Rural development
(June 2007) Given the large number of publications in which AEIDL is involved, it has been decided to discontinue updating this section. All our publications are linked to a specific programme or project and can, therefore, be found directly by consulting the website of the programme or project concerned.
New address for the LEADER publications: http://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/rur/leader2/rural-fr/biblio/index.htm
MethodologyTransnational cooperationEnvironmentSocial exclusionFinancing
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Methodology
 | Global competitiveness of rural areas Globalisation issues and effects - Analysing an area’s global competitiveness - Building a global competitiveness strategy. |
| Economic competitiveness Background - Analysing an area’s economic competitiveness - Implementing a strategy to boost economic competitiveness. |
| Environmental competitiveness From exploiting resources to environmental competitiveness - Evaluating the environmental competitiveness of an area - Reflecting on a strategy for improving environmental competitiveness. |
| Social competitiveness Social competitiveness in the territorial approach - Analysing an area’s social competitiveness - Improving social competitiveness. |
| Territorial competitiveness The territorial approach in rural areas: lessons learned from LEADER - Territorial capital and territorial project - Progressing from analysing the territorial capital to developing a territorial development strategy. |
| Assessing the added value of the LEADER approach Some reminders about LEADER and its evaluation - Identifying LEADER's specific features - Questions and evaluation issues for each specific feature - Information needs at the national/regional and European level. |
| From strategy to action: project selection The various methods of project selection - Project selection, expressing a development strategy - Project selection in the area coordination process - Evolution of the methods of project selection - Optimising the effects at local level. |
| Organising local partnerships From programme management to the coordination of local development - Principles, rules and foundations of a successful partnership - Optimising the results - The partnership matures. |
| Innovation and rural development The concept of innovation applied to rural areas - The stages of the innovation process - Innovation, a process of a fundamentally social nature - Three examples to illustrate the innovation process - Innovation as a result - Innovation and context. |
| Methodology guide for the analysis of innovative actions The objective of this document is to help local development players to further their knowledge of the area and to give an additional dimension to their action placing innovation in a perspective of sustainable development. |
| La mise en oeuvre du projet de développement local - L'expérience de LEADER I Impliquer la population dans le développement local - Le diagnostic de territoire et le montage d'un projet de développement - La conduite du projet local - Analyse de l'impact du projet de développement. Guide méthodologique pour l’analyse des besoins locaux d’innovation. |
Transnational cooperation
| Transnational cooperation between rural areas Introduction - Methodology Factsheets - Factsheets-Tools. |
| Transnational cooperation under LEADER II Activities and benefits of LEADER II cooperation - Difficulties encountered - Some recommendations and tools - Annexes: LEADER II transnational cooperation: state of play - List of the projects that were the subject of an interview. |
Environment
| Renewable sources of energy, sustainable sources of development The guide comprises thirteen parts presented in the form of factsheets: 1 - Renewable energy, new opportunities in rural areas. 2 - Answers to typically asked questions. 3 - Solar energy. 4 - Wind power. 5 – Hydropower. 6 - Energy from Biomass. 7 - The main steps of a scheme. 8 - Assessing local energy consumption. 9 - Involving the local community. 10 - Costs and funding opportunities. 11 - A checklist for implementing an energy scheme. 12 - Useful publications. 13 - Key sources of further information. Four cases studies are provided in the appendix. |
Social exclusion
| Fighting social exclusion in rural areas Social exclusion, a multidimensional phenomenon - Diagnosis and strategies to fight social exclusion in rural areas - Taking action against social exclusion in rural areas: what methods? what tools? - Consolidating the fight against social exclusion by including it in an area-based approach. |
Financing
| Local financing in rural areas Local financing – needs and issues - Current funding provision - Achievements and limitations of LEADER experiences - Challenges for the future. |
Training
| Training in aid of territorial development This guide advocates taking an approach to the definition and implementation of training that is centred on the requirements of the development process. This approach can be adopted whenever it is a question of designing and establishing such training courses. Designed essentially as a practical tool, this guide has been structured into two different types of data sheet: 12 “tools and method” data sheets, 9 presentations of specific cases or experiences. |
Local products
| Marketing local products: short and long distribution channels Section I - Marketing local products via short distribution channels: A few general factors - Conditions for success - Which clientele? Which strategy? - The different forms of marketing - Placing products on the market - Support for producers’ groups. Section II: Collectively marketing local products via long distribution channels - Issues at stake - Conditions for success - Start-up - Marketing channels. Section III: Technical data sheets. |
| The collective organisation of a sector for the local valorisation of agricultural resources Cheese processing: a representative and successful example of local valorisation of agricultural resources through a collective economic organisation structure Technical and economic analysis of the different functions in the cheese sector. |
Research
| Research, transfer and acquisition of knowledge in aid of rural development Satisfying knowledge needs for the purpose of rural development - Learning processes in rural areas - Development needs and research provision - LEADER’s potential role, present role and added value in learning processes. |
Rural services
| Information technologies and rural development This dossier presents several examples illustrating the opportunities but also the difficulties that can arise when using information and communication technologies (ICTs) for rural development. Four models are examined: ICTs and how they can boost existing activities; Using ICTs to take advantage of new opportunities; ICTs to improve local services; The electronic networking of socio-economic players. |
| Developing rural services The problem of organising services is prevalent, be that in rural areas situated far from towns or the urban hinterland, but the possible solutions vary. The solutions may require the provision of supplementary services or an amalgamation with the services supplied in urban areas or in the different rural areas. This document proposes: a general analysis of the problem; methodological elements for implementing local services; examples of tools for the different phases, i.e. identification, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of local services. |
| Support systems for new activities in rural areas - Methodology guide - July 1998 This guide offers a practical overview of the entire range of support services that LEADER groups provide or could provide to project promoters. There are 24 factsheets in total, divided in three parts: The support system - Individual services - Various techniques [PDF Introduction] DE-EN-ES-FR-IT-PT / [HTM Introduction] DE |
Rural tourism
| Developing walking holidays in rural areas Designing and implementing a walking project: the client group; main components of a walking holiday product; embarking on a “walking” project; facilities and services for walkers; information and promotion; marketing walking holidays – Case studies. |
| Evaluating a territory’s touristic potential - Methodology guide - Nov. 1997 The various stages of the process to be followed; analysis of local touristic supply; analysis of touristic demand; analysis of competition; analysis of market trends; diagnosis of touristic potential; “tool box” for evaluation - Case studies: the evaluations of touristic potential carried out in the West Cork LEADER areasn Ireland and Natur- und Lebensraum Rhön in Germany. |