategory: EAFRD Projects
Tags: EAFRD, ENRD, agroforestry, Greece, Lesvos
This case study highlights how Greece's Rural Development Programme is using EU funds to help farmers continue to operate in areas that suffer from 'natural handicaps'. The financial support not only helps to maintain livelihoods within rural communities but it also generates multiplier effects concerning the conservation of cultural landscapes.
Farmers Observing Plant and Animals in the Cultural Landscape
August 2013
Place: AustriaCategory: EAFRD Projects
Tags: Farmer; agri-environment; training; Austria; Rural Development Programme
This video case study explains how farmers can be trained to identify the species that their agri-environment payments are designed to protect. It provides an interesting approach to helping increase the visibility of results from agri-environment support schemes and the training project was funded using co-finance from Austria's Rural Development Programme.
