How to valorise grass into sustainable business models for rural communities? To address this challenge, GO-GRASS is investigating how the availability and quality of grass, the technology and process development,
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Entrepreneur Bo Lundmark amongst the reed canary grass grown at his farm in Glommersträsk, northern Sweden. In the vast expanse of northern Sweden, where temperatures sometimes plummet to -30°C in
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The European Commission is consulting stakeholders to shape the future of rural development all over Europe. It wants to create a vision of future developments and identify key elements to
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On 22 October 2020, the GO-GRASS project held its first online event in the framework of the EU Green Week, to shed light on the overlooked potential of grasslands for
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Grasslands cover 21% of the total surface of the EU-28 and as such are a key element of the regions landscape and biodiversity. Today, grass as a resource remains underutilised.
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Žymantas Morkvėnas is the acting director and biodiversity expert at the NGO Baltic Environmental Forum. His life’s work focuses on the agricultural practice impact on biodiversity and development of socio-economic
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The annual Rural Inspiration Awards 2020  competition hosted by the European Network for Rural Development received a whopping 71 entries this year!  Climate change mitigation projects received the most entries
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With the first outline of the ‘Farm to Fork’ strategy presented in March, the upcoming reform of the Common Agricultural Policy, and the launch of the new Green Deal for
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