The agricultural and rural development policy seeks to facilitate the transition towards environmentally sustainable and climate-neutral agricultural practices, with a focus on human capital, knowledge, and innovation. Gender equality can play a significant role in promoting environmentally sustainable practices in the agricultural sector, particularly through the adoption and implementation of...

This Projects Brochure highlights examples of CAP-funded projects led by women and initiatives that are advancing gender equality in rural areas. In line with the European Commission’s 2020-2025 Gender Equality Strategy, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) now includes a Specific Objective aimed at enhancing the position of women in farming and...

The International Summer School is a collaboration between Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW)'s research group Geography of Food, the Swiss Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL), the Hungarian Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (ÖMKi), and research institutes in Spain and Slovenia. In this International Summer School, you will learn about various perspectives on agrobiodiversity and its contribution...

This article details the experience shared during World Soil Day 2022 event on how to make uncultivable soil fertile and suitable for food production in Slovenia while increasing interest in this subject for younger generations through practice-driven education.

Organically bred sheep and goats can play a key role in preserving the landscape and biodiversity in the steeper meadows and pastures in Zasavje, a picturesque valley in the Sava Hills in central Slovenia. However, local breeders were facing difficulties in selling their meat due to the low prices and...

Welcome to the final newsletter from the Farm-Success project!Since you last heard from us we have been carrying out the final adjustments, tests, and translations to our online training platform. We have also held several multiplier events across Europe in which young farmers and other stakeholders have discussed the importance of succession processes...

A dairy plant in Slovenia created a local mountain supply chain with high added value that resulted in having a positive impact on the local economy and promote the long tradition of the area in dairy production. By modernizing and improving its production technology, the dairy effectively transformed the plant...

Mlekarna Planika (Planika dairy) implemented a step by step technical and technological modernisation that effectively transformed it from a milk powder producer to one of the leading producers of high quality fresh milk and cheese in Slovenia. The modernisation was carried out on a step by step approach as in...

A dairy plant in Slovenia created a local mountain supply chain with high added value that resulted in having a positive impact on the local economy and promote the long tradition of the area in dairy production. By modernizing and improving its production technology, the dairy effectively transformed the plant...

Transmission of farms within the family - this is the main theme of the European project Farm Success, in which the Association of Private Agriculture in the Czech Republic is also involved . As part of our case studies, we have farms stories  from several European countries and we think it...

On March 31st 2017, representatives from different institutions met in Solčava, a remote village in the Upper Savinja valley in Slovenia, to publicly present their initiative to form a project consortium whose main aim will be to establish a wood value chain for Mountain wood as a developmental opportunity for...

Nearly 61% of EU young farmers consider the availability of land for purchase and 57% the availability of land for rent as the most difficult challenges they face, often due to issues such as land ownership laws, inheritance rules and land prices, according to a new external report published by...

In the period to 2020, the new CAP will invest around EUR 1.8 billion in Slovenia’s farming sector and rural areas, with additional co-financing from the Slovenian authorities. Key political priorities have been defined at European level such as: jobs and growth, sustainability, modernisation, innovation and quality. At the same...

Matching the logistics of a farmers' cooperative with consumers' needs can be a real challenge. The Jarina farmers’ cooperative has found and tested several solutions over the past 12 years.  It first started as an initiative to improve quality of life in the municipality of Litija, by promoting local agribusiness...

Bees and other pollinators are very important for human survival. One third of food produced in the world depends on pollination and bees play the most important role among the pollinators. By pollination, bees contribute to successful agricultural production, to providing food security, and they also assure the nutritional security...

From a transition enterprise to a successful story: a Slovenian unit for sorting and packing fruit was modernized with EAFRD financing. This project is the story of an important regional producer, respectively of a company providing one third of the fruit in Slovenia. Placed in the South-East of Slovenia, in...

The Slovenian farm, Puhan, has 11 hectares of arable land, three acres of grape vines and a hectare of forest. Its tourist offer is based on a wide variety of food and drink healthy, mostly local products. The farm is a member of the association “DISI Prekmurje po” (Scent of...

The analysis of survey responses shows that young farmers have different expectations and needs, depending on the region in which they live, the agricultural sector in which they work (intensive, extensive), their level of education, their relation to the farm (owner of the farm or not) etc. This study revealed...

The project aimed to re-activate cross-border trade of local agricultural products, through joint marketing and the integration of traditional marketplaces on which local farmers from the border area in past times sold their own agricultural products. EU accession led to the withdrawal of former barriers, which once separated Italy from...

This research comprises an in-depth analysis of the Slovenian pig meat supply chain where the models of supply chain relationship in pig production were scrutinised. The data was collected in an extensive nation-wide survey including 152 respondents. Besides the structural characteristics of farms the focus was on vertical relationships and...