scholarly journals Differences Among Czech Local Action Groups In Using Selected Principles Of Leader

2015 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Pechrová ◽  
K. Boukalová
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
Rural Development ◽  
The Other ◽  
Local Action ◽  
Second Step ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Individual Features ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Action Groups

Abstract Local Action Groups (LAGs) are implementing LEADER principles in rural development. The aim of the paper is to create a typology of LAGs in the Czech Republic according to the factors linked to the individual features of LAG and to its organizational background. Four different groups of LAGs emerged: ‘stabilized’, ‘experienced’, ‘absorbing’, and ‘well-informed’. In the second step, it is assessed how particular groups fullfil selected features of the LEADER: knowledge transfer and bottomup approach. We conclude that ‘stabilized’ and ‘experienced’ LAGs, which are functioning for longer time and LAGs’ manager has longer experiences with LAG operation, have better knowledge transfer than those ‘absorbing’ or ‘well-informed’. This suggests that the rural development is realized by the so-called ‘project class’. On the other hand, the most active people cooperating with LAG management are in ‘experienced’ and ‘absorbing’ groups.

scholarly journals The Technical Efficiency of Local Action Groups: a Czech Republic Case Study

2017 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
pp. 1065-1074 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iveta Vrabková ◽  
Pavel Šaradín
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Technical Efficiency ◽  
Comprehensive Evaluation ◽  
Local Action ◽  
Economic Returns ◽  
Evaluation Tool ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
The One ◽  
Action Groups

Local Action Groups (LAGs) represent a dynamic platform for inter-municipal cooperation in Europe. Their principal advantages include EU funding and the capacity to generate economic returns and stimulate the development of local communities. The methodology used for the evaluation of the performance of LAGs is defined by the EU on the one hand and by national authorities on the other. Furthermore, there are an entire array of evaluation tools and academic experiments available. The present paper does not aim at a comprehensive evaluation of LAGs, but instead only examines the technical efficiency of LAGs. Using the Czech Republic as an example, the paper introduces an evaluation tool to measure the technical efficiency of LAGs and describes how it can be applied. The adoption of this tool is seen as a means of improving one of the parameters of the performance of LAGs.

scholarly journals Limiting factors in the field of business activities in rural tourism

2008 ◽  
Vol 53 (No. 9) ◽  
pp. 421-431 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Ryglová
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Rural Population ◽  
Rural Tourism ◽  
The Other ◽  
Limiting Factors ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Tourist Infrastructure ◽  
The Individual

This paper deals with problems of rural tourism development. The works is focused on researching the situation in the area of rural tourism in the Czech Republic, on understanding the attitudes of entrepreneurial sphere and rural population to this entrepreneurship and mainly on the determination of limiting factors that prevent this form of tourism from a more distinctive development. Rural tourism in the Czech Republic is still in the initiating stage of its development and it is not as developed as in some countries in West Europe. This goal has been reached with the help of primary questionnaire inquiry among business and agricultural subjects in rural areas in the individual regions and the detail results of this questionnaire inquiry are enclosed to the following paper. These identified factors were mainly insufficient financial means and at the same time insufficient state assistance connected with this. Insufficient awareness of this support as well as its inaccessibility for small business appears to be a difficulty, too. From the other obstacles, we can mention the current legislation system, bureaucracy, the state of communication and tourist infrastructure, fears of neighbours’ intolerance and losing privacy and also unfamiliarity and little experience.

scholarly journals Tracing shift in Czech rural development paradigm (Reflections of Local Action Groups in the media)

2016 ◽  
Vol 62 (No. 4) ◽  
pp. 149-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Boukalova ◽  
A. Kolarova ◽  
M. Lostak
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Development Policy ◽  
Local Action ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Paradigmatic Shift ◽  
Quantitative Content ◽  
The Media ◽  
Development Paradigm ◽  
Action Groups ◽  
The Eu

Local Action Groups (LAG) as actors in the EU rural development policy reflect the endogenous paradigm. They utilize the cooperation of their members and social networks to achieve the goals defined in their strategies developed upon the EU regulations on rural development. The paper demonstrates how the printed Czech media reflect the activities of LAGs. Such research gives a background to answer the question if the references to LAGs in the Czech Republic highlight the paradigmatic shift from the material factors towards the endogenous or hybrid resources embedded in using the intangible factors for development. The research consists in the quantitative content analysis of 498 articles about Czech local action groups. The analysis indicates that paradigmatic shift is only at the beginning. LAGs activities are still reported to be embedded in using the material factors (exogenous approach) instead of reporting and accounting the endogenous resources composed of both material and non-material factors of rural development.

