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Throughout the history of the European Rural Development Policy and the LEADER (Liaisons entre activitiés de Developement de L'Economie Rural) Approach, the Regulation that heads them has experienced changes in order to provide greater support for the development of the most disadvantaged European rural areas. Currently, the EAFRD (European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development) finances this aid, which is immersed the Programming Period 2014-2020 with certain changes compared to the previous one. Thus, this paper intends to analyze the role of LEADER in the current Programming Period and to know how the territorial distribution of it is. It will be possible to see how there are differences in the operation of the LEADER Approach and how demographic and socioeconomic variables continue to act as location factors of rural development investments in Extremadura. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For 25 years the rural development policy has been implemented through the LEADER Approach in the EU to reduce differences between rural and urban areas, as well as to satisfy the basic needs of the population. In this paper, Extremadura is analysed, which is a Spanish region where LEADER has been applied since its inception in 1991. The objective is to assess if the distribution of rural development aids has been influenced by the diverse demographic and socioeconomic realities that Extremadura presents from the analysis of variables that represent these realities on the territory through a GIS. Following this methodology, it has been noticed that the largest investments have been executed in the most developed rural areas of the region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the past 25 years, it has been applied in Europe's rural areas, and especially in Extremadura, territorial strategies through the LEADER Method in order to enable their economic development. This is by means of implementation of new activities as Rural Tourism is. The objective is to keep the population and slowing emigration processes and aging. In this paper, the evolution of aids to Rural Tourism is studied, as well as its regional implementation with context indicators, such as investments and projects by area and population of Local Action Groups. Moreover, other socioeconomic and demographic variables are studied to verify the success of its initial objectives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From the 90s to the present day, Rural Policies called LEADER Method have been put in place in the European rural areas (Initiatives LEADER and PRODER are also included). Its objective is to activate the development in rural areas, in particular the rural areas of Extremadura, and to reduce as much as possible their socioeconomic differences in urban areas. In this study, it aims to study the implementation of this LEADER Method in the territory of Extremadura, observing the evolution and showing different qualitative and quantitative results and checking if the Rural Policies have contributed to reduce demographic and socioeconomic differences between rural and urban areas, the main objective of these policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]