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This publication contains a collection of good practices for rural revitalization developed in different rural areas across Spain's 17 autonomous communities. Reading it shows how these initiatives have achieved their goals, improving the communities that have embraced them in some way. We invite you to discover these stories, examples of how good ideas can come to fruition with a solid approach and a little support. Perhaps one could be an inspiration for you.

The Good Agricultural and Environmental Practices (GAPs) that farmers must comply with in order to fully receive direct CAP aid, area payments, livestock charges, and certain POSEI program aid have been simplified and made more flexible. Thus, starting with the 2025 Single Application (and in some cases as early as the 2024 Single Application), a series of changes are included in the following GAPs, which are classified according to the environmental objective to be achieved.

This brochure explains that the CAP Network is the meeting point that connects all individuals and entities related to the rural environment and agricultural activity, with the aim of disseminating and ensuring compliance with the PEPAC objectives and facilitating their implementation throughout the country. Organizations, administrations, advisors, researchers, and other innovation agents will continue to collaborate to enhance knowledge transfer and cooperation.

This video explains that the CAP Network, a platform of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, is part of the system for monitoring compliance with the measures of the CAP Strategic Plan (PEPAC) 2023-2027. The new PEPAC is geared toward achieving concrete results related to innovation, knowledge, and the digitalization of rural areas, and includes numerous new features in terms of support, objectives, and measures.

This video explains that the PAC Network is the meeting point that connects all individuals and entities related to the rural environment and agricultural activity, with the aim of disseminating and ensuring compliance with the PEPAC objectives and facilitating their implementation throughout the country. Organizations, administrations, advisors, researchers, and other innovation agents will continue to collaborate to enhance knowledge transfer and cooperation.

The NRN podcast with Mª Ángeles Benítez Salas, Director of the European Commission Representation in Spain since 2021. A law graduate, since joining the European Commission she has worked in a wide variety of departments, from the Fisheries Directorate to foreign relations, institutional relations and transparency, and the European Political Strategy Centre, from where she moved to the European Commission's Agriculture and Rural Development Directorate. We talked with her about the new PEPAC 23-27 and rural women.

Projects by rural women entrepreneurs participating in the series of workshops: "ENHANCING WOMEN IN THE AGRO-FOOD SECTOR"  

One of the areas of work of the RRN focuses on rural women and, in relation to this, different tools have been launched to detect the needs of women in rural areas, such as: interviews with territorial agents , a survey carried out on rural women and, finally, a Thematic Group "Rural Women 2022" , created in May 2022. This brochure details the activities to be launched, although in some cases already in the execution phase, by the RRN, as well as other areas of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAPA).

The project began in 2014, supporting extensive and transhumant livestock systems with profitable products. The rural world must seek out these niches and this natural capital to make the rural environment more profitable.