Informal Consultation Meeting for the preparation of the 29th ERC and the 38th Session of the ECA

Chisinau, Moldova, 17 December 2013

In preparation for the 29th ERC and the 38th Session of the ECA, which will be held from 1 – 4 April 2014 in Bucharest, Romania a Second Informal Consultation will be organized by the Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia.

Online registration: https://www.regonline.com/FAO-IC2013-Moldova

Registration is for invited participants only.

Deadline for registration: 12 December.

Stronger cooperation with the Eurasian Economic Commission

Tony Alonzi, acting FAO Regional Representative for Europe and Central Asia and Sergey Sergeevitch Sidorsky Member of the Board and Minister for Industry and the Agro-industrial Complex of the Eurasian Economic Commission signed a Memorandum of Understanding.

The aim is to support the member countries of Eurasian Economic Commission in their efforts to harmonize their policies. In particular there it is intended to inter alia collaborate in the areas of food security, climate change, rural development and trade integration in the Region.

12 November 2013, Budapest, Hungary

New volumes in the REU Policy Studies on Rural Transition:

• Association of farmers in the Western Balkan countries
• Сельскохозяйственная обслуживающая кооперация в Украине
• Agriculture and Rural Cooperation - Examples from Armenia, Georgia and Moldova
• Cooperative development in Central Asia
• Agricultural cooperatives in Israel
• An overview of cooperatives in Turkey