The Commission gave its green light to the CAP Strategic Plans of Bulgaria and Romania for the new Common Agricultural Policy 2023-27.
The European Commission approved the CAP Strategic Plans of the two Belgian regions, Flanders and Wallonia. Belgium is the only EU country with two CAP Strategic Plans, which brings the total number of CAP Plans to 28 for 27 EU countries.
The Commission gave its green light to the CAP Strategic Plans of Cyprus and Italy for the new Common Agricultural Policy 2023-27.
This dashboard features data to monitor and assess food supply and food security in the EU. It also includes external sources that serve as an alert system.
The Commission gave its green light to the CAP Strategic Plan of Malta for the new Common Agricultural Policy 2023-27.
The latest monthly agri-food trade report shows developments in imports and exports of EU agri-food products in August 2022, and features a special focus on agri-food trade with India.
The European disability card will facilitate free movement for people with disabilities in the EU. With the card, disability status recognised in one EU country should be recognised in others too, giving the holder access to preferential conditions for some services across the EU. This can be of particular relevance to people with disabilities in cross-border areas of the EU, many of which are rural.
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The Commission publishes an evaluation support study of the EU school scheme, supporting the distribution of fruit, vegetables and milk to schoolchildren.
The ‘Handbook of Territorial and Local Development Strategies’ has been launched on 18th November! It provides valuable knowledge on how to design and implement integrated strategies in areas other than urban. It aims to serve managing authorities of operational programmes, local strategy owners as well as other stakeholders involved in the process, and in particular those who are designing or revising territorial and local development strategies by means of territorial tools (Integrated Territorial Investments, Community-led Local Development, ...).
November - Intro
Check out the following calendars for further upcoming events
Eurostat released its annual Regional Yearbook publication package in October 2022, with specific focus on the impact of the pandemic and the Year of Youth.
The seminar in Lednice, "Community-led Local Development and Smart Villages as Innovative Tools for Effective Development of Rural Areas", brought together representatives of the European Parliament, the Committee of the Regions (CoR), the Czech EU Council presidency and the European Commission, as well as stakeholders of local development projects funded and supported by EU programmes.
Strengthening rural innovation is one of the key goals to have stronger rural areas by 2040. The analysis that backed the EU rural vision highlighted the lack of specific knowledge and data on innovation in rural contexts. The work launched by OECD on rural innovation helps to fill the gap. This first of a series of thematic and country reports explores the multi-facetted innovative practices that are already occurring in rural places, and proposes alternative indicators beyond the traditional science and technology measures to capture them.
The European Parliament's Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development adopted a draft resolution on “A Long-Term Vision for the EU's Rural Areas - Towards stronger, connected, resilient and prosperous rural areas by 2040” on 25 October. Members stressed the key role of rural areas and called for immediate EU and national measures tailored to the needs of rural areas. The draft resolution will be put to a plenary vote, on 12 December.
ODRAZ-Sustainable Community Development and the European Economic and Social Committee organised an event on 7 October in Croatia on “A long-term Vision for the EU's Rural Areas - Towards stronger, connected, resilient and prosperous rural areas”, including a panel discussion entitled "Holistic approach for sustainable and just rural/urban development". Find out more about this event, thanks to Lidija Pavić-Rogošić's contribution!
Let's now go to Northern Greece to meet the Resilient Futures winner and the Greek Red Kastoria-Kristallopigi cows. The project indeed aimed to restore this breed, after genetic resources had been eroded, which created animals that were vulnerable to disease and injury. The winner reversed this trend by establishing a pedigree certification. Read more!
The Digital Futures winner takes us to the Piltown/Fiddown community in Ireland. On learning that their villages were outside the National Broadband Plan funding area, they decided to build their own community-owned and future proofed "fibre to the premises" (FTTP) network. Find out more about this awarded project!
