D5.1 Report on analysis on rural newcomers, new entrants into farming and successor in farming

This document presents the comparative analysis of the ten countries (Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Ireland, The Netherlands, Poland, Spain) Country Reports prepared by the Consortium partners based on the review of domestic literature, national data and statistics, supplemented with an analysis, at European level, of FADN Data and Eurostat Data on family farming and young farmers prepared by TEAGASC. The analysis has taken into account the results of the literature study, focusing on international publications and reports of European projects (Murthag et al, 2020a), realised in T3.1. This comparative report features the characteristics and summarizes the recent developments in rural newcomers, new entrants of farming and successors across the countries of the consortium. In chapter one, it analyses, firstly, the relevance and usefulness of the different data sources, and, secondly, analyses the statistical data on family farming. It is followed by chapter two, which compares the different meanings of ‘rural’, and the different understandings and conceptualisations of newcomers, new entrants to farming and successors in the countries compared