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The European Farm Succession project and this domain

Between 2016 and 2018 this domain hosted the results of a different European project. This page records what that project was, what it produced and how it relates to the present site.

FarmSuccession is not an official service and does not represent the administrations or organisations it links to.

Problem and objectives

The project responded to an ageing farming population, holdings without an identified successor and the difficulty faced by people entering farming from outside a farming family. The partners shared and adapted methods for family and extra-family transfer, and aimed to place generational renewal on the European policy agenda.

Countries and partners

Farm Succession in Europe was an Erasmus+ project (2014-2016), coordinated by FRCIVAM Bretagne with InterAFOCG in France, Terre-en-vue in Belgium, NEL in Austria and Land & Co / Landgilde in the Netherlands.

Principal results

The partners shared methods for family and extra-family transfer. Their main surviving output is a 52-page toolkit covering an eight-stage succession process and twelve practical tools, presented at the Brussels conference on 7 and 8 November 2016.

Original documents and preservation

Read the original 2016 toolkit (PDF, 3.9 MB)

The original toolkit has been recovered and is kept at the address it had, so links to it from elsewhere still work. No copy of the separate concept note or of the opening slides has been located, so their contents are not reconstructed here.

Relationship with the current site

The original project ended and the domain later lapsed. José Antonio Cano Trigueros registered it again in 2026 for this independent, non-commercial inventory. The current site is not a continuation of, and does not represent, the former consortium.

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