Agritourism Rural Development Public Administration

Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, 2020

The present paper attempts to make an analysis of the agrarian structures based on an extensive bibliographic study in the period of the recent history of Romania. The 20 th century is, in the history of the agrarian economy, dedicated to multiple endeavours to solve the social and economic rural problem. The solution consisted of agrarian reforms that sought to alleviate rural poverty, to decrease the small and medium-sized land property atomization, to counteract the persistence of large properties, to reduce the precariousness of rural living conditions. The European context in which Romania's agriculture developed in the 20 th century was also generated by the pressures induced by the technical changes; in this sense, the land operation modalities changed, the cropping systems improved, livestock farming expanded, and advanced agro-technical measures were used.

Challenges for the Agricultural Sector in Central and Eastern Europe, 2014

After the change of the political system and the transformation of the economy, which depended on abandoning the planned economy, in Poland emerged features that shown agriculture and rural areas maladjustment to the new state model and a market economy that was being implemented. By the end of the 1980s, the main features of agriculture and rural areas were resulting from development model realised over the years, whose main objective was the agricultural production. The new reality disclosed low economic efficiency of many farms and the necessity to reorient the concept of developing regions with monofunctional agricultural character to the concept of differentiating their economies. A key problem connected with ensuring rural population improvement of the standard of living is developing non-agricultural functions in rural areas. The generally unprofitable agricultural production must be supplemented, or even replaced by other non-agricultural functions, e.g. tourism, handicrafts or agri-food processing. The article presents the issue of multifunctional development of rural areas and agriculture in Poland. One of the elements of this development is tourism in rural areas, and the related agritourism, which is treated as an important branch of the non-agricultural activities, not only on a local, but also on a national scale. The paper shows the most important economic and non-economic benefits associated with the development of agritourism, as well as the threats arising from it for the rural areas.

Transylvanian review of administrative sciences, 2012

A large part of Romania’s population lives in the rural environment, in communes and in their composing villages. However, there is an important gap in what concerns the administrative action, access to public services and the general development level, between the urban and the rural environment. The paper at hand aims at performing an assessment of the rural space state, from an administrative perspective, starting from the general characteristics of communes in Romania. This evaluation represents the benchmark for identifying major ways for action in the administrative reform of the rural space.

A large part of Romania's population lives in the rural environment, in communes and in their composing villages. However, there is an important gap in what concerns the administrative action, access to public services and the general development level, between the urban and the rural environment. The paper at hand aims at performing an assessment of the rural space state, from an administrative perspective, starting from the general characteristics of communes in Romania. This evaluation represents the benchmark for identifying major ways for action in the administrative reform of the rural space.

2014

As from the second industrial revolution, rural communities have been affected by a continuous social and economic decline. The traditional economic development paradigms moved people and investments towards the industrialized metropolitan areas, causing depopulation of rural areas and loss of their cultural heritages. This development model became, with time, unsustainable from the social, cultural, and economic point of view. Modern patterns of rural development highlight that a rational and planned exploitation of agricultural resources together with the valorization of cultural and naturalistic heritage of rural areas are the right leverages to assure sustainable growth. In this work we analyze the potentials of Agritourism as a means of sustainable development for rural areas. To reach this aim, we present some findings of an explorative survey carried out in the Calabria region of Italy during 2012 on a sample of 52 farms offering agritourism activities. After analyzing the extent of the agritourism phenomena in the region, the survey aims to evaluate if agritourism can support sustainable development of a rural community becoming the hub of an “agritourism rural network.”

2018

Still of the XIX century, in the modernization process of Romania, one thing of the great problems of the Romanian society has constituted the structure of the Romania society. The modern society is the town and bourgeoisie result. In Romania, on the contrary, the social reports them reunited and opposed on the landowners and peasants. Even if after 1900, after a period of urban relative development, approximately 80% of Romanian population lived in villages. Great rural predomination has strong marketed a large game of social-economic projects and the different interpretations of national past, the Romanian spirituality and destiny. The “Romanian model” past, present and even future has remaining of many points of view a predominant rural model. Northern-Eastern region of Romania, the poorest region of Romania and European Union, is characterising, and in present time, of an accentuating prevailing of a rural medium. Which is the underdevelopment image in the Romanian rural of the ...

Rural Areas and Development, 2009

The aim of this article is to present the results of a project implemented in Romania between December 2006 and March 2008. The project entitled “Study Regarding the Prospective Valuation of the Socio-Economic Development of the Rural Space in Vaslui County” was driven by the Vaslui County Directorate of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in order to establish the local policy for promoting and approaching the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD). There were elaborated 84 studies for 81 communes, 1 city and 2 towns with rural areas. The studies highlighted the particularities of each community and the trends for their rural development.

Annals - Economy Series, 2013

The article started with the modern connection observed between sectors in EU-primary, secondary and tertiary-on rural areas, where agriculture becomes essential. First, this connection is manifested in Romania under the impact of the main directions of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) during 2014-2020, namely: a more market-oriented production, but also related to the public, promoting food security, while considering environmental issues and, in addition, achieve cooperation and alignment to the European Economic Area, including equality in European funding. Secondly, there is a dedicated rural development policy, which is supported by a series of investments, but imposed a number of directions that will lead to the expansion of tertiary sector measures, marketing, tourism, ecology, and promoting social inclusion, poverty reduction and economic development in rural areas. Other influences are generated by foreign direct investments-FDI in rural areas. The conclusion is based on the fragility of the rural sector in Romania, compared to other European countries and highlights specific areas of interest of stakeholders for the following issues: improving policies and decisions, access to markets, infrastructure development, access to financial services, access to knowledge, services innovation and risk reduction.

This paper aims to present the interactions that occur between urban and rural, realizing a strict separation of these two areas, their populations and their activities here. This thing is being reflected in the division of policies on spatial and sectorial criteria, urban planners usually concentrating on the importance of urban centers as commerce and transportation nods in the regional policy giving little attention to agricultural or rural-led development. It is based on statistical data provided by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forests and Rural Development and by the National Statistics Institute and on direct observation executed in the North – East region of Romania. The data has been processed into the following indicators: aging indicator, average number of rural inhabitants, active occupied population, infant mortality, the average index of poverty and others. This paper represents an overview of how the strategies of urban and rural are intertwined. It ends with some recommendations on how the planners and decision makers can take these issues into consideration.