Young Farmers: Circles of Circular Economy

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FarmCircle participation in the DSPF Networking Event and presentation of the project

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Participation of FarmCircle in the Round table “Future of agriculture financing in Croatia within new Common agricultural policy for the period 2021-2027″, and presenting Bioeconomy to the farmers and interested stakeholders

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DSPF Networking Event in Vienna - Farm Circle

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Agriculture in Bioeconomy

The common agricultural policy (CAP) was first formulated in the Treaty of Rome in 1958. A strategic document has been developed under the Europe 2020 flagship initiatives. Reforms supported by the strategic document have taken place. The new CAP applies for the period 2014-2020.

The CAP is financed by two funds. They include several environmental measures:

1. European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF)

a) Direct payments to farmers

  Cross-compliance links direct payments to farmers to compliance with basic standards concerning

the environment

food safety

animal and plant health and animal welfare

as the requirement of maintaining land in good agricultural and environmental conditions.

  In order to receive green direct payments farmers need to adopt practices such as

diversify crops,

maintain permanent grassland, and

dedicate 5 % of arable land to ‘ecologically beneficial elements’ fallow land, hedges and trees).

b) Market measures

  Help to stabilise biomass prices through public intervention (e.g. buying in through the competent authorities of Member States and storage of products).

2. European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD)

  Finances so-called agri-environment-climate measures. These measures affect the availability, prices and price stability of biomass and the environmental impact of bioeconomy value chains using agricultural raw materials.

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" (...) the production of renewable biological resources and the conversion of these resources and waste streams into value added products, such as food, feed, bio-based products and bioenergy. "

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“Does your organisation want to join the circular economy? The European Commission launched its first platform for #scalingcircularbusiness in Europe, offering SMEs the opportunity to connect with promising circular solution providers. Visit the platform at www.scalingcircularbusiness.eu and find out which solution(s) can help your organisation contribute to a circular economy”