Policy tools for the New Rural Development Paradigm

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2016 ◽  
Vol 62 (No. 4) ◽  
pp. 149-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Boukalova ◽  
A. Kolarova ◽  
M. Lostak

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.


Author(s):  
Sebeka Richard Plaatjie

This chapter departs from the premise that African problems demand not African solutions but solutions founded on the principles of African culture and philosophy. The chapter analyzes hegemonic Euro-American-centric ideas of development and rural development from the perspective of the African philosophy of ubuntu. This chapter per the author dismisses the idea of “rural development” because it argues that “rural” is an oxymoron in African culture and philosophy and thus a discourse of a colonial heritage. The chapter understands “rural development” as a narrow Euro-American-centric construction founded on the principles of economism and classism of the Western philosophical ethic and which, according to the chapter, needs decolonization through ubuntu. The chapter further suggests pathways towards an African “rural development” paradigm.


2010 ◽  
pp. 19-35
Author(s):  
Mario Solomone

L'articolo rimanda a fenomeni rilevanti e significativi della complessa relazione tra alimentazione e sostenibilitŕ e mette in rilievo la mutua influenza tra produzione e consumo alimentare, proponendo uno schema di fondo per descrivere le questioni in esame. L'articolo, infatti, declina la questione della "sostenibilitŕ" rispetto al variegato universo della produzione e del consumo alimentare. L'autore procede attraverso una ricognizione di differenti aspetti che coinvolgono la relazione tra sostenibilitŕ e contesto alimentare. In particolare il testo affronta: a) le trasformazioni dei consumi nel dopoguerra; b) il rapporto tra consumo e rischi alimentari; c) il ruolo del consumo critico e le trasformazioni del sistema alimentare in conseguenza dell'emergere delle forme di consumo "alternativo"; d) i contorni del "new rural development paradigm" e di un nuovo "approccio alimentare sostenibile". L'articolo insiste sul ruolo del cibo come connettore (tra esseri umani e natura, tra cittŕ e campagna), da un lato, e come aggregatore sociale (di relazioni, reti, movimenti), dall'altro.


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