The COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Implications for Rural Economies

Phillipson, Jeremy; Gorton, Matthew; Turner, Roger; Shucksmith, Mark; Aitken-McDermott, Katie; Areal, Francisco J.; Cowie, Paul; Hubbard, Carmen; Maioli, Sara; McAreavey, Ruth; Souza-Monteiro, Diogo; Newbery, Robert; Panzone, Luca A.; Rowe, Frances; Shortall, Sally

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“…The above discussion is part of a wider picture as there are rural areas facing a new challenging environment [24] and there are contradicting views regarding the rural development model that it has to frame the development programmes [25] since rural areas are multi-impacted and multi-influenced [26] by the policy approaches and mix followed [27]. To this extent, we argue that the research interest in EU development programmes implemented in the past or present for rural tourism enterprises in Greece is still at the starting point and a multilayered illustration of the obstacles in the EU funds absorption capacity of rural tourism enterprises can contribute to academic debate.…”

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Sustaining Rural Areas, Rural Tourism Enterprises and EU Development Policies: A Multi-Layer Conceptualisation of the Obstacles in Greece

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The main lever for the development and promotion of rural tourism in Greece has been, and continues to be, through specific EU programmes. Rural tourism in Greece began with a long delay compared to other European countries. The development philosophy was (and still is) to increase rural incomes as a complement to agricultural and livestock production, not by degrading them. This theoretical paper presents previous research studies in rural tourism and EU development programmes and it describes how European financial tools intended for rural tourism were implemented in Greece. Furthermore, it describes the challenges faced by rural people involved in the development of rural tourism in seeking European funding through a multi-layer approach on the obstacles in the EU funds absorption capacity. The analysis shows that the legislation, design of the programmes, processes from local governments, bureaucracy and malpractices create constraints in the absorption of EU funds and the results in the rural tourism development are not the expected ones. It concludes that there is a need for reforms in the national institutional framework and structures along with a different philosophy in approaching the EU funding initiatives in rural areas.

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Sustaining Rural Areas, Rural Tourism Enterprises and EU Development Policies: A Multi-Layer Conceptualisation of the Obstacles in Greece

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“…Some of them analyzed solely the impact of the virus on agricultural production regarding the first infected by COVID-19 countries, namely China [18,19] and later Italy [7,[20][21][22]. In contrast, some studies dealt with the agricultural sector of countries, which were later infected by the viral pandemic, including countries from the rest of Asia (India [23,24] and Iran [25]), Oceania (Australia [26] and New Zealand [27]), Europe (rest of EU [5,28] and the United Kingdom (UK) [29]) as well as America (Argentine [30], Peru [31], Canada [32][33][34][35][36] and the US [14,37,38]).…”

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Agricultural Workforce Crisis in Light of the COVID-19 Pandemic

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COVID-19 and the restrictive measures towards containing the spread of its infections have seriously affected the agricultural workforce and jeopardized food security. The present study aims at assessing the COVID-19 pandemic impacts on agricultural labor and suggesting strategies to mitigate them. To this end, after an introduction to the pandemic background, the negative consequences on agriculture and the existing mitigation policies, risks to the agricultural workers were benchmarked across the United States’ Standard Occupational Classification system. The individual tasks associated with each occupation in agricultural production were evaluated on the basis of potential COVID-19 infection risk. As criteria, the most prevalent virus transmission mechanisms were considered, namely the possibility of touching contaminated surfaces and the close proximity of workers. The higher risk occupations within the sector were identified, which facilitates the allocation of worker protection resources to the occupations where they are most needed. In particular, the results demonstrated that 50% of the agricultural workforce and 54% of the workers’ annual income are at moderate to high risk. As a consequence, a series of control measures need to be adopted so as to enhance the resilience and sustainability of the sector as well as protect farmers including physical distancing, hygiene practices, and personal protection equipment.

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“…In the beginning, at least for the countries in the northern hemisphere, this was not a huge problem. However, the harvest of vegetables and fruits that are mostly perishable had declined due to labour shortages (Stephens et al, 2020;Phillipson et al, 2020). Research conducted for southern Italy showed the importance of temporary labour for farm-level operations.…”

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Assessing Impacts of COVID-19 on Agricultural Production and Food Systems in the World and in Turkey

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2020

Gaziantep University Journal of Social Sciences

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Korona virüs (COVID-19) pandemisi dünya gündemine 2020 yılının başında yıkıcı bir konu olarak girdi. Yeni nesil virüsünün sağlık ve yaşamın sürdürülebilirliğinin yanında ekonomik etkileri de görünür oldu. İnsanlar tarım ve gıda sistemlerinin önemini, bunların arzına erişimleri azaldığında fark ettiler. Bu yayın COVID-19'un tarım ve gıda sistemlerine olan etkisini hem dünya geneli hem de Türkiye için değerlendirme ve tartışmayı amaçlamıştır. Sektör ve buna bağlı olan sektörler hem talep hem de arz açısından olumsuz etkilendi. Tarımın karşı karşıya kaldığı değişiklikler dünya üzerinde neredeyse her yerde aynı oldu. Bu değişiklikler üretimin dönemselliği ve geçici ya da göçer işgücü arzı eksikliğine bağlı olarak oluşan arz daralması, dış ticarete bağlı fiyat artışları, karantina uygulamalarına bağlı talep daralması ve tüketici tercihlerinin değişmesi şeklindedir. Bu değişikliklerle başa çıkma ve geleceğe hazırlanmanın tek yolu tarım ve gıda sisteminin mevcut durumunu analiz etmek, üreticileri destekleyecek araçlar kullanmak, arz sistemlerini değişen tüketici eğilimlerine uyarlamak ve tüm canlıların gıda güvenliği ve güvencesini sağlamaktır. Küresel öngörüler Türkiye için de geçerlidir. Ek olarak, artan ihracat potansiyeli ile tarım ve gıda üretim endüstrilerini entegre etme olasılıkları nedeniyle Türkiye için fırsatlar bulunmaktadır.

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The COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Implications for Rural Economies

Cited by 137 publications

References 21 publications

Sustaining Rural Areas, Rural Tourism Enterprises and EU Development Policies: A Multi-Layer Conceptualisation of the Obstacles in Greece

Sustaining Rural Areas, Rural Tourism Enterprises and EU Development Policies: A Multi-Layer Conceptualisation of the Obstacles in Greece

Agricultural Workforce Crisis in Light of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Assessing Impacts of COVID-19 on Agricultural Production and Food Systems in the World and in Turkey

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