D5.2 30 Case studies on rural newcomers, new entrants to farming and successors

Abstract

<p>This report is a documentation of an extensive case study analysis which was carried out by the RURALIZATION team, from summer 2020 to summer 2021. This research improves the understanding of the situation of rural newcomers, new entrants into farming and successors, which includes the definition of specific circumstances and drivers that make some rural areas perform better than other areas in generational renewal (including overcoming traditional gender roles, innovation and rural development) and rural regeneration. The RURALIZATION team identified a large diversity of promising practices that facilitate rural newcomers, new entrants into farming and successors in fostering generational renewal and rural regeneration in 11 European countries. A common methodology was defined to execute 10 case studies on new entrants in farming, 10 on successors and 10 on rural newcomers. The practices were analysed in detail considering their contexts, initiation, development, impact and perspectives. The case study reports are included respectively in section one, two and three of the report. In order to present more user-friendly results, the findings were synthesized in 30 fact sheets (in EIP Agri Format) that are included in the fourth section of the report. To allow a wide dissemination, fact sheets are available in the following language: Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, English, Italian, Polish, Romanian and Spanish.<br></p>