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Inspirational Idea: Smart logistics to connect farmers and consumers.
DistriKempen, a group of five farmers from the Kempen region (Belgium) were searching for ways to deal with the transport of their fresh products to customers in the region. In 2013 they found the perfect people: Dorien Goris, and her brother Geert. Dorien: “Assisted by the Flemish Innovation Support Centre...
Belgium
2015 - Agriculture&Innovation
Report
Pilot project: Exchange programmes for young farmers
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...
Belgium - Bulgaria - Croatia - Cyprus - Czechia - Estonia - European Union - Finland - France - Germany - Greece - Hungary - Ireland - Italy - Latvia - Lithuania - Luxembourg - Malta - Netherlands (Kingdom of the) - Poland - Portugal - Romania - Slovakia - Slovenia - Sri Lanka - Sweden - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2015 - European Commission
Conference/Meeting
2024 prospects for EU agricultural markets
The European Commission's Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development presented its latest projections for crop, milk and meat markets in the EU for the next ten years.
Leading experts from international organisations also presented their views.
The conference concluded with a panel discussion involving representatives from OECD, FAO, USDA and the European...
Belgium
2015 - The European Commission's Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development
Journal
L'agriculture une histoire de famille
L’agriculture familiale est la forme d’agriculture majoritaire sur la planète. Sur 570millions d’exploitations agricoles dans le monde, 500millions sont des exploitations familiales et assurent plus de la moitié de la production agricole mondiale!
Belgium
2015 - Actions des organisations agricoles pour la défense de l’agriculture familiale
Magazine article
Flemish Organic Research & Knowledge NetworFlemish Organic Research & Knowledge Network: Promoting Farmer-Led Knowledge Exchange and Research
The Flemish Knowledge and Research Network for Organic Food and Farming (FORK) was created in 2009 by Landwijzer, the organic training centre, BioForum, which represents the Flemish organic food and farming sector, the Coordination Centre for Applied Research and Extension on Organic Agriculture (CCBT) and the Network for Organic Food...
Belgium
2015 - IFOAM EU Group
Report
Public procurement serving family farming: analysis of the obstacles and opportunities for farmers and institutions in Wallonia
Several projects have been set up in the Walloon Region of Belgium to use public procurement to support family farming. Report of a seminar that brought together representatives from these projects and representatives of Southern farmers networks to discuss lessons learned. Looks at problems and challenges from the farmers perspective...
Belgium
2014 - Collectif Stratégies Alimentaires
Conference/Meeting
Connecting Research and Practice in Agriculture and Rural Areas
On 14 January 2014, DG AGRI and the EIP-AGRI Service Point organised a workshop, which focussed on the practical aspects of the Horizon 2020 calls for multi-actor projects and thematic networks related to agriculture and forestry. The workshop was kicked off by DG AGRI director Jose Sousa Uva who gave...
Belgium
2014 - Agriculture&Innovation
Website
Family Farming website
The website about family farmers and their farms, begun in 2014 to show the diversity of family farmers ‘Feeding the World, Caring for the Earth‘ by a collection of first hand experiences (snapshots) as an educational resource for anywhere in the world. The concept of this comes from the International...
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2014 - Family farms.enviroed4all
Magazine article
Organic farming in Europe: moving into the mainstream
Organic farming no longer serves a niche market in the European Union (EU). In spite
of the global economic crisis, the mainstreaming of organic products has maintained
its impressive trajectory: since 2008 there has been an average annual growth rate of
8%; annual turnover has risen to €20 billion; and more than 500...
Austria - Belgium - Croatia - Cyprus - Czechia - Denmark - Finland - France - Germany - Greece - Hungary - Ireland - Italy - Lithuania - Luxembourg - Malta - Netherlands (Kingdom of the) - Poland - Portugal - Romania - Slovakia - Slovenia - Spain - Sweden - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2014
Magazine article
Végépack : un retour progressif vers la production locale
À Arlon, la société Végépack commercialise des champignons qu’elle produit et des légumes de producteurs locaux. Son objectif : redéployer des cultures locales, et notamment les pleurotes. Créée en 1997, la société Végépack compte vingt-trois employés, un chiffre d’affaires de plus de 4,5 millions d’euros, et «garde une taille moyenne...
Belgium
2014
Magazine article
The Diversity of Family Farms is Strength for World Agriculture
In the world, more than 80 per cent of farms are family farms – in total more than 500 million economic and social entities. In Europe 25 million people, 172 million hectares of agricultural land and 12 million farms are involved in EU agricultural production. A vast majority of these...
