Many grass roots initiatives across Europe Germany

Many grass roots initiatives across Europe Netherlands

Many grass roots initiatives across Europe United Kingdom

Many grass roots initiatives across Europe Belgium

Many grass roots initiatives across Europe France

Many grass roots initiatives across Europe Sweden

Many grass roots initiatives across Europe Ireland

Many grass roots initiatives across Europe

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Meadow birds Grassland biodiversity Bees Dams Waste management Grassland biodiversity Landscape Management Grassland biodiversity Carbon sequestration Integrated Pest Management Renewable energy Integrated Pest Management Cropland biodiversity Soil conservation Water management Carbon sequestration

Territorial coordination Project groups Study groups Informal networks Formal associations Benificiaries

Shared convictions balanced economic, environmental and social sustainability  CSR Better value for money  effectiveness

Shared convictions balanced economic, environmental and social sustainability  CSR Better value for money  effectiveness Shared values Collaborative attitude Willingness to share knowledge Take responsibility Dialogue with other stakeholders

Shared convictions balanced economic, environmental and social sustainability  CSR Better value for money  effectiveness Shared values Collaborative attitude Willingness to share knowledge Take responsibility Dialogue with other stakeholders

PositiveTo be improved Better delivery (potentially) Less red tape Enthousiasm Change of mindset Social interaction Pools of innovation

PositiveTo be improved Better deliveryAppropriate scale (potentially) Less red tapeAttitude officials EnthousiasmEFA and P2 integration Change of mindsetKnowledge exchange Social interactionDemand driven research Pools of innovationInvolvement of NGO’s

New: P1: regionale implementation EFA’s P2: Groups of farmers can act as benificiary P2: Article 35 – cooperation P2: EIP – operational groups  H2020

Territorial initiatives are front-runners of a new movement to make European agriculture, in all its diversity, more sustainable and a more effective manager of public goods What they lack: Access to experiences and knowledge to further improve their own practices; Direct access to policy makers, implementers and controllers at the European level; Access to connect to relevant actors and stakeholders at European level.

Goals & ambitions 1.Collect and exchange knowledge and best practices and to set an agenda for (further) debate, exchange and (practical) research; 2.Formulate recommendations to improve national and European policies 3.Discuss these recommendations with relevant policy makers and policy implementers at European level;

Goals & ambitions 4.Promote and disseminate the values of the platform and showcase initiatives; 5.To come to a European multi-actor, multi-stakeholder movement for territorial cooperation and other self- governance models ; 6.Propagate forms of integrated, multifunctional agricultural production that are more sustainable in the agro-ecological sense, delivers more and better ecosystem services 7.Open dialogue with society, green NGO’s, etc.

Actions 1. Information sharing 2. Training and capacity building 3. Research 4. Policy advice

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