{"componentChunkName":"component---src-layouts-issue-js","path":"/issues/volume-16","result":{"data":{"allArticle":{"edges":[{"node":{"title":"Citizens’ vs practitioners’ perception on the EU regional approach","slug":"citizens-vs-practitioners-perception-on-the-eu-regional-approach","author":[{"name":"Monica Mihaela Tudor"},{"name":"Violeta Florian"},{"name":"Elisabeta Stefania Rosu"},{"name":"Mihaela Kruszlicika"}],"volume":{"name":"Volume 16","year":2019,"no":16,"title":"???","editor":[{"name":"Cristina Bianca Pocol"},{"name":"Wawrzyniec Czubak"}],"slug":"volume-16"},"pageFrom":7,"pageTo":18,"pdf":{"url":"https://www.datocms-assets.com/20305/1610186006-01tudor.pdf","title":"2019-RAD-16-01-TUDOR"},"abstract":"This paper targets to juxtapose the points of view of citizens, as beneficiaries of the European programmes – on the one hand, and of practitioners – as designers and experts in charge of implementing the Cohesion Policy programmes – on the other:\nThe study was conducted at the level of a sample consisting of 9 NUTS II regions of the European Union, which were selected to be representative for the complex and heterogeneous reality of the EU Cohesion Policy. The analysis of data collected from the case study regions demonstrated that, regardless of the status of the regions (competitiveness or convergence regions), there are overlaps as regards points of view of the two categories of regional actors only for a part of regional priorities.\nAt the same time, the study revealed that the citizens’ trust in the effectiveness of the EU in targeting regional issues is higher in the case of those regional needs that are on the agenda of both categories of regional actors and it drops for those regional issues for which perceptive divergences exist between citizens and practitioners.\n"}},{"node":{"title":"Parameters of the LEADER subsidy distribution with an institutional background in Hungary","slug":"parameters-of-the-leader-subsidy-distribution-with-an-institutional-background-in","author":[{"name":"Adél Veselicz"},{"name":"Csaba Patkós"}],"volume":{"name":"Volume 16","year":2019,"no":16,"title":"???","editor":[{"name":"Cristina Bianca Pocol"},{"name":"Wawrzyniec Czubak"}],"slug":"volume-16"},"pageFrom":19,"pageTo":31,"pdf":{"url":"https://www.datocms-assets.com/20305/1610186180-02vaseliczpatkos.pdf","title":"2019-RAD-16-02-VASELICZ-PATKOS"},"abstract":"The LEADER programme has been used for more than 20 years in the EU. Our paper examines 3 local action groups situated in the Hungarian Békés County. The objective of the paper is to examine them from an organizational/institutional point of view. It is assumed that work organizations play a crucial role in the life of LAGs, and get an answer whether capabilities and territorial ties of their members have an effect on the existence and functioning of action groups. Moreover, personal interviews were made with administrative staff. Statistical data were collected from the website and integrated rural development strategies of LAGs and from the open database of the Hungarian Central Statistical Office These data were later used to prepare maps illustrating them. Hoover-index was used by the authors to conduct statistical calculations. The research findings suggest that the quality of local management organizations is of great importance to successfully strengthen local communities and governance. A local staff of adequate quantity and quality (education, salary) is indispensable. The geographical position and attachment of LAGs is a relevant factor in bottom-up rural development. Maybe, an EU-wide directive in this area can contribute to a more successful LEADER approach. The reseach results may help to improve the performance of the LEADER LAGs at a national or even the EU level."}},{"node":{"title":"Geographical context of the registered LEADER Local Action Groups in Slovakia (EU 2014-2020 programming period)","slug":"geographical-context-of-the-registered-leader-local-action-groups-in-slovakia-eu","author":[{"name":"Vladimír Székely"},{"name":"Ján Novotný"}],"volume":{"name":"Volume 16","year":2019,"no":16,"title":"???","editor":[{"name":"Cristina Bianca Pocol"},{"name":"Wawrzyniec Czubak"}],"slug":"volume-16"},"pageFrom":32,"pageTo":51,"pdf":{"url":"https://www.datocms-assets.com/20305/1610186315-03szekelynovotny.pdf","title":"2019-RAD-16-03-SZEKELY-NOVOTNY"},"abstract":"The European Union’s LEADER programme, as an integral part of the Rural Development Programme, is perceived as an important, spatially oriented instrument of the current rural policy and Local Action Groups (LAGs) are the