Policy solutions, supporting evidence and best practices to address key challenges to promote female-led innovations in agriculture and rural areas 

FLIARA has produced a wealth of evidence on how to promote innovation by women in rural areas.

Project partners have condensed this evidence into an easily accessible format of 58 policy briefs based on a common format with the following setup:

• an executive summary,
• an overview of the challenges addressed by the brief,
• the proposed policy solutions,
• supporting evidence & best practices,
• conclusion & call to action and
• suggestions for further reading.

Draft policy briefs have been discussed internally in the project and with relevant stakeholders in the national contexts of the project partners to ensure their practice orientation.

Policy briefs are orientated towards a specific context but may also function as inspiration to other contexts.

The content of the briefs addresses a variety of subjects, including the following subjects:

 

How to organise the social network, including the organisation of care:

CZ05 Strengthening Care for Pre-school Children

CZ06 Improving care for lonely seniors

DE04 Maternity Leave Reform

SE01 Providing Adequate Parental Leave

SE02 Providing Adequate Childcare and After School Activities

SE03 Maintaining Schools in Rural Areas

SE04 Culture and Sports in Rural Areas

 

How to improve financial security and access to capital:

C Z04 Reduce to pay gaps between hard and soft professions

DE02 Empowering Rural Women through Tailored Measures

ES01 Financial gaps and opportunities for rural women-led innovation projects

FI03 Special targeted support for atypical rural SMEs

IE01 Improve access to finance to better support women-led rural and farm innovation

IT02 Funding and Advisory Services for Women Innovators in Rural Areas

IT03 Local Support to Women Innovators

NL01 Promoting a Diversity of Inclusive and Sustainable Agricultural Practices

RO01 Unlocking the potential of rural women through inclusive CAP measures

RO05 Promoting gender equality in Romania’s rural communities by supporting innovative women driving sustainable development

SE07 Addressing Inequities in Financial Support to Enhance the Sustainable Transition

SI01 Start-up Finance, Training and Mentoring Vouchers for Rural Women

 

How to contribute to a healthy work-life balance:

ES02 Family & Work Conciliation Policies for Women in Rural Areas

IE09 Balancing Women-led Innovation, Rural and Farm Family-life: The Need for Improved Policy Support

IT04 Improving Family and Work Balance in Rural Areas

SE05 Implementing a Farmer Relief Service

 

How to support the commercialization of products, to provide access to markets for novel innovative products:

ES03 Strengthening the Commercialisation of Women-Led Rural Products and Services through Support Networks

NL03 Supporting Direct-to-Consumer and Short Supply Chain Farming

 

How to improve the advisory network infrastructure in a way that there is access to relevant advise for innovative rural women and women farmers:

IT02 Funding and Advisory Services for Women Innovators in Rural Areas

SE08 Reforming the Knowledge Support System to Foster Innovation in Rural Areas

SI02 Empowering Rural Women Through Targeted Advisory Services

 

How to develop a learning network that provides not only access to formal training but also promotes mutual learning between women that are spotlighted based on their achievements:

CZ01 Include more gender education in School Curricula

CZ02 Create a platform for sharing experiences and examples of good practices

DE01 Connecting Women: A Driver for Agricultural Innovation

DE03 Learning how to Engage with Stakeholders

EU01 Spotlighting Rural Women in Sustainable Innovation

FI04 Co-creation platforms for rural women

FI05 Visibility platforms supporting rural entrepreneurship and renewing rural image

IE02 Improve skills training opportunities targeting women-led rural and farm innovation

IE03 Women’s Empowerment as a Driver of Rural and Agricultural Innovation

IE04 Innovating from the Ground Up: Digital Policy Pathways to Support Women in Agriculture and Rural Areas

IE05 Building a Gender Inclusive AKIS in Ireland

IT01 Training for Women Innovating in Farming and Rural Areas

IT05 Reframing and Expanding AKIS in Italy to Reach Women Innovators

IT06 Spotlighting Women in Sustainable Rural Innovation

NL02 Promoting Positive Images of Rural Farming Women and Rural Women Entrepreneurs Across All Education Curricula

RO04 Improving networking support and social spaces for rural women

SE09 Education on Sustainable Food Production in Swedish Schools

SE10 Diversifying AKIS in Sweden

 

And finally how to come to integrated policies:

EU02 Apply Gender Mainstreaming in Farming and Rural Areas

EU03 How women-led innovations can contribute to EU Rural Vision 2040

FI01 How women-led innovations can contribute to EU Rural Vision 2040?

IE06 Ireland’s CAP Strategic Plan and Gender Equality

IE07 The Gender Gap in Generational Renewal

IE08 Strengthening the Voice of Rural and Farm Women in Decision-Making Spaces

IE09 Balancing Women-led Innovation, Rural and Farm Family-life: The Need for Improved Policy Support

IT03 Local Support to Women Innovators

NL01 Promoting a Diversity of Inclusive and Sustainable Agricultural Practices

NL04 Incorporating Gender Policy KPI in CAP, CSP & LEADER

NL05 Addressing Underrepresentation of Rural Women and Rural Entrepreneurship in the Emancipation National Policy

RO01 Unlocking the potential of rural women through inclusive CAP measures

RO02 Building gender-sensitive capacity for rural development governance

RO03 Supporting Women’s Return to Rural Areas and Promoting Female Entrepreneurship

RO05 Promoting gender equality in Romania’s rural communities by supporting innovative women driving sustainable development