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Importance of Animation Actions in the Operation of Hungarian Local Action Groups
Katona-Kovács, Judit; High, Chris; Nemes, Gusztáv - 2011
The EU LEADER initiative has been running for 20 years and plays an important role in the development of European rural …, the LEADER+ programme was launched in 2005 with an experimental phase (called a "LEADER type initiative") and has … the LEADER programme in eastern Hungary. The examined Local Action Groups face diverse challenges concerning human, social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494478
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Contributions of community based organisations to poverty alleviation in Oyo state, Nigeria
Odunola, Olutayo O.; Odunsi, Oluwafemi M. - In: Economic and environmental studies : a journal for … 17 (2017) 2, pp. 185-203
In Nigeria, Community Based Organisations (CBOs) have been involved in diverse development and poverty reduction programmes in many states. In Oyo State, their involvements have been evident for more than five decades now, a long time enough for their impacts to be readily felt, thus due for...
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Looking for PeripheRurality
Camaioni, Beatrice; Esposti, Roberto; Lobianco, Antonello; … - 2013
Rural areas still play a major role within the EU, as Europe is still a fairly rural continent. Moreover, EU rural areas are going through greater challenges and major transformations. After the Eastern enlargements of the EU (in 2004 and 2007), they are getting more and more heterogeneous, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010426659
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Rural areas between locality and global networks : local development mechanisms and the role of policies empowering rural actors : BAE 10th anniversary paper
Mantino, Francesco - In: Bio-based and applied economics 10 (2021) 4, pp. 265-281
The main objective of this work is to review the recent achievements on the mechanisms explaining local and rural development, which underpin the current definition of rural areas in the European literature. The analysis carried out in this article acknowledges a gap between local development...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013268103
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Importance of animation actions in the operation of Hungarian local action groups
Katona-Kovács, Judit; High, Chris; Nemes, Gusztáv - 2011
The EU LEADER initiative has been running for 20 years and plays an important role in the development of European rural …, the LEADER+ programme was launched in 2005 with an experimental phase (called a "LEADER type initiative") and has … the LEADER programme in eastern Hungary. The examined Local Action Groups face diverse challenges concerning human, social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009357267
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Efficient support of short food supply chains in Hungary : a spatial analysis
Benedek, Zsófia; Balázs, Bálint - 2015
There is an increasing political interest in Hungary to relocalize food. A Policy Intervention for Food Relocalization Index is introduced to quantitatively reveal how rural development programme measures should be allocated efficiently to promote local food production. Results show that present...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449901
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Distribution of Interventions of the Rural Development Programme and Regional Operational Programmes in 2007-2013 in the Context of Territorial Development
Chmieliński, Paweł - 2019
Making up for differences in the regional development is one of the main challenges facing the European Union in the context of the integration of European countries. Against this background, particularly visible are the relations among the EU sectoral policies, in this case (regional) cohesion...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012895266
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The EU Cohesion Policy in Context : Regional Growth and the Influence of Agricultural and Rural Development Policies
Crescenzi, Riccardo - 2014
This paper looks at the Cohesion Policy of the European Union (EU) and investigates how the EU agricultural and rural development policies shape its influence on regional growth. The analysis of the drivers of regional growth shows that the EU Regional Policy has a positive and significant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039777
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Going Beyond the Rural Development Programme : A Master Plan for Austria's Rural Areas in the Framework of the CAP
Klaus, Wagner - 2018
In each of the CAP periods the Austrian Rural Development Programmes have acquired a more integrative character. Starting with measures concerning farms, they have been enlarged with soil, biodiversity and water protection measures, then included also local developments, diversification beyond...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012916041
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Input for and output of local governance in rural development : Regional Studies Association, Annual Conference 2017: The Great Regional Awakening: New Directions, 4th – 7th June 2...
Pollermann, Kim; Raue, Petra; Schnaut, Gitta - 2017
for rural development. LEADER started 25 years ago and now has 2600 Local Action Groups (LAGs). These LAGs collaborate as … budgets to support projects. To examine the contributions of LEADER to local governance, we can present results from the ex … of governance arrangements like LEADER, the estimations of LAG-managers show that the most important factors are: commit …
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