Austria - Belgium - Croatia - Cyprus - Czechia - Denmark - Finland - France - Germany - Greece - Hungary - Ireland - Italy - Latvia - Lithuania - Luxembourg - Malta - Poland - Portugal - Romania - Slovakia - Slovenia - Spain - Sweden - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2014
Magazine article
Maintaining the costs of the farm by investing in green energy
Promoting renewable energy sources is a central theme on the European level and stimulating the purchase of equipment for producing renewable energy mainly for ensuring the energy demand in farms was a priority for the Rural Development Programs during 2007-2013, inserted in 2009, through the European Economic Recovery Plan. This...
Belgium
2014
Magazine article
Flanders: how to install the new generation of farmers
The applicant of this project is a 38 years old farmer who meets the minimum requirements in terms of education, by graduating the Melle Agricultural College in the year 1990. Between 1990 and 2008 he supported his father in the development of the farm activity. In 2008, when his father...
Belgium
2014
Journal article
HNV Farming – Explaining the Concept and Interpreting EU and National Policy Commitments
The concept of “High Nature Value farming” developed in the early 1990s from a growing recognition that the conservation of biodiversity in Europe depends on the continuation of low-intensity farming systems across large areas of countryside (see Beaufoy et al., 1994; Bignal et al., 1994; Bignal & McCracken, 1996; 2000)....
Austria - Belgium - Bulgaria - Croatia - Cyprus - Czechia - Denmark - Estonia - Finland - France - Germany - Greece - Hungary - Ireland - Italy - Latvia - Lithuania - Luxembourg - Malta - Netherlands (Kingdom of the) - Poland - Romania - Slovakia - Slovenia - Spain - Sweden - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2014
Book part
Family farming in the European Union
Family farming is the most common operational farming model in Europe – representing 97 % of the European Union’s (EU) 12 million farms. Thus it is of great importance in the EU. It covers a diverse range of situations, including farms of all sizes. While there are obvious differences across...
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2014
Article
Structure and dynamics of EU farms: changes, trends and policy relevance
12 million farms, 172 million hectares of agricultural land, 25 million people involved in agricultural production – these are some of the key data for the EU farming sector in 2010; but what about the situation of individual farms and how do things differ between Member States and as compared...
Austria - Belgium - Bulgaria - Croatia - Cyprus - Czechia - Denmark - Finland - France - Germany - Greece - Hungary - Ireland - Italy - Latvia - Lithuania - Luxembourg - Malta - Netherlands (Kingdom of the) - Poland - Portugal - Romania - Slovakia - Slovenia - Spain - Sweden - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2013
Conference/Meeting
"Family farming: A dialogue towards more sustainable and resilient farming in Europe and the world"
The concept of family farming covers various elements. From a sociological perspective, family farming is associated with family values, such as solidarity, continuity and commitment; in economic terms, family farming is identified with specific entrepreneurial skills, business ownership and management, choice and risk behaviour, resilience and individual achievement.
Belgium
2013 - European Commission
Magazine article
Brussels and Wallonia: Green pioneer projects in sustainable food systems
As a major European capital, Brussels may not be the first place one would think of when discussing sustainable food systems. However, it is full of crucial actors of the transition: consumers. In the face of an increasing discrepancy between the supply of sustainable food products and demand (e.g. demand...
Belgium
2013
Article
Promoting Family Farming: The European Union
Domestic and donor-driven development agendas for African agriculture are spurring smallholder family farming as a catalyst for food security and poverty reduction. Family farms are also the backbone of agriculture in the European Union, although the process of concentration has gone further than in Africa. European agricultural policy reforms now...
Austria - Belgium - Bulgaria - Croatia - Cyprus - Czechia - Denmark - Estonia - Finland - France - Germany - Greece - Hungary - Ireland - Italy - Latvia - Lithuania - Luxembourg - Malta - Netherlands (Kingdom of the) - Poland - Portugal - Romania - Slovakia - Slovenia - Spain - Sweden - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2013
Journal
EU Rural review. Family Farming
The concept of family farming is the recipient of much high-level political capital right now...
The United Nations has declared 2014 the International Year of Family Farming, the primary aim of which is to promote, develop and strengthen all types of familyoriented agriculture - from horticulture and livestock to fisheries and forestry - as a socially...
Austria - Belgium - Hungary - Ireland - Italy - Malta - Portugal - Romania - Slovakia - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2013
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