The Institute of Agricultural Economics Belgrade, together with 35 domestic and foreign institutions was organized the international scientific meeting, which represented the results of the research on the project III – 46006 “Sustainable agriculture and rural development in terms of the Republic of Serbia strategic goals' implementation within the Danube region”, funded by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Serbia.
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Besides papers, as the result of the research on this project, there were also papers which were research results on other projects funded by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Serbia and Secretariat for Science of AP Vojvodina. Delivered papers were published in special issue of “ECONOMICS OF AGRICULTURE” journal.
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The meeting was held on 1-2nd December 2011 and the papers were systemized in four sections:
I INTEGRAL PROGRAMS OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES' RURAL ECONOMY DEVELOPMENT with 32 published papers,
II REGIONALIZATION OF RURAL AREAS with 17 published papers,
III CAPACITIES STRENGTHENING – NETWORKS OF LOCAL ACTORS, ADMINISTRATION, ENTREPRENEURS, EMPLOYEES with 27 published papers,
IV NEIGHBOURING PROGRAMS OF EU SUPPORT TO DEVELOPMENT OF AGRICULTURE, SME AND RURAL TOURISM – EXPERIENCES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR BORDER RURAL REGIONS' COOPERATION with 17 published papers.On the first day of the scientific meeting were presented the papers in main hall (I and IV sections) and small hall (II and III sections) and was held the Convention of the Balkan Scientific Association of Agrarian Economists. The evening was completed with visit to the monastery, tasting cracklings from Srem, along with mulled wine and rakia. After return to the hotel was organized ceremonial dinner.
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On the second day was held the presentation of the IAE publications, and then the meeting of researchers on the project ИИИ – 46006 “Sustainable agriculture and rural development in terms of the Republic of Serbia strategic goals' implementation within the Danube region”. The meeting was terminated by summing up impressions from the scientific meeting, where were exposing conclusions on its organization. The international scientific meeting has gathered 253 authors from 61 scientific and/or professional institutions and there have been published 93 papers. Besides the authors from Serbia, also were participated the authors from: Austria, Russia, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Republic of Srpska – BH, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italy and Moldova. Thirty six domestic institutions were presented their papers, 171 authors and 61 presented papers, as well as 25 institutions from abroad with 80 authors and 32 presented papers. The papers were presented by moderators, according to the following schedule:
• I section - Marijana Jovanović, Svetlana Roljević and Zoran Simonović;
• II section - Vesna Paraušić and Anton Puškarić;
• III section - Marko Jeločnik and Bojana Bekić;
• IV section - Velibor Potrebić and Predrag Vuković.
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The meeting has pointed out to a significance of sustainable agriculture and rural development, observing through a prism of events actuality. Domestic authors, as well as the authors from about ten European countries, were pointed out to the problems they were facing with and were exposing possible directions of agricultural development through regional cooperation strengthening; within can be recognized also tendencies applicable in the Republic of Serbia. Overall conclusion is that should hasten development of small agricultural producers and integrate them into Serbian agro-complex, as well as include them in market economy.