International meeting “Multifunctional agriculture and rural development I” dedicated to “rural communities” was organized by Institute of Agricultural Economics in cooperation with Mali Zvornik Municipality, Agricultural Faculties from Novi Sad and Zemun, Faculty of Economy from Subotica, Institute of Economic Sciences from Belgrade, Academy of Economic Sciences from Bucharest (Romania), Institute of Agricultural Economics from Bucharest (Romania), Institute for Agricultural and Food Economy from Warsaw (Poland), Banat University of Agricultural Sciences from Timisoara (Romania) and Balkan Environment Association (B.EN.A.) (Greece), in Mali Zvornik, with participation of 131 domestic and foreign authors from 7 countries, who represented 71 scientific paper. The papers were published in thematic issue of the journal “Ekonomika poljoprivrede”.

Themes of the meeting were:

• rural development and local rural communities,
• association of enterprises and individual producers in clusters,
• role of the cooperatives for rural development of local communities,
• urbanization of village,
• organic production,
• employment and construction of new machineries,
• tourism development, as multidiscipline economic activity.