scholarly journals Leaderand Rural Differentiation: Czech Republic (2007–2013)

2018 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 293-301
Author(s):  
Jiří Novosák ◽  
Oldřich Hájek ◽  
Joanna Górska-Szymczak ◽  
Jana Novosáková
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Local Action ◽  
Environmental Characteristic ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
Programming Period ◽  
Urban Characteristics ◽  
Action Groups

The goal of this paper is to reveal the socioeconomic and environmental characteristic differences between supported and unsupported Local Action Groups (LAGs) from the LEADER programme in the Czech Republic in the programming period 2007 – 2013. Hence, the associations between the LEADER programme and rural differentiation in the Czech Republic are explored. The results of this study point out that highly rural and disadvantaged LAGs were supported significantly more often, while LAGs with strong urban characteristics and growing suburban LAGs were supported significantly less often in the LEADER programme. Two crucial dimensions of rural differentiation in the Czech Republic were tackled by LEADER, namely rural aspects and socioeconomic disadvantages. This study consequently shows that LAGs may be a highly relevant place-based instrument that compensates for urban-rural gradient and socioeconomic disadvantages of rural areas.

scholarly journals LEADER in the Czech Republic and farming sector

2008 ◽  
Vol 54 (No. 12) ◽  
pp. 555-566 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Hudečková ◽  
M. Lošťák
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Democratic Governance ◽  
Local Action ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Sector Type ◽  
Available Information ◽  
Action Groups ◽  
The Eu

The paper addresses the LEADER approach in the Czech Republic. Using documentary research and content analysis of the appropriate documents and the Local Action Groups information sheets, the paper firstly outlines the evolution of the LEADER approach in the Czech Republic (the paper points out the difference in understanding LEADER in the EU /focusing on capacity building and the use of intangible forms of capital/ and in the Czech Republic EU /focusing on investments/). The paper also analyses the participation of farmers and the farming related actors in the LEADER approach (approx. 30% of local action groups are composed by those actors, however, they mostly do not aim /similarly like non-farming actors/ at developing partnership but want to achieve the investments into production; that is why the Czech local action groups are rather quasi-partnerships; it is also reflected in a very low number of strategies aiming at the “adding value to local products” which is the closest to farmers /but it is the less opted theme: only 6% of projects/). The paper ends with the analysis of projects implemented under the LEADER scheme where the farmers participate. It shows that more than the integrated strategies, the Czech local action groups prefer the strategies of the multi-sector type. The paper also points out that the publicly available information about the activities of the local action groups is not sufficient, although the groups are funded from the public budgets. This fact makes the analysis more difficult as for the scientific merit but also contradicts the principles of democratic governance.

scholarly journals   The role of farmers in Local Action Groups: The case of the national network of the Local Action Groups in the Czech Republic

2012 ◽  
Vol 58 (No. 9) ◽  
pp. 433-442 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Delin
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Development Programme ◽  
Local Action ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
National Network ◽  
Rural Development Programme ◽  
The Social ◽  
Action Groups

The social inclusion of different rural population groups is one of the objectives of the Rural Development Programme of the Czech Republic for the period of 2007–2013. The fourth axis of this programme is devoted to the LEADER method and, as such, it establishes and supports an inclusive and participative bottom-up approach. This article is concerned especially with a specific social group of farmers and agricultural entrepreneurs, and the position of this group in the local action groups that constitute the National Network of the Local Action Groups (LAGs) in the Czech Republic. With regard to this subject, the role of farmers and agricultural entrepreneurs in LAGs was analysed using a questionnaire-based survey and testing a hypothesis of external and internal inclusion/exclusion (see Thuesen 2010) of farmers into/from local action groups. The results show that the level of participation differs in the local action groups, but generally speaking the position of agricultural subjects is decreasing off the subjects from the different spheres (especially NGOs).

scholarly journals Do the Czech Local Action Groups Respect the LEADER Method?

