Tbilisi. Persons interested in ecologically safe methodology of growing agricultural crops can get familiar with the work published by the Civil Society Institute (CSI) – "Poverty Reduction Models in Rural Areas". The work is based on the schemes and models applied in the projects implemented by CSI, which have contributed to significant improvement of economic conditions of farmers in extreme poverty. In addition, the publication includes specific proposals for introducing at a larger scale various models oriented on economic development.

As already noted, CSI has years of experience in this field. Back in 2005, CSI started working on projects aimed at reducing the poverty and promoting employment (as in urban, as well as in rural areas). Key priority of the five-year intensive program funded by OXFAM GB was to improve the living conditions of extremely poor population engaged in agriculture and to promote the rights of the employed. The program was implemented in the regions of high mountainous Adjara and Samegrelo. Later, the project was implemented through funding of the Eurasia Partnership Foundation, which aimed at teaching and demonstrating the production of agricultural crops through ecologically safe methodology in high mountainous Adjara. Based on the achieved results, an integrated technological-administrative model was established, which is oriented on reducing the adverse effect on environment during the agricultural production and increasing the output of agricultural crops. The work describes this very experience.