leader and partnerships: the case of Italy

Abstract

This paper focuses on the Local Action Group as a partnership and considers how such entities fit within the Polanyian triadic model of social order. The rhetoric of leader and endogenous development would suggest that lags are a manifestation of the principle of reciprocal relationships. Osti concludes, however, that although there is a shift away from the hierarchical principle, the direction of change is, in fact, towards quasi‐markets. In these markets, territories are provided with an enhanced capacity as strategic agents but are also susceptible to control by local/regional economic and political interests. His theoretical ideas are grounded in a study of leader in Italy.

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

“…It means that the media suggest that the goals of the LEADER approach were not achieved in the Czech Republic yet, despite that there is growing information about the new approaches in rural development. No wonder of such situation, because already in 2000 the papers reflecting the situation in the old EU members states which started with the LEADER in the 1990s documented that the intangible outcomes of the LEADER are not visible yet too much (Osti 2000;Ray 2000;Shucksmith 2000). These papers explained this fact through the short programming periods in the EU when 7 years is not enough.…”

“…The research presented in this paper aimed at finding out weather the local action groups in the Czech Republic reflect in their activities the shift towards the intangible resources emphasised by the endogenous type of rural development manifested in the LEADER approach (Osti 2000;Ray 2000;Shucksmith 2000). It means that the goal is to find out if there is a paradigmatic change in rural development in the term of transition from the exogenous to endogenous type of rural development.…”

Print E-mail edit The Potential of an "Agriculture of the Middle" Model in the Context of EU Rural Development: An American Solution to an Irish Problem?

“…3,4 In comparison to agri-environmental schemes, 5 however, there has been weaker engagement on the part of Irish farm families with governance and rural development programs such as the EC LEADER program. 6 Although the design of the LEADER rural development program was inspired by problems in the agricultural economy, it has been noted since the first LEADER program that farmers are more reluctant than other social and professional groups to engage with the program, both in Ireland (Conway, 1991;Macken-Walsh, 2009a;Teagasc, 2005) and elsewhere in the EU (Esposito-Fava & Lajarge, 2009, Osti, 2000Van der Ploeg, 2003). 7 As the farming community is a major social group in most EU rural areas, poor engagement by farmers poses a conundrum for the LEADER program, which is explicitly intended to provide a democratic participatory forum for rural social groups in designing and implementing local development actions.…”

“…Poor participation by farmers in contemporary rural development schemes has been noted in Ireland (Conway, 1991;Macken-Walsh, 2009a;Teagasc, 2005), as well as elsewhere in the EU (Esposito-Fava & Lajarge, 2009;Osti, 2000;Van der Ploeg, 2003). The estrangement of farmers from contemporary rural development programs is partly explained on the one hand by their attachment to those forms of social and cultural capital closely associated with agricultural production; and, on the other hand, by conventional farmers' lack of occupational preferences for income-generating activities such as service provision and processing.…”

¿Desarrollo rural o desarrollo de territorios rurales dinámicos? La contribución a los desequilibrios territoriales por parte de los programas de desarrollo en el sur de España, Andalucía

“…En la mayor parte de estos trabajos también se advierte la ausencia de implicación y/o participación real de los ciudadanos (Plaza, 2005;Böcher, 2008;Dargan y Shucksmith, 2008;Buciega, 2012;Esparcia, 2014;Esparcia y Escribano, 2012: 237;Augustyn y Nemes, 2014;Martínez et al, 2015;Bosworth et al, 2016), y el reforzamiento de las estructuras de poder a favor de determinados lobbies económicos y políticos en detrimento de determinados grupos sociales que quedan marginados de ellas (Osti, 2000;Shortall, 2008;Nardone et al, 2010;Gardner, 2011;y Navarro et al, 2014), incluso en términos de género en relación con el empoderamiento de la mujer y de la gobernanza, especialmente en los territorios del rural profundo y montano (Cassellas et al, 2013), en el que la progresiva y mayor educación y formación les está permitiendo asumir retos y proyectos innovadores en el contexto del mundo rural. Dicho de otro modo, "la postura que apoya que la educación y la formación fueron para las mujeres rurales un elemento de desarraigo y desapego del medio rural y, en definitiva, de abandono del mismo 5 , ahora se revierte porque precisamente la educación y la formación se convierten en factores indispensables para construir las nuevas identidades rurales femeninas" (Porto et al, 2015: 403).…”