Aligning Inner Peripheries with rural development in Italy: Territorial evidence to support policy contextualization

Toni, Andrea De; Vizzarri, Matteo; Febbraro, Mirko Di; Lasserre, Bruno; Tur, Joan Noguera; Martino, Paolo Di

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104899

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“…The importance of involving local communities in common development pathways leveraging on territorial specificities of rural areas (e.g., the heritage of natural resources and landscape and the traditions of typical agriculture) is generally understood [11]. Several authors recognized the fundamental contribution of the agrifood sector to the sustainable development of rural areas, indicating evolutionary paths of differentiation and integration able to produce long-lasting development [12,13]. More recent patterns of the agricultural sector evolution highlight structural changes on both the demand and the supply side.…”

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Agritourism and Sustainability: What We Can Learn from a Systematic Literature Review

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Scholars from different perspectives agree that agritourism can be the right tool to balance the needs of tourists with those of rural communities, offering real opportunities for economic and social development, while mitigating undesirable impacts on the environment. This paper aims to provide a holistic outlook of the different perspectives under which scientific literature deals with the topic of agritourism as a means to support the sustainable development of rural areas. To reach this aim, we performed a systematic review of the scientific literature in order to point out the linkages between agritourism and sustainability. We analyzed papers through a text mining solution based on the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) technique to point out the main topics around which the scientific literature on agritourism and sustainability has grown. Topics are further categorized in themes by means of an agglomerative hierarchical clustering procedure. Results are further analyzed to highlight the strengths and weaknesses of the current streams of the literature.

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“…Such changes include improvements in the standard of living of the area's inhabitants, as well as the functioning conditions for business entities [56]. Different outcomes of rural development depend on factors that stimulate such development, however, barriers that hinder and limit development must also be considered in this case [57]. Local and regional development theories consider the role of exogenous and endogenous factors.…”

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Role of Local Investments in Creating Rural Development in Poland

2021

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Poland’s rural areas are characterised by a significant degree of development diversity, especially in the case of communes—the smallest territorial units. For development to take place, the entity responsible for its creation must incur the necessary investment expenditures. By implementing the public tasks assigned to them, communes are responsible for ensuring sustainable local development, which indirectly affects regional development and shapes the development of the entire country. Therefore, this article aims to assess the level and diversity of rural commune investment activities and their impact on the development of Poland’s rural areas. The empirical research conducted was aimed at verifying the following hypothesis: “The highest investment activity can be observed primarily in rural communes located in Eastern Poland”. The Regions of Eastern Poland are characterised by their peripheral location, both in the country and all of the EU. The research covered the 2007–2018 period due to a particular increase in local investment projects thanks to such factors as obtaining EU funding, as well as others. The research included one- and multidimensional analyses of the phenomenon examined with the use of the TOPSIS method to obtain the value of the synthetic measure of the rural commune investment activity level. The designated investment activity classes were the basis for the analysis of their links with their location within the macroregion, as well as their socio-economic status. The research has shown that the most pro-investment municipalities are located primarily in the Southern and Eastern Macroregions while those spending the least on investment projects are situated in the North-Western and Northern Macroregions. Thus, the research hypothesis put forth in the article has been confirmed. This delimitation is due to additional state resources being provided to the less developed eastern areas of Poland. Citizens living in these regions can not only take advantage of the funding provided as part of the Regional Operational Programmes, but also the Eastern Poland Programme dedicated to helping them.

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“…The outflow of rural labour to urban areas jeopardises sustainability and increases the number of abandoned villages by increasing the number of abandoned farms, decreasing agricultural productivity, and a labour shortage due to migration (Su et al, 2020). The same issue is addressed in the study by De Toni et al (2021), which develops and tests a set of indicators aligned with rural development policy objectives to describe current territorial characteristics using Italy as a case‐study. The study discovers the following: the unemployment rate indicator indicates a lack of support for multi‐sectoral local job promotion activities, the indicator of farm size is associated with a lack of development of short food supply chains, low values for the water use efficiency indicator indicate inefficient management of primary sector water resources; low values for the road density indicator indicate a lack of agroforestry infrastructure to support agroforestry‐enhancing activities, indicators of conservation, forest cover and hydrological risk are associated with insufficient natural resource accumulation in general and moderate to high hydrological risk. …”

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Rural area and agricultural region revitalisation modelling

Zhu

2022

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Comparing the per capita incomes of urban and rural households reveals a sizable income disparity in the latter, as well as an uneven distribution of income across China's regions. This article discusses and ranks the drivers that affect rural development. Among the most critical are farmer support factors, transportation infrastructure development, information and communication technology development, and rural entrepreneurship. The decline in the Engel coefficient, which reflects changes in welfare and income elasticity estimates of food demand, and income elasticity itself, indicates that food demand for Chinese farmers has become extremely inelastic. The ranking of China's regions in terms of per capita income growth shows that the intended policy of wealth equalisation of the country's population is being followed.The objective is to modernise agriculture and reduce regional disparities for China to achieve the status of a moderately developed country shortly, which will require state assistance. The emphasis is on farmer welfare, rural areas, and agriculture. In the face of massive population densities, regional disparities, and vast heterogeneous territory, the land consolidation practice is demonstrated in various regions as a platform and lever for rural life revitalisation. Rural tourism development is defined as a means of generating additional jobs and ensuring the long-term viability of villages.The rural elite's decisive role in leading the agricultural sector's restructuring is emphasised. Central and local governments can use the results to strengthen the legislative framework, develop plans and programmes, and identify rural development models.

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Aligning Inner Peripheries with rural development in Italy: Territorial evidence to support policy contextualization

Cited by 34 publications

References 45 publications

Agritourism and Sustainability: What We Can Learn from a Systematic Literature Review

Agritourism and Sustainability: What We Can Learn from a Systematic Literature Review

Role of Local Investments in Creating Rural Development in Poland

Rural area and agricultural region revitalisation modelling

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