1. In search of rural development
- Author
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Frédéric Wallet, André Torre, Sciences pour l'Action et le Développement : Activités, Produits, Territoires (SADAPT), and Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-AgroParisTech
- Subjects
agroecology ,Civil society ,local networks ,050204 development studies ,media_common.quotation_subject ,[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio] ,[SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences ,multifunctionality ,technicis approach ,Political science ,11. Sustainability ,0502 economics and business ,050602 political science & public administration ,Regional science ,capabilities ,Dimension (data warehouse) ,Empowerment ,Agroecology ,civil society ,media_common ,2. Zero hunger ,Modalities ,business.industry ,05 social sciences ,15. Life on land ,0506 political science ,Intervention (law) ,empowerment ,Agriculture ,agricultural modernisation ,new paradigm ,Rural area ,business ,environment ,rural development - Abstract
This chapter questions the concept of rural development. Pointing the difficulty of reaching a definition generally accepted, it also presents the historical evolution of ideas that underlie this concept. From the technical approach centered on agricultural modernization that prevailed in the 1950s to the current interest in agro-ecological issues, different dominant models of rural development are successively presented and discussed: technicist, local networks, empowerment, capabilities, civil society, and environmentalist approaches are considered. From these successive adjustments of rural development models resulted in the early 1990s, the idea that rural areas are engaged in a new development paradigm, responding to expanded logical, particularly in the sectoral dimension, on the place and role of agriculture, the modalities of public intervention, and types of involved stakeholders. Our purpose here highlights the turning point constituted by the recognition of agriculture’s multifunctional nature.
- Published
- 2016