On the 11th of June the Commission for Rural Communities in the UK will be hosting an event entitled “Designing services for rural communities: the [...]

An alarm has sounded on how global warming could impact European livestock. Speaking to members of the Society for General Microbiology (SGM) recently, Professor Peter [...]

With a strong focus on agri-environment measures within Axis 2 of the Rural Development Programme, many of our readers may be interested in the announcment [...]

The first seminar of the European Network for Rural Development (EN RD), entitled “Capacity building for national rural networks: the challenges of national rural networks [...]

On the 1st of April the European Commission published a white paper outlining actions needed to strengthen the Union’s resilience in coping with a changing [...]

The Rural Development Support Unit were invited to contribute to a major EU wide seminar which brought together the National Rural Networks and Ministries as [...]