mainstay of the implementation of this developmental initiative. Only 29 LAGs were registered in Slovakia for the EU 2007-2013 programming period. They covered only 18% of the territory of the country and affected more than 618 thousand (11%) inhabitants in Slovakia. The situation dramatically changed during the next years. For the 2014-2020 programming period, 110 Local Action Groups with differentiated financial support for their approved individual Community-led local development (CLLD) strategies were registered in Slovakia. The aim of the present study is twofold. Firstly, it attempts to describe the process of innovative general and spatial diffusion of registered non-profit organizations from rural territories on the territory of Slovakia. We present this process stressing the specific position of Slovakia among the group of the EU Member States. Secondly, territorial areas (“regions”) covered by LAGs were selected for a detailed comparative intra-national analysis of their basic, geographically relevant characteristics (number of inhabitants and municipalities, proportion between urban and rural municipalities, and character of demographic development) by using the individual and aggregate statistical data for descriptive statistical analysis (tables) and cartographic presentation (maps)."}},{"node":{"title":"Analyzing the problems of Slovak local stores focusing on the price and availability of dairy products","slug":"analyzing-the-problems-of-slovak-local-stores-focusing-on-the-price-and-availabil","author":[{"name":"Marek Petriľák"},{"name":"Elena Horská"},{"name":"Jozef Palkovic"},{"name":"Vladimír Fuga"}],"volume":{"name":"Volume 16","year":2019,"no":16,"title":"???","editor":[{"name":"Cristina Bianca Pocol"},{"name":"Wawrzyniec Czubak"}],"slug":"volume-16"},"pageFrom":52,"pageTo":60,"pdf":{"url":"https://www.datocms-assets.com/20305/1610186548-04petrilak.pdf","title":"2019-RAD-16-04-PETRILAK"},"abstract":"The main aim of the article is to identify issues and analyze the affordability of dairy products at the local retailers in all regions of Slovakia.\nThe main objective of the study is investigation of the availability of local dairy products in farms stores, and comparison of the prices of dairy products at the local stores with the prices of Slovakian products on the shelves of the selected major retailers. The European Union’s efforts are to support rural development, including farmers at local, regional and national levels.\nOur assumption is that specialized local stores offer mainly high cost and high quality products from the region and retail chains offer products from major Slovak dairy processors. The authors analyzed the relationship between the type of specialized store, region and demand for local dairy products using methods of Chi-Square Test of Independence and the Kruskal-Wallis test. The second part of the survey consisted of interviews to find out what the owners or operators of local farm stores are having problems with. The obtained data were collected from 67 local and farm stores. The stores which offered dairy products were compared with three selected major retail chains from the Slovak market.\nThe survey showed the results that point to consumers’ low awareness of the importance of purchasing local products, customer inability to buy these products, the inability to compete with the retail chains or higher price and weak link between specialized stores and local farmers. If the prices of dairy products in local stores are higher, the availability of products is weaker, this situation is creating space for a short food supply chain which, by reducing the number of intermediaries and using innovative tools, can scale down the price of the product and increase consumer interest.\nStudy shows that even customers are increasingly interested in local dairy products which they are buying in specialized stores, stores have problems with direct availability of farm products. Another problem which this study confirms is the price competitiveness of the retail chains, which is directly related to the consumer behaviours of buying products which are produced and processed in the region."