The main objective of the 3rd European Forum on Rural Development was to exchange and analyse policies, insights and best practices aiming at answering the following question: What kind of rural development should we promote to tackle food insecurity and hunger? This general objective can be broken down into three more specific objectives: To promote exchanges between policy and practitioners, linking rural development policies and their implementation, and informing the wider policy debate with practical experiences and empirical evidence To share experiences on key issues (e.g. social transfers, agro-ecological approaches, land policies, territorial development, gender) where rural development has achieved results in fighting against rural poverty and hunger. To build networks of rural development practitioners, bridge stances of stakeholders in rural development / food security and thereby facilitate development effectiveness