New Entrant netWork: Business models for Innovation
This time, the German Newbie Award goes to “Grow Up Salicornia GbR”. The salt plant “Salicornia Europaea” contains valuable nutrients and tastes spicy. “Grow Up Salicornia GbR” is Germany’s first regional grower of fresh salicornia. The founders of the start-up are Ken Dohrmann and Julian Engelmann. Together, the two founded their company in 2020. The […]
On 26th of September 2021, Germany will elect its 20th federal parliament. While many issues need fast political reaction, like steering Germany through the ongoing Covid19 pandemic, the agricultural sector and especially young farmers need reliable long-term policy. The German Rural Youth Association (BDL – Bund der Deutschen Landjugend e.V.) has been advocating for the […]
The search for a farm as well as the search for a farm successor poses a similar problem to different people: How do I find a suitable person/farm? The initiative hofnachfolger-nrw.de from Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia tries to solve this problem. It is an association of rural youth, the Chamber of Agriculture of North Rhine-Westphalia and […]
This week the NEWBIE team for the UK held their penultimate Steering Group meeting (online). We began with a fascinating update from each steering group member on their recent work involving new entrants. Then there was a vibrant conversation about potential policy recommendations in terms of widening out the land matching service, mentoring schemes and […]
On 23rd February 2021, around 40 interested Newbies joined an interactive web seminar on “Conversion to organic agriculture” using the conference tool Zoom. After the preceding “Digital Agricultural Office” on 2nd February 2021, BDL (German Rural Youth Association) collaborated once more with the BLE (Federal Office for Agriculture and Food, Germany) to host an informational […]
On 2nd February 2021, 275 interested participants logged in to listen to and participate in an interactive web seminar on the “Digital Agricultural Office”. Since 2019, BDL (German Rural Youth Association) has supported the BLE (Federal Office for Agriculture and Food, Germany) in hosting a series of informational web seminars. Previous topics covered a broad […]
