Area-based partnerships in rural Poland: The post-accession experience

Rural Development and Local Action Groups in Slovakia: International and Intranational Comparisons

“…This type of partnership can theoretically produce a specific group of persons involved separating themselves from the group of local residents showing little loyalty to the developmental priorities of the existing partnerships presented. Unfortunately, this idea which infringes the fundamental principle of the LEADER initiative, consisting in accentuating the participation of all strata of the local population in rural development, is not only a theoretical speculation specific for Slovakia [5,11].…”

“…The European Union's 'LEADER' programme (an acronym of Liaisons Entre Actions de Développement de l'Economie Rurale), as integral part of Rural Development Programme (representing the place-based bottom-up approach of rural development), is perceived as the important, spatially oriented instrument of current rural policy [12], and Local Action Groups, groups of public and private partners (public-private partnerships) from the rural territory, are the mainstay of the implementation of this developmental initiative. Though the professional and scientific literature pays great attention to multiple general and national aspects of LEADER programme and LAGs (implementation, functioning, evaluation and presentation in mass media) in the context of rural development and rural policy [2,3,4,5,7,8,9,11,12], information about Slovakia is still not much available and Slovakia (when being compared, for example, with Poland or Czech Republic) remains a relatively "terra incognita" for the rest of the rural Europe.…”

Tracing shift in Czech rural development paradigm (Reflections of Local Action Groups in the media)

“…Voluntary participation in the local organizations (such as a LAG) supports the creation of a coherent community which is the most visible form of the existence of social capital. Studies (Furmankiewicz et al 2010;Lošťák and Hudečková 2010;Ray 2000;Shucksmith 2000;Marquardt et al 2012) demonstrate that the local action groups are based on social capital. Lopolito et doi: 10.17221/102/2015-AGRICECON al.…”

Changes in commuting patterns in the territories covered by LEADER Local Action Groups: Slovakia, 2001 and 2011

“…Kovách, 2000;Ray, 2000;Maurel, 2008;Furmankiewicz et al, 2010;Esparcia, 2014;Dax et al, 2016;Navarro et al, 2016, Boukalová et al, 2016, very little information is available about Slovakia (compared with Poland or the Czech Republic for example) and it remains rather a 'terra incognita' for the rest of rural Europe.…”