Rural areas

The globalization of the productive activities, the demands of the consumers more and more directed towards a high quality of the products and the enlargement of the European Union are just some of the realities and the challenges that the rural area and implicitly the agricultural sector at the level of the European Union. The changes affect not only agricultural markets, but also local economies in rural areas. The future of the agricultural sector is closely linked to the sustainable and balanced development of rural areas, which is why agriculture and rural policy play an important role in the cohesion of European territorial, economic and social policies.