Links
European Commission
- European Commission: Rural Development Policy 2007-2013 on Europa
- Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development on Europa
- Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities on Europa
- Directorate-General for Energy on Europa
- Directorate-General for Enlargement on Europa
- Directorate-General for Enterprise on Europa
- Directorate-General for Environment on Europa
- Directorate-General for Health and Consumers on Europa
- Directorate-General for Regional Policy on Europa
- Directorate-General for Research on Europa
- European Commission’s Climate Action services on Europa
- European Commission: FARNET - Fisheries on Europa
European Parliament
European Economic and Social Committee
Committee of the Regions
European organisations
Members of DG AGRI Advisory Group on rural development / ENRD Coordination committee / LEADER subcommittee
- Assembly of European Regions
- Birdlife International
- Council of European Municipalities and Regions
- Confederation of European Forest Owners
- Committee of Professional Agricultural Organisations - General Committee for Agricultural Cooperation in the European Union
- European Federation of Trade Unions in the Food, Agriculture and Tourism sectors
- European Landowners Organisation
- European Association for Development of Mountain Territories
- PREPARE Network
- Rurality-Environment-Development International Association
- European LEADER Association for Rural Development
- European Council of Young Farmers
Other members of DG AGRI Advisory Group on rural development
- FACE
- IFOAM
- Eurogîtes
- CELCAA
- Crédit Agricole
- FoodDrinkEurope
- BEUC
- BEE/EEB
- Forum for Nature
- WWF
- APURE
- AEIAR
- ECOVAST
- CRPM
- ARGE
Others
International organisations
- United Nations Public-Private Alliance for Rural Development
- FAO - Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development (SARD) Initiative
- OECD Work on Rural Development
- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
- World Trade Organisation – Agriculture Gateway
Research
Some EU-funded research projects on rural development
- ADAGIO ADAptation of AGriculture in European RegIOns at Environmental Risk under Climate Change
- AE-Footprint: The Agri-Environmental Footprint project which is focused on developing a common generic methodology for evaluating the effectiveness of European rural development agri-environmental schemes
- AGRINERGY: Bio energy research
- CAPRI-RD - Common Agricultural Policy Regionalised Impact - The Rural Development Dimension
- CEEC AGRI Policy
- COFAMI – Encouraging Collective Farmers Marketing Initiatives
- COST: Integrating innovation and development policies for the forest sector
- ENFA – European Non-Food Agriculture
- Euro-MARC - Mountain Agrofood products in Europe, their consumers, retailers and local initiatives
- FARO-EU: Foresight analysis of rural areas of Europe
- FORESTUR PROJECT: Tourism training research initiative
- IMPACT: Studying the Socio-economic impact of rural development policy
- INSIGHT PROJECT: Studying rural innovation
- PICCMAT: Policy change research project
- RAPIDO: Innovation and knowledge transfer in rural areas
- RUDI – Assessing the impact of Rural Development Policies
- RUFUS: The Rural Future Network
- CORDIS: Community Research and Development Information Service
- SOFAR: European project on Social Farming
- TERESA: Studying the types of interaction between environment, rural economy, society and agriculture in European regions
- TOP-MARD - TOwards a Policy model of Multifunctionality of Agriculture and Rural Development
EU Project databases
- EU Regional policy: Success stories – Rural development
- EU Research policy: CORDIS – Rural development
- EU LIFE Projects – Rural development
Other interesting links
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