Documentaries on the Best Practices in Rural Development carried out by young farmers that have been granted support under EU Rural development policies.

Ethical purchasing groups, known as GAS (Gruppi di Acquisto Solidale) first appeared in Italy in the 1990s. GAS are groups of consumers who purchase collectively and directly from producers who are chosen on the basis of sustainable production principles. GAS groups were born from the desire to build a healthy...

Terra Madre Giovani - We Feed the Planet will be held in Milan from October 3 to 6, 2015. The event will give a starring role to the young people working in food production, with thousands of farmers, food artisans, fishers, nomads, Indigenous Peoples, cooks, students and activists from all...

The conference will bring foundations together with diverse stakeholders (civil society organizations, public, multilateral institutions and others) to look at good practices supported by foundations in the fields of land use and sustainable food systems and to discuss elements of success, replicability and the potential to scale-up. This will be...

University of Milan is pleased to Welcome you to the 7thEuropean Conference on Precision Livestock Farming that will be held from the 15th to the 18th of September, 2015, in Milan, Italy. The European Conference on Precision Livestock Farming takes place every two years, and during the last edition was confirmed...

Today, the crisis situation in the European dairy sector clearly highlights the failures of our current EU policies for supporting viable farm enterprises and balanced rural development. As a result the programme will include a panel discussion looking at whether EU agri-food policies are capable of supporting sustainable farming and...

G20 Members (Turkey, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Indıa, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, the United Kingdom, the United States of America and the EU) represent 85% of the world’s economy, 70% of the global agricultural economy and the two thirds 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...

Documentaries on the Best Practices in Rural Development carried out by young farmers that have been granted support under EU Rural development policies.

Documentaries on the Best Practices in Rural Development carried out by young farmers that have been granted support under EU Rural development policies.

The National Rural Development Programme (NRDP) Italy, outlining the priorities for Italy for the use of approximately 2.14 billion EUR of public expenditure (963 million EUR from the EU budget and 1.17 billion EUR of national co-financing) for the period from 2014- 2020, was formally adopted by the European Commission...

Documentaries on the Best Practices in Rural Development carried out by young farmers that have been granted support under EU Rural development policies.

Documentaries on the Best Practices in Rural Development carried out by young farmers that have been granted support under EU Rural development policies.

More than 90 per cent of Italian farms have a usable agricultural area of less than 9 ha, even if over time there has been a growth of the average agricultural area per farm as a consequence of rural out-migration. This paper compares, using a nonparametric model, the technical efficiency...

Investing in farm infrastructure helped a family farm in Italy to overcome difficulties by increasing productivity and the quality of its product, a specialised local pecorino cheese. In 2002, the Martinelli farm, a 240 ha sheep farm in the province of Pescara, was experiencing serious economic difficulty. The young owner,...

Vincenzo Sposato, the owner of the “Le conche” farm, took over the family business in 2009. The investment made with the support of EAFRD resulted in improvement of agricultural productivity, diversification by focusing on breeding and reproducing pigs and developing new distribution channels for the products; All this led to...

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...

AGRIREGIONIEUROPA has the twofold aim  to foster dialogue between scientific research and land in agriculture, agribusiness and rural development, and to combine the regional and national dimension with the international and European Union in particular. This issue of the journal is entirely devoted to family farming,  with a geographical focus...

Through this transnational cooperation project, the young people of the territories of six LAG in Italy, Finland and France found local traditions and legends, bringing added value and innovation of rural and cultural identity by writing stories and editing video montages (storytelling). Recognizing the importance of the countryside, the youths...

Professional documentaries on young farmer’s winners of the third edition of the "New factors of Success," which selection best practices in rural development by young farmers who have benefited from the EAFRD. The documentaries are produced by young professionals selected thanks to the involvement of the best film schools in...