Rural development policy: A perspective of local actors in Serbia

Abstract

Sumarry Key challenge in transitional countries is effective decentralized local governance with

Introduction

“…2 Further, the Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance (IPA), and the Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance for Rural Development (IPARD) are aimed at all types of agricultural households, but the application rates are very low, because they require pre-investment and developed business plans from farmers, which many producers are not willing to make (Milovanović, 2016). Such a situation reveals in the first place that Serbian agriculture has not yet developed the culture and knowledge associated with the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), from either state planners or end-users (Papić and Bogdanov, 2015). Pre-accession funds in Serbia are based on competitive platforms that favour better-off and advanced agricultural producers, unlike other EU programmes that have been initiating new agricultural and environmental schemes that are also competitive but target different types of actors in agribusiness.…”

The impact of air quality conditioned by emission of pollutants to the development of rural tourism and potentials of rural areas

“…Rural tourism and agritourism could lead a new relationship between environment, work and free time, in terms of sustainability of rural areas (Perotto, 1993;Fagioli, Diotallevi, Ciani, 2014). Hence, rural development is considered as a complex mesh of networks in which resources are mobilized and in which the control of the process consists of interplay between local and external forces (Lowe, Murdoch, Ward, 1995;Papić, Bogdanov, 2015). The following table shows the principles of rural development.…”

Correlation between the air quality index SAQI_11 and sustainable rural development in the Republic of Serbia

“…Rural areas in Serbia are highly diverse in terms of natural endowments, economic, social and population characteristics. Diversity of rural areas is driven by natural resource endowments, cultural and historical heritage, as well as economic, social and demographic patterns (Papić, Bogdanov, 2015). Rural areas are usually associated with farmlands and farms, as well as a place to stay for a summer holiday or to go to for a weekend trip (Chmielinski, Chmielewska, 2015).…”