Tackling rural poverty, together

Extract

This document reports the proceedings of the first European Forum on Rural Development Cooperation held in Montpellier, France on 4-6 September 2002. It is organised in two parts:

• Part 1 describes the organisation and processes of the forum, its objectives, outputs, results and next steps. It also reviews the main debates and conclusions of the forum.
• Part 2 provides detailed reports from the 22 different thematic sessions making up the forum. These include summaries of more than 100 different presentations, and numerous plenary and working group discussions. The reports have benefited greatly from the input of chairpersons and individual presenters, and provide a useful resource on current issues and latest thinking on a wide range of rural development topics.