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Agreement for the Establishment of a Centre on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development for the Near East

Document type
Multilateral
Field of application
Regional/restricted
Date
Sep 28, 1983
Source
IUCN (ID: TRE-001118)
Title (French)

Accord portant création d'un Centre régional de réforme agraire et de développement rural pour le Proche-Orient

Title (Spanish)

Acuerdo sobre el Establecimiento de un Centro Regional de Reforma Agraria y Desarrollo Rural para el Cercano Oriente

Place of adoption
Rome
Depository
FAO Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN
Language
Arabic, English, French
Entry into force
Dec 30, 1987
Subject
Food & nutrition, Agricultural & rural development
Abstract

Objective: To facilitate programs relating to agrarian reform and rural development through regional cooperation.

Summary of provisions: The Contracting Parties establish a Regional Centre on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development for the Near East (art. I.1). The objectives of the Centre include: assisting national action, stimulating regional cooperation, fostering the exchange of ideas and experience and encouraging joint or collaborative activities. The Centre is also to assist national action and to promote regional cooperation with the aim of improving the production, income and living conditions of small scale farmers and other needy rural groups (art. I.2). To achieve these objectives, the Centre is to conduct, promote or assist research on various aspects of integrated rural development, to hold consultative conferences, to organise training courses, to provide technical assistance and to serve as a clearinghouse and data bank for information (art. I.3).

Institutional mechanisms: The Centre is to have a Governing Council consisting of all Member States (art IV and V), an Executive Committee (art. VI) and Technical Advisors (art. VII). Moreover, the Centre shall have a Director to direct the work of the Centre in accordance with the policy and decisions adopted by the Governing Council and under the guidance of the Executive Committee (art. VIII).

(Source: IUCN ELC, 08.2005)

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Iraq -
Jordan -
Lebanon - -
Mauritania - -
Morocco - -
Pakistan -
Sudan - -
Syrian Arab Republic -
Tunisia - -
Yemen -

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