New challenges for rural development in Vaslui County (North-Eastern Romania)

The aim of this article is to present the results of a project implemented in Romania between December 2006 and March 2008. The project entitled “Study Regarding the Prospective Valuation of the Socio-Economic Development of the Rural Space in Vaslui County” was driven by the Vaslui County Directorate of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in order to establish the local policy for promoting and approaching the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD). There were elaborated 84 studies for 81 communes, 1 city and 2 towns with rural areas. The studies highlighted the particularities of each community and the trends for their rural development