Variations in rural development: a comparative analysis of the application of the Rural Development Regulation Framework in France and the Netherlands
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common agricultural policy, multifunctional agricultureAbstract
This paper reviews the ways in which France and the Netherlands applied the European Rural Development Regulation Framework during the programming period 2000-2006 by examining the two cases and mapping out the main lines of their respective trajectories. It is based on institutional understanding of the policy-making process. The Dutch application was shaped essentially by a nature conservationist view of the countryside, whereas France had a predominantly farmer-oriented implementation. These variationsare obviously due to the differences in the national issues at stake, but also to the political clout of the agricultural sector. In the Netherlands, a small and densely populated country in search of space for ‘nature’, farmers have to deal with a rurality made of other claims, whereas in France the farmers have managed to maintain an agricultural countryside.
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2009-01-09
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