2015 ◽  
Vol 63 (5) ◽  
pp. 1769-1777 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hana Svobodová
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Development Programme ◽  
Local Action ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Rural Development Programme ◽  
History Of ◽  
Programming Period ◽  
Action Groups

The article introduces activities of local action groups (LAGs) in the Czech Republic. Attention is focused on the history of LAGs, evaluation of LAGs’ activities in the 2007–2013 period and preparation for the 2014–2020 period. Although this period has already started, drawing on subsidies is still lagging behind. Evaluation of LAGs is based on a questionnaire survey among LAGs, information on grants from “Axis 4 – Leader” of Rural Development Programme for the period 2007–2013, content analysis of several Strategies of Community Led Local Development prepared for the current programming period and experience from the creation of several Strategies. The paper also identifies problems of the LAGs (not only in the Czech Republic) and suggestions how to avoid them in the recent programming period.

scholarly journals Incidence of Characteristic Findings during Veterinary Carcass Inspections 2010–2019 in the Czech Republic and the Relation to the Level of Health and Welfare of Individual Classes of Cattle

Animals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 537
Author(s):  
Michal Kaluza ◽  
Vladimir Vecerek ◽  
Eva Voslarova ◽  
Zbynek Semerad ◽  
Annamaria Passantino
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Pathological Findings ◽  
Pathological Changes ◽  
Great Intensity ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Stunted Growth ◽  
Liver And Pancreas ◽  
Systemic Disorder ◽  
The Individual

Pathological findings in individual classes of cattle were assessed from the viewpoint of their localization and category. The objective of the study was to evaluate whether there are differences in the range and number of findings made between the individual classes of cattle. The results of veterinary inspections on 2,514,666 head of cattle slaughtered in the Czech Republic in the period 2010–2019 were used for the assessment. In terms of localization, the most frequent findings in cows were in the liver and pancreas (46.13%), the urinary tract (40.76%) and the lungs (36.23%). These findings also predominated in heifers and bulls, though they were recorded at lower frequencies (p < 0.01) than in cows. The most frequent pathological changes in heifers and bulls were chronic findings in the lungs (16.09% and 12.27%, respectively). The range of findings in calves differed significantly from other classes of cattle, primarily as the result of respiratory and diarrheal syndrome being the most frequent diseases in calves. Calves were the class of cattle most frequently diagnosed with findings in the lungs (44.89%), as well as other unclassified changes (24.43%) and overall changes (21.55%), which point to a systemic disorder of the organism. The results of this study confirmed the differing states of health in the individual classes of cattle and the differing health issues to which treatment and the prevention of the most frequently occurring infectious and non-infectious diseases must be adapted. Cattle welfare is affected not only by the level of health but also by the herd management and economics. This is confirmed by the range of findings, and the deterioration of living conditions especially in cows, likely because of great intensity of farming, but also in calves which suffered from emaciation or stunted growth.

scholarly journals Assessment of the Readiness and Resilience of Czech Society against Water-Related Crises

Hydrology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
Štěpán Kavan ◽  
Šárka Kročová ◽  
Jiří Pokorný
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Swot Analysis ◽  
Multicriteria Analysis ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Comparison Method ◽  
Internal Environment ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Triangle Method ◽  
Czech Society ◽  
The Individual

This assessment of societal readiness and resilience to water-related situations in the Czech Republic focuses on an interdisciplinary approach in the Czech Republic for solving this problem. The goal of the article is to evaluate and characterize the preparedness for handling water-related crises. The analysis is carried out via a SWOT analysis, which is a universal analytical method used to understand and interpret strengths and weaknesses and to identify opportunities and threats. For the calculation of the weight factor of the SWOT analysis, an assessment was determined based on the multicriteria analysis. The pair comparison method was used to determine the relative importance of the parameters of the strengths and weaknesses, opportunities and threats. The Fuller Triangle method was chosen for the system used to make the comparisons of the individual criteria. The uniqueness of the study consists of the issue of water management, which is thus reflected from a non-traditional perspective, being a contemporary model—the paradigm of the view on the preparedness of the planning documentation as one of the characteristics of societal resilience for water-related crises. The result of the research is the fact that a positive approach prevails in the researched area from the perspective of preparedness for water-related crises. For the creation of the conditions, the factors arising from the internal environment currently prevail slightly over those arising from the external environment.

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