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Community Organizations FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia
FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia
FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia
Acronym
FAO Europe & Central Asia
United Nations Agency

Location

34 Benczur utca H-1068
Budapest
Hungary

FAO’s Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia – located in Budapest, Hungary – provides and coordinates FAO policy and technical assistance to Member Countries in the Region.


The Regional Office is also responsible for preparing the biennial FAO Regional Conference for Europe, where Member Countries establish priorities FAO’s work in the region.


Extending from Lisbon to Vladivostok and from the Arctic Circle to the Pamir Mountains of Central Asia, no region is more vast or diverse than FAO’s Europe and Central Asia region.


With 53 Member Countries and one Member Organization (the European Union), the region’s food and agriculture challenges range from cooperation on capture fisheries to improving nutrition levels, from coping with livestock diseases to getting reliable agricultural census data, from cleaning up and managing obsolete pesticides to setting up protocols to make sure food is safe to eat, from conserving crop genetic resources to expanding access to lucrative international markets.


More than half the region’s countries are members of the European Union or candidates for accession to the EU. Since 1990, many of the national economies have been transitioning to greater market orientation and private ownership of farms and agri-business. Historically, the region has been home to several “breadbasket” zones, with significant production of grains in addition to fruit, vegetables, meat and fish. Hardwood and evergreen forests cover extensive parts of the region, calling for management techniques that use forest resources without using them up.

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Resources

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Analysis of the Forest Sector in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Reports & Research
November, 2015
Slovenia
Serbia
France
North Macedonia
Slovakia
United States of America
Croatia
Germany
Austria
Iceland
Switzerland
Romania
Belgium
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Turkey
Albania
Italy
Hungary
Montenegro
Europe

This is one of the seven sector analyses (Meat and Dairy; Fruit and vegetables; Cereals; Wine; Diversification, Fishery and Aquaculture, and Forestry) that have been prepared since spring 2011 for the agricultural authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina at state, entity and Brčko District level. The sector analyses are inputs to the design of measures to be financed under the European Union (EU) Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance for Rural Development (IPARD), once available, as well as for the design of the country’s policies interventions in general.

Cooperative development in Central Asia

Journal Articles & Books
November, 2013
Turkmenistan
Switzerland
Spain
Israel
Turkey
Sweden
Ukraine
Denmark
Ireland
Canada
Moldova
Japan
Tajikistan
Kyrgyzstan
Uzbekistan
Netherlands
Hungary
Kazakhstan
Georgia
Armenia
Asia

This paper was prepared within the “Cooperatives and their alternatives” component of the Agrarian Structures Initiative (ASI) which a regional program of FAO in Europe and Central Asia. The purpose of this paper is to introduce Central Asian policy makers to the Western paradigm of service cooperative and to explore the constraints – both physical and ideological – to faster development and acceptance of cooperatives. We also discuss the need for a complete reorientation of the government’s approach to cooperative development.

Cooperative development in Central Asia

Journal Articles & Books
November, 2013
Turkmenistan
Switzerland
Spain
Israel
Turkey
Sweden
Ukraine
Denmark
Ireland
Canada
Moldova
Japan
Tajikistan
Kyrgyzstan
Uzbekistan
Netherlands
Hungary
Kazakhstan
Georgia
Armenia
Asia

This paper was prepared within the “Cooperatives and their alternatives” component of the Agrarian Structures Initiative (ASI) which a regional program of FAO in Europe and Central Asia. The purpose of this paper is to introduce Central Asian policy makers to the Western paradigm of service cooperative and to explore the constraints – both physical and ideological – to faster development and acceptance of cooperatives. We also discuss the need for a complete reorientation of the government’s approach to cooperative development.

Cooperative development in Central Asia

Journal Articles & Books
November, 2013
Turkmenistan
Switzerland
Spain
Israel
Turkey
Sweden
Ukraine
Denmark
Ireland
Canada
Moldova
Japan
Tajikistan
Kyrgyzstan
Uzbekistan
Netherlands
Hungary
Kazakhstan
Georgia
Armenia
Asia

This paper was prepared within the “Cooperatives and their alternatives” component of the Agrarian Structures Initiative (ASI) which a regional program of FAO in Europe and Central Asia. The purpose of this paper is to introduce Central Asian policy makers to the Western paradigm of service cooperative and to explore the constraints – both physical and ideological – to faster development and acceptance of cooperatives. We also discuss the need for a complete reorientation of the government’s approach to cooperative development.