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New Entrant netWork: Business models for Innovation, entrepreneurship and resilience in European agriculture

Project description

Incentivising the next generation of European farmers

The number of new farmers entering the agricultural sector in many European countries is declining, while many existing farms are not being taken over. To remain competitive and resilient in the industry, the sector needs to attract young entrepreneurs and help them to overcome intimidating challenges. To address this, the EU-funded NEWBIE project aims to provide incentives for newcomers by developing a range of agricultural business models to facilitate getting started. A transdisciplinary team of farming organisations, educators, advisors, researchers, and industry stakeholders will be involved in designing and assessing the business models, as well as in setting up support networks to keep the new farms sustainable.

Objective

Sustaining a cohort of new entrants is crucial to the ongoing vitality, resilience and competitiveness of the agricultural sector and rural regions in Europe. New entrants bring with them innovation and entrepreneurialism, as well as practical skills and networks developed on farms and through off-farm employment. However, new entrants face considerable challenges in entering the sector, particularly access to land, capital, labour and markets, but also business skills and knowledge development on both applied and theoretical levels. Analysis of Eurostat figures suggests that there is not an adequate replacement rate of young farmers in many European countries, although there is evidence of considerable innovation and comparatively high rates of new entrants in others (Zagata and Sutherland, 2015). The NEWBIE Network (New Entrant netWork: Business models for Innovation, entrepreneurship and resilience in European agriculture) has been designed to address the significant challenge of enabling new entrants to successfully establish sustainable farm businesses in Europe. The NEWBIE network will facilitate the development and dissemination of new business models, including new entry models, to the full range of new entrants - from successors to complete newcomers to the agricultural sector. This will be achieved by a transdisciplinary network of farming organisations, educators, advisors, researchers and industry stakeholders, who will assemble, assess and exchange the state of the art on new entrant farming enterprises, and establish national and European new entrant support networks. NEWBIE will focus particularly on enabling innovative business models developed by new entrants to be integrated into academic research and educational curricula, and broadly disseminated to new entrants across Europe.

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STICHTING WAGENINGEN RESEARCH
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€ 420 534,50
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DROEVENDAALSESTEEG 4
6708 PB Wageningen
Netherlands

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Oost-Nederland Gelderland Veluwe
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