Agriculture is no longer the dominant sector in rural economies in OECD countries. But it is still the key sector in managing the land, and many ancillary industries are dependant on agriculture. Both agricultural and rural policy are changing to respond to society's concerns regarding food...

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...

The article contains an overview of rural areas' functions according to different criteria and an analysis of changes of these functions in the context of rural areas' development. Declining role of agriculture with the growing role of other economic functions in these areas is accompanied by...

The objective of this paper is to analyse the rural sanitation and its need for sustainable Rural Development, with a view to awareness, acceptance and performance of the rural people in the uses of rural sanitation. Rural sanitation figures prominently in the National Agenda for governance. At...

The implementation of numerous programs/rural development strategies of local governments in Serbia depend partly from activities of local government, and partly from willingness of associations of physical persons and legal entities, cooperatives and other members of the LAG - to take steps to...

1 Introduction -- 2 Changing Trends in Rural Self-Employment in Europe and Turkey -- 3 A New Form of Small Industrial Business in Rural Area: To Exceeding the Local Roots? -- 4 The Modalities of Territorial Embeddedness of French Cooperative Groups -- 5 Strategies for Sustainable Regional...