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CHAPTER 11
13. Rural Moldova
14. Empowering rural stakeholders in the Western Balkans
Reaching out
to the Black Sea
rural development and are eligible cooperation between PREPARE and
for help from the EU in that process. rural organisations in the Black Sea
In 2016, as a sequel to its promotional countries. Aris Adlers of the Latvian
work in Central Europe and then in the Rural Forum, who became President
even further east, into the Black Sea. Balkans, PREPARE organised a six-day of PREPARE in 2018, has described
Of the 8 countries (other than Russia) travelling workshop in Armenia and the close links between PREPARE’s
which border or feed into the Black Georgia, on the lines of the founding partners in the Baltic countries and
Sea, two - Romania and Bulgaria - are event in Estonia and Sweden of 1999 those in the Black Sea, drawing upon
within the EU. The others - Armenia, but focused on the well-being of “the successful experience of the
Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Turkey small-farming communities. Baltic states in the process of change
The final part of this story brings us
and Ukraine - are all in the process
of pursuing national programmes for
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Building on that event, there
is now growing exchange and
from a centrally planned to a market
economy.”