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ISET PI became a member of the Georgian Alliance on Agricultural and Rural Development (GAARD) on June 9th. The GAARD was established in 2014, and includes people from the Ministry of Agriculture, academic institutions, non-governmental organizations and independent experts.
The GAARD is a civil society mechanism which aims at:
Joint policy advocacy and lobbying
Research and evidence building to feed the relevant policy dialogue, identify policy needs and create analytical information database
Monitoring and evaluation of the implemented policies.
There are 5 different working groups in GAARD: (i) Food Security, (ii) Access to Services, (iii) Access to Finance, (iv) Cooperation and Smallholder farmers, and (v)Environment and Diversity and Land Usage Group.
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On June 3 2016, a Round Table Discussion of Tea Cooperatives was held in Kutaisi. This was the third event in a series of dialogues about agriculture and rural development in Georgia organized by ISET Policy Institute (ISET-PI) in partnership with CARE International, the Regional Development Association and the Georgian Farmers Association, with support from the European Neighbourhood Programme for Agriculture and Rural Development (ENPARD).
This meeting, which was a continuation of the Tea Forum held in July 2015, aimed to facilitate discussion among a variety of stakeholders of the State Program of Tea Plantation Rehabilitation, called “Georgian Tea”.
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