}},{"node":{"title":"Challenges of the cohesion policy in Poland. A study on the implementation of regional programmes in Dolnośląskie and Warmińsko-Mazurskie in 2007-2013","slug":"challenges-of-the-cohesion-policy-in-poland-a-study-on-the-implementation-of-regi","author":[{"name":"Barbara Wieliczko"},{"name":"Paweł Chmieliński"},{"name":"Marcin Gospodarowicz"},{"name":"Adam Wasilewski"},{"name":"Zbigniew Floriańczyk"},{"name":"Marek Wigier"}],"volume":{"name":"Volume 16","year":2019,"no":16,"title":"???","editor":[{"name":"Cristina Bianca Pocol"},{"name":"Wawrzyniec Czubak"}],"slug":"volume-16"},"pageFrom":61,"pageTo":70,"pdf":{"url":"https://www.datocms-assets.com/20305/1610186689-05wieliczko.pdf","title":"2019-RAD-16-05-WIELICZKO"},"abstract":"Cohesion policy has become the key EU policy based on its share in the EU budget. This policy is supposed to help the EU regions to develop and thus increase socio-economic cohesion among them. Yet, given the recent EU crises and still uncertain willingness of all its Member States to continue the common project, there is a question whether it should also support increasing citizens’ identification with the EU.\nThe paper is based on the case studies conducted in two Polish regions within PERCEIVE, a Horizon 2020 project, and aims at presenting challenges of cohesion policy in Poland.\nThe results show that Polish case study regions, despite the differences in the level of their socio-economic development, face the same challenges to the cohesion policy. Moreover, these challenges are a clear set of policy recommendation for the reform of the cohesion policy and they all concentrate around trust, both among citizens, between citizens and authorities, and among different levels of administration and political power"}},{"node":{"title":"Development of risk management instruments in the EU","slug":"development-of-risk-management-instruments-in-the-eu","author":[{"name":"Vlado Kovačević"},{"name":"Marko Jeločnik"}],"volume":{"name":"Volume 16","year":2019,"no":16,"title":"???","editor":[{"name":"Cristina Bianca Pocol"},{"name":"Wawrzyniec Czubak"}],"slug":"volume-16"},"pageFrom":71,"pageTo":95,"pdf":{"url":"https://www.datocms-assets.com/20305/1610186791-06kovacevicjeloncik.pdf","title":"2019-RAD-16-06-KOVACEVIC-JELONCIK"},"abstract":"The paper aims at reviewing the EU 2014-2020 CAP with regard to the risk management provisions in the agricultural sector and analyses the potential future CAP developments related to risk management in order to manage more effectively agricultural production risk, income uncertainties and market volatility.\nCurrently, the EU farmers covered by CAP 2014-2020 have different types of risk management instruments at their disposal: insurances, mutual funds, savings accounts, hedging strategies, fiscal-tax measures and ad-hoc payments.\nThe EU has a flexible regulatory framework to support risk management instruments, which allows coping with very diverse and heterogeneous agricultural risks faced across Member States. This framework is delineated by the CAP as well as by the rules applicable to State aids in the agricultural sector.\nMajor weakness of the CAP 2014-2020 risk management policy is the ample margin of flexibility and optionality permitted in Pillar II that might lead to an uneven application, not only among but also within Member States. As a consequence, it can be noted that the EU does not take account of the harmonized EU-wide agricultural risk management scheme. The types of and extent to which risk management tools have been adopted differ widely across Member States.\nThe EU support in development of agricultural risk management instruments has huge perspective, mainly based on two factors. Firstly, climate change is expected to continue and affect the agricultural production even more severely. Secondly, the World Trade Organization, under certain conditions, allows for support of risk management, providing an opportunity for long-term government support. Under the new CAP, the EU risk management policy should be more harmonized among the Member States."}},{"node":{"title":"Unique initiatives for future rural development: culture-uncommon thematic villages in Lithuania","slug":"unique-initiatives-for-future-rural-development-culture-uncommon-thematic-village","author":[{"name":"Rita Vilkė"},{"name":"Živilė Gedminaitė-Raudonė"}],"volume":{"name":"Volume 16","year":2019,"no":16,"title":"???","editor":[{"name":"Cristina Bianca Pocol"},{"name":"Wawrzyniec Czubak"}],"slug":"volume-16"},"pageFrom":96,"pageTo":110,"pdf":{"url":"https://www.datocms-assets.com/20305/1610186923-07vilke.pdf","title":"2019-RAD-16-07-VILKE"},"abstract":"The expanding possibilities for a better quality of life increasingly accelerate the demand for various unique and uncommon services. The expansion of services had been recently spectated in all sectors and spheres of human activity. The impacts of these changes become evident both in cities and the countryside. The increased requirements and demand for the variety of services in rural areas, at the same time, raised the value of unique cultural resources, specific regions. However, creative innovators found new ways of using unique cultural resources in geographically distanced regions by establishing culture-uncommon thematic villages, which have the potential to mature into unique self-organized business models.