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The future of rural lies in the hands of women
Galicia’s rural areas have very low population densities, aggravated by a dispersed habitat and increasingly marked ageing. It is also an area where the fertility rate is very low and […]
Published by , 12/07/2022Read More
A perspective on the Belgian MAP…. by a non-Belgian
When I first moved to Belgium in 2018, little did I know that fast forward to 2022, I would have co-animated a Multi-Actor Platform…in Wallonia! First, because of language constraints […]
Published by , 06/07/2022Read More
SHERPA at the Rural Pact Conference
On 15 and 16 June, the European Commission organised the Rural Pact Conference in Brussels, Belgium. The event brought together EU, national, and regional policy-makers alongside local authorities, social and […]
Published by , 22/06/2022Read More
What strategies for rural areas in CAP Strategic Plans? A Commission view
The agreement reached in 2021 to revise the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) empowers EU Member States to establish their own CAP Strategic Plans (CSP) to reach the nine CAP objectives, […]
Published by , 24/05/2022Read More
Diversifying Europe’s rural economy
Green and digital transitions will form part of a much-needed transformational change of European rural areas, and the necessary and significant adjustments require changes in the production and diversification of […]
Published by , 23/05/2022Read More
Environmental threats to rural areas
The sixth assessment report of the IPCC published at the end of February 2022 highlights the strong existing interactions between ecosystems, climate and human society. It also shows that climate […]
Published by , 16/03/2022Read More
Rural Estonia – attractive, but not enough…
Estonia is a small, sparsely populated country with plenty of forests and agricultural land, but at the same time its population is mostly concentrated in the cities. This reflects on […]
Published by , 22/02/2022Read More
Rural areas for climate neutrality
The UN Climate Change Conference, Convention of the Parties 26 (COP26), met in Glasgow, UK, from 31 October to 12 November 2021. Approximately 40 000 people attended the negotiations in the […]
Published by , 20/12/2021Read More
SHERPA webinar – What lays beyond the policy brief?
On 2 December 2021, SHERPA organised a webinar to discuss the engagement of local actors in the policy process at regional, national or European levels. It presented the findings and […]
Published by , 17/12/2021Read More
Looking back to move forward: lessons from the monitoring and evaluation of the MAPs
The monitoring and evaluation of the experiences of the 20 SHERPA Multi-Actor Platforms (MAPs) resulted in valuable insights on how to effectively establish and run MAPs to engage science, society […]
Published by , 25/08/2021Read More
The key role of digitalisation in the future of rural areas
On 30 June, the European Commission published the Communication on the Long-Term Vision for Rural Areas (LTVRA) up to 2040. The Vision identifies areas of action towards stronger, connected, resilient and prosperous rural […]
Published by , 13/08/2021Read More
Imagining the future of Europe’s rural areas
At the end of March this year, the European Network for Rural Development (ENRD), in close cooperation with DG AGRI, organised the virtual event ‘Rural Vision Week: Imagining the future […]
Published by , 27/04/2021Read More