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A Workshop "AgroWeb ALBANIA:
Agriculture and Forestry Related Information in Internet" was held in Tirana during
the period 5-9 November 2001. The Workshop is being organized by Ministry
of Agriculture and Food and Directorate General of Forestry and Pastures
with the Intermediation of FAO Sub-Regional Office for Europe (SEUR). The
financial support was provided through FAO-Czech Trust Fund while FAO
Project GCP/ALB/004/ITA "Technical Assistance to the Forestry Project"
provided organizational and logistic support.
A seminar on "Rural Development in Albania: Achievements and
Perspective" is
held on 22 October 2001 in Tirana. It was
organized by the Ministry of Agriculture and Food (under the auspice of Agriculture
Programme Office) and the World Bank financed Agriculture Services Project;
The Albanian Group responsible for the EU Accession's
Negociations is reorganized and strengthened. Now it is being led by Mr.
Seit Shallari, Secretary-General of Ministry of AGriculture and Food. By this, Albanian
government reconfirm again the importance of agriculture sector on the
overall weight of Albanian economy;
A Credit Agreement is going to be approved in
principle between Albanian Government and Islamic Bank for Development at
the amount of 8.8 million USD. This amount of financment is
intended to be used for rehabilitation of irrigation and
drainage system in Albania.
Autumn 2001 Fair: This fair was undergoing
during the period 11-17 October 2001. A special event of this
fair was the Day of Agriculture on 12 October 2001. High officials from
the Ministry of Agriculture held a Press Conference emphasising again not
only the support that the Albanian Government is being providing to the
private initiatives in agriculture sector but also the challenges that
policy-makers are facing in this respect.
Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Forestry of
Croatia in collaboration with FAO SEUR organized during the period
24-26 September 2001 a Training and Consultation Workshop on AgroWeb CEE.
FAO invited government representatives from CEE region in a
Project Formulation Workshop on Private and Community Forestry
Development: The workshop was held on Slovenia (Bled) on
17-20 September 2001. The
proposed regional programme was based on a TCP project successfully
implemented by FAO in Slovenia and is intended to strengthen the capacity
of forest services to enable them to provide effective forestry support to
the new forest smallholders and for community forestry. The Concept Note
for the proposed regional programme was developed some months ago,
circulated to CEE countries to get feedback from them, it was fine-tunned
during the workshop and it is expected to mee the specific requirements
each country of the CEE region has towards the private/community forestry
sector.
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