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Agricultural Policy Forum 2010: SEE facing the challenge of EU compliance – HOW TO BRIDGE THE GAP IN THE AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT?
The Agricultural Policy Forum 2010 which is just about to happen in Dresden, Germany (October 27th – 30th) will be the 10th in the series of events established in 2001 in order to facilitate policy decision making in SEE.
Executives and decision makers from ministries, governmental and non-governmental organizations from the agro-food sector and rural areas in SEE (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo (UNSCR 1244), Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia) as well as high-level representatives of relevant German and international policy and development institutions will discuss on policy settings and perspectives defined under the overall title: “Bridging the gap: Agricultural and rural policies in South Eastern Europe facing the challenge of EU compliance”
The overall objective of this year’s conference is to foster the implementation of EU-like agricultural and rural development policies in SEE with respect to a further integration of the region’s agricultural and rural sector into the EU.As a result of the open-mind discussions, the forum will formulate an agenda providing guidelines for suitable agricultural and rural development policies in SEE.
Organizers: InWEnt – Capacity Building International, Germany (InWEnt) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) in cooperation with Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe (IAMO) and SWG RRD.
The “SWG RRD” stands for Regional Rural Development Standing Working Group in South Eastern Europe and is an International Intergovernmental Organization, consisted of governmental institutions responsible for rural development in respective countries and territories. Its managing and coordinative body is the SWG Head OfficeSecretariat, based in Skopje, Macedonia
The SWG, as a platform for networking and regional co- operation, has been established during the Agricultural Policy Forum 2005 (“Rural Development Opportunities for Co-operation in the SEE”) held in Macedonia and Serbia in June 2005. The SWG is acting as per the conclusions of the Leipzig Agricultural Policy Forum and the adopted Agenda 2004 and the Declaration of the Ministers Responsible for Agriculture and Rural Development in South Eastern Europe signed in Dresden, November 2007.It was founded on the basis of a common wish to establish an organization for sustainable rural development in SEE. As an organization the SWG is a non-political body, acting in a spirit of friendship and good neighbourliness and enhances mutual respect and confidence, dialogue and cooperation among the Member Institutions.