A number of inspiring, innovative & effective social innovation solutions to key social challenges facing farmers, their families and other interested stakeholders are featured on the FARMWELL Project See: farmwell-h2020.eu/social-innovat… More examples will be added over the coming months

An interesting new paper published in the Journal of Community Psychology on the relationship between social support, stress, and psychological well-being in farmers can be freely viewed/downloaded here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

A selection of pictures from week 2 and 3 of the new Farmer’s Yards, social organisation for the farming community get together at Mountbellew Livestock Mart, Co. Galway can now be viewed on our Facebook page: facebook.com/media/set/?set…

Last night's Farmer's Yards social get together for the farming community at Mountbellew Livestock Mart included farmers having an interesting & informative Farm Health & Safety discussion with Pat Griffin, Senior Inspector for Agriculture, Forestry & Fishing at Health and Safety Authority 👨‍🌾🚜👩‍🌾🐄

We are glad to report that our EIP project is coming to a conclusion. Our operational group members met yesterday to evaluate the final report with key outcomes and recommendations. Our report will be published very soon.

You can still register for this year's International Farm Transition Network (IFTN) Annual Conference, taking place virtually next Thursday, June 22nd 2023, here: extension.sdstate.edu/event/internat… Prof. Matt Lobley, CRPR Exeter Uni, will be speaking about 30 years of farm succession research

Farmers participating in the ‘Younger Generation of Farmers Across Continents & Cultures’ panel at our upcoming conference have been announced! Teresa Roche, Teresa Roche/ kylemore farmhouse cheese.com 🇮🇪 James Small, Doitinwellies🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Christine Bender, Christine Bender 🇺🇸 Register: eventbrite.com/e/internationa…

Good physical & mental health are key in all sectors, including #agriculture A new Policy Insights article by the EU CAP Network illustrates how the #CAP can help improve the well-being of the EU's agricultural workforce & the wider rural population. See: bit.ly/3YmvqU8

The FARMWELL Project were represented at the recent BeSafe International Conference on Farm Safety & Farmer Health by Shane Conway Researchers from across Europe, USA & Australia discussed attitudes, practices & behaviours towards farm safety at this event, hosted by Teagasc.

An overview of an important new study from Sweden entitled 'Farmers' psychosocial work environment and mental health', by Peter Lundqvist, Carita Håkansson & Karin Hakelius from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences can be viewed here: publications.slu.se/?file=publ/sho… 🇸🇪🇪🇺

Our EIP is now complete. The report will be officially launched in Dublin tomorrow. Full details on our website farmsuccession-EIP.ie and social media outlets tomorrow.

Our final report was launched yesterday by ⁦Martin Heydon⁩ Thank you to all participants and funding by ⁦Dept of Agriculture, Food and the Marine⁩ and EIP Agri. Farmer participants met group experts and health&wellbeing experts to assist Carroll Consultancy farmsuccession-eip.ie/project-report…

It's your last chance to sign up for the Final Conference of FARMWELL on farmers' wellbeing here: bit.ly/FW-Final-Reg. Join us for this event on 12-13 Dec 2023 in Leuven Partners will share experiences on farmers' social challenges, inspiring social innovations & much more!

FARMWELL's Final Event (also held online: bit.ly/46GpKqD) will feature an engaging 'talkshow' on our 6-episode social innovations film series🎥(bit.ly/411YL7s) on empowering individual farmers, farmers' cooperation, social farms, mental health services & more!🇪🇺

Digital Advisory tools which can be shared, avoiding that everybody reinvents the wheel. Useful in #AKIS strategies to support advisors

Deadline for applying in 4 days. We'd love to see and share your great work, thank you #EIP #Operationalgroups,🎖️🚀🎁🎆💥

The next IFTN Training Session features Breian Carroll, Managing Director of Carroll Consultancy & Secretary-General of Ireland’s Agricultural Consultants Association (ACA), who will present the Béal Átha na Muice Farm Succession/Well Being EIP Farm Succession & Wellbeing European Project he led 🇺🇸🇮🇪 Register here: extension.sdstate.edu/event/internat… #EIPAgri

Great to see 3 locally-led, farmer-centred Irish projects shortlisted for the #EIPAgri Innovation Awards 2024 -SUAS (Sustainable Uplands Agri-environment Scheme) -Illaun Farm-Forest Alliance -BRIDE (Biodiversity Regeneration in a Dairying Environment) Vote eu-cap-network.ec.europa.eu/campaign/eip-a…