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Herbs, Health
and Politics
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MONIKA
PAKOT
“W
hy would you pick a place should take place in the spaces we communities, the rural population
like this for a European associate with ‘Europe’ i.e. urban, needs to be seated at that table.
gathering?” asked a journalist, gazing Western centres. Even key decision- When thought of like that, the village
around our small Transylvanian making about rural issues and rural of Lupeni is actually the ideal place for
village, host to Forum Synergies’ lives are often made far from rural a gathering such as this one.
second European Herb Gathering areas. But for me, sustainable rural in 2018. The assumption was clear: development needs to be grounded terrain, a fact which spared it from
European gatherings of this nature in the real-world experiences of rural much industrialised agriculture:
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Transylvania is a mountainous