Focusing on the demands of the new innovative, sustainable and inclusive rural development paradigm, the monograph raises the discussion regarding new approaches and success factors that are vital in current rural socio-economic development and policy transformations. The bottom-up policymaking,...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: New Social Movements: Theories and Approaches -- Chapter 3: Social Movements as Drivers of Paradigm Innovations in Rural Development -- Chapter 4: Actors of New Rural Social Movements as Agents of Change -- Chapter 5: Rural Paradigm Shift and New Social...

Although the history of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is dominated by a process of centralisation, growing pressures to integrate agri-environmental problems into the CAP have revealed the need to embrace decentralised approaches in an efficient federal structure. Indeed, in recent years...

Der Weltentwicklungsbericht 2008 geht der Frage nach, welchen Beitrag die Agrarwirtschaft zur Entwicklung leisten kann. Drei von vier Menschen in Entwicklungsländern leben auf dem Land und die Existenz der meisten hängt direkt oder indirekt von der Agrarwirtschaft ab. Der Bericht bietet einen...