On October 17th at FAO Headquarters, SALSA will participate at a side event of the Committee on World Food Security entitled Strengthening Agricultural Innovation Systems for Family Farming: Multi-stakeholder processes to develop capacities to innovate for food and nutrition Continue reading →

Maria José Murciano, Coordinator of the Spanish Rural Development Network and member of the Council of ELARD has been attending last week the 2nd High-level Local and Regional Government Forum on Sustainable Development Goals and 2030 Agenda in Continue reading →

On 12 September, ELARD held a LEADER/CLLD seminar in Pärnu, Estonia, within the framework of European Rural Parliament theme work and as part of the international LINC conference. The primary goal of the seminar was to introduce the application of Continue reading →

ELARD/Minha Terra welcomed, from 3rd to 6th September, a Delegation of the China Association for International Exchange of Personnel (CAIEP), headed by Mr. XIA Bing, Deputy Director General of the Secretariat, in the framework of a cooperation mission. ELARD/Minha Terra Continue reading →

Radim Sršeň, Member of ELARD Council, is currently the rapporteur of the draft opinion “CoR’s contribution to the renewed Territorial Agenda, with special emphasis on community-led local development” that has been analysed, discussed and unanimously adopted by the Commission for Continue reading →

With a view to prepare the future of CLLD based on the experience of LAGs, Minha Terra designed a document of analysis and recommendations that has been supported and signed during the last one and a half month by over Continue reading →

In light of the beginning of the preparation of the next programming period, the European Committee of the Regions launched in October 2017 a coalition of entities and individuals who believe that the European Union’s Cohesion Policy has had positive Continue reading →

On the 21st of May 2019 more than 50 professionals from national ministries, research institutes, LAGs and other rural development institutions from all over the EU gathered in Brussels for the ENRD workshop “Combatting rural depopulation: creating new opportunities for Continue reading →