Iman BootGent, 26 August 2008

iman.boot@ec.europa.eu

European Policies for Rural Development

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Rural Development Policy

Political background

Adaptation Biodiversity / environment / climate change

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Rural Development Policy

Strategic approach

National / Regional programmes Axis 1 – competitiveness Axis 2 – environment and countryside Axis 3 – quality of life / diversification Axis 4 – governance / capacity building

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Does it work?

Political level

Value for money

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Axis 3 – quality of life and diversification

Why is it important?

Why the link to agriculture?

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DG AGRI and Modelling

Several datasets and models available for commodity production

Failure to develop modelling tools for rural development

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What do we want?

Instruments that demonstrate the usefulness or uselessness or instruments

Tools to compare the implementation in different countries and regions

Tools that we can use to communicate the benefits of our policy

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Thank you for your attention