Sound and cohesively implemented rural development strategies: A missing link in Africa’s fight against poverty?

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Martin Tichaona Muchero ◽  
Charles L. Machethe
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Development Strategies ◽  
Missing Link

scholarly journals Sustainable Rural Development: Strategies, Good Practices and Opportunities

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 366
Author(s):  
Ana Nieto Masot ◽  
José Luis Gurría Gascón
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Development Strategies ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Sustainable Rural Development ◽  
Good Practices

In 2020, a special issue titled “Sustainable Rural Development: Strategies, Good Practices and Opportunities” was launched, in which 16 papers were published [...]

Why African rural development strategies must depend on small farms

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 39-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald F. Larson ◽  
Rie Muraoka ◽  
Keijiro Otsuka
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Development Strategies ◽  
Small Farms

scholarly journals One Village One Product (OVOP)—A Rural Development Strategy and the Early Adaption in Vietnam, the Case of Quang Ninh Province

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 4485 ◽  
Author(s):  
Long Hoang Thanh ◽  
Linh Ta Nhat ◽  
Hao Nguyen Dang ◽  
Thi Minh Hop Ho ◽  
Philippe Lebailly
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Development Strategies ◽  
Local People ◽  
Endogenous Development ◽  
Employment Opportunities ◽  
Basic Approach ◽  
Quang Ninh ◽  
Significant Attention

Agriculture and rural development has continuously been a hot debate and received significant attention from literature. In this context, endogenous development is considered to be basic approach for rural development strategies in many countries of which the Japanese model namely One Village One Product (OVOP) is a successful one. This paper studies the OVOP movement and analyzes its early adaption in Vietnam, the so-called One Commune One Product (OCOP). This question is addressed by reviewing the existing literature on OVOP following by a case study in Quang Ninh province, Vietnam. The results, reveal, in practice, despite some criticism, OCOP strategy in general generate employment opportunities, incomes; enhance creativity and capability of local people.

scholarly journals Variety in local development strategies and employment: LEADER programme in Andalusia

2019 ◽  
Vol 65 (No. 1) ◽  
pp. 43-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mercedes Rodriguez ◽  
Luis Miguel Sanchez ◽  
Eugenio Cejudo ◽  
Jose Antonio Camacho
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Rural Development ◽  
Development Policy ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Development Strategies ◽  
Rural Development Policy ◽  
Populated Region ◽  
Programming Period ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Action Groups

For the period 2007–2013 LEADER became the fourth axis of rural development policy. One of the main characteristics of LEADER is that it adopts a bottom-up approach. Local Action Groups (LAGs) have to define and implement area-based local development strategies (LDSs). In this paper, we examine the relationship between variety in the LDSs implemented by LAGs and employment safeguarding over the programming period 2007–2013 in Andalusia, the most populated region of Spain. Firstly, we construct several indicators to capture differences in the number of projects carried out, the grants awarded, the investments made and the safeguarded employment. Secondly, we carry out an exploratory factor analysis. We use cluster analysis to classify LAGs applying similar LDSs. The results obtained show that there is no ideal strategy for employment safeguarding and that spending high amounts of money in a few numbers of projects does not guarantee success. Thus, most LAGs do not show any clear specialisation pattern but obtain moderate results in terms of employment safeguarding. This supports the idea that LAGs need to have sufficient flexibility to find a balance among the different objectives of the rural development policy and to translate this balance into the funding of projects.

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