European agricultural fund for rural development: europe investing in rural local initiative group devnya aksakovo

RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (2007 – 2013)

EUROPEAN AGRICULTURAL FUND FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT: EUROPE INVESTING IN RURAL

„Territory is a piece of art: maybe the highest, most hearty, which humanity ever expressed. As oppose to many pieces of art (in painting, sculpture, architecture) or techniques which are produced by man through modeling nonliving matter, territory is a product through a dialogue, a connection between living matter, man and nature during the long period of history. This is a mutual composition, jointly developing, growing with time… The territory arises from the conception of nature by culture. The living being resulting of this has character, personality, identity, perceived in the landscape’s marks”.

The development of rural economics can be determined (Robertson, 1993) as “a process of conservative change which aims to improve quality of life of the rural municipality through sustainable internal and local actions of reanimation, reproduction, integration and economic development integrated in the rural world in the logic of activating and self-development”. As development of rural economics understood is the social and economic development of out-of-town regions characterized by the competitive disadvantages with regards to territory, service, knowledge and opportunities. Regardless that the disadvantages are often considered in a residuale way as all of this that is not urban is considered to be rural territory which “main part” is used for agriculture, forestry, water economics and fishing due to economic and cultural activities of its residents due to the recreation not “the urban way” and leisure with the purpose of abitativi. To actualize this objective the European Commission – Chief Directorate Agriculture determined some main principles for the new rural regions development policy:

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  The multi-functionality of agriculture exceeds its multivalent role outside of the regular food production. This imposes the recognition and promotion of a set of services offered by the farmers;
  
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  A very multi-sectional and integrated presentation of the rural economics with the purpose to diversify to create new sources of income and employment and preserving the agriculture;
  
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  The flexibility of rural regions development support based on the support and facilitation decentralization of consultancies on regional and local level and of partnership;
  
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  The suitable method turned to a bigger integration of various influences with the purpose to ensure harmonic development of rural territories.
  

1. Competitiveness by increasing the value of the product biodiversity: integration and development of the supply chain.

2. Improvement of environment and rural territory through increase of the value of biodiversity of agro-systems: environment and territory.

3. Improvement of the quality of life and changes of activities through increase of the value of social and cultural impact on biodiversity: to enhance the quality and access to services for the citizens and economic specialists. This objective is of crucial importance for the support of overcoming the damages that can be localized in these marginal zones (and in the same time are a risk of even greater depopulation) as far as access to services and information, as for the urban citizens so as to smaller enterprises that are often among the main reasons for abandonment of territories mostly by young people. In this field it’s