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Adding value to farms - OnFarm aims to provide information


Small and medium-sized farms depend on adding value to their farm and cannot benefit from economies of scale to the same extent as large farms. The OnFarm project aims to support these farms by developing information materials to present different ways of increasing value creation. Specifically, a practice-oriented white paper is developed that addresses opportunities for value creation on farms as well as political and social framework conditions. At the core of the project are information materials that will be made available on an online platform (so-called Online Educational Resources). The offer is rounded off with a podcast series that will take up various topics of farm value creation and discuss them with experts and practitioners from agriculture.

The kick-off meeting for the project, which will run for two years until the end of 2023, took place on 31 January and 1 February. The project is coordinated by the Association of Private Farms of the Czech Republic. In addition to the IfLS, the European Young Farmers' Association (CEJA), the Tuscany section of the Italian Farmers' Association (CIA Toscana) and the Slow Food Youth Network (SFYN) from the Netherlands as well as the Spanish project consultancy OnProjects are involved in the project. The IfLS is coordinating the writing of the White Paper and contributing to the content of the other project outputs. These will be successively published on the project website as the project progresses.

The project is funded within the framework of the ERASMUS+ programme.

Contact: Ulrich Gehrlein (gehrlein[at]ifls.de) and Christoph Mathias (mathias[at]ifls.de)