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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 …
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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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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...
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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...
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The present work discusses possible methodological approaches for the assessment of employment effects of rural development measures. A special focus is on measures of the so called integrated rural development. Methods that are considered non-appropriate are considered nevertheless. Therefore,...
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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
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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