\nThis paper aims to explain the potential of using unique cultural resources in culture-uncommon environments for future regional development in the EU on the example of thematic villages. Based on a case study, performed in Lithuania in 2018, this research gives evidence of a successful initiative, developed by using cultural uniqueness in the culture-uncommon environment. Research results reveal that creative application of cultural uniqueness in the particular environment might add to the development of rural region both in the economic and social sense. Culture-uncommon thematic villages hold potential to grow till fully mature self-organized business models and expand with the social and economic impact on the particular region’s development. Therefore, it is suggested to focus on fostering the use of unique cultural resources in the EU CAP support schemes 2020+ next to the aims of making the EU agricultures equally developed by all indicators in all of the EU regions."}},{"node":{"title":"Assessing the views of farmers on the landscape and inclusion in the Ecological Focus Area (EFA) in the context of mandatory (greening) standards","slug":"assessing-the-views-of-farmers-on-the-landscape-and-inclusion-in-the-ecological-f","author":[{"name":"Marie Trantinová"},{"name":"Ivana Darmovzalová"}],"volume":{"name":"Volume 16","year":2019,"no":16,"title":"???","editor":[{"name":"Cristina Bianca Pocol"},{"name":"Wawrzyniec Czubak"}],"slug":"volume-16"},"pageFrom":111,"pageTo":122,"pdf":{"url":"https://www.datocms-assets.com/20305/1610187041-08trantinovadarmovzalova.pdf","title":"2019-RAD-16-08-TRANTINOVA-DARMOVZALOVA"},"abstract":"The purpose of the paper is to assess the views of farmers on thelandscape and their possible inclusion in the Ecological Focus Areas. The study used data from a survey among 451 farmers from Czech and Moravia conducted in 2016 in a form of questionnaire. We demonstrate that apart from the support for registration of landscape features, agricultural policy in the Czech Republic should be also focused on the support for forming and assessing new landscape features. This needs an extensive discussion with the participation of different stakeholders and policy-makers."}},{"node":{"title":"Analysis of local development in Romanian and Hungarian villages","slug":"analysis-of-local-development-in-romanian-and-hungarian-villages","author":[{"name":"Tibor Farkas"},{"name":"Dóra Kolta"}],"volume":{"name":"Volume 16","year":2019,"no":16,"title":"???","editor":[{"name":"Cristina Bianca Pocol"},{"name":"Wawrzyniec Czubak"}],"slug":"volume-16"},"pageFrom":123,"pageTo":134,"pdf":{"url":"https://www.datocms-assets.com/20305/1610187127-09farkaskolta.pdf","title":"2019-RAD-16-09-FARKAS-KOLTA"},"abstract":"Over the last decade we have been conducting research activities in many village research camps and accumulating knowledge about the development of different villages. There is a gradually strengthening assumption that the development possibilities in the analysed villages will be affected significantly by the condition of the local society. In the study, we primarily focused on the experiences gained in the Romanian and Hungarian village research camps, where we were studing the local society and the history of development of thevillages. The main question was whether their development was determined by strategy, good luck and good position, or by the quality of the local society. Thefollowing methods were used during the research: processing and analysis of data available at the site and in databases, questionnaire surveys, interviews and participant observations. In case of statistical data, we relied primarily on the applications of the National Spatial Development and Territorial Information System (TeIR) and on the databases of the Territorial Statistical Data System (T-STAR) operated by the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (HCSO). With the help of the development history of the settlements, we drew general conclusions about the functioning of endogenous resources and social capital. We concluded that without a strong local society the local development initiatives could fail."}}]}},"pageContext":{"slug":"volume-16"}},"staticQueryHashes":["2036182386","3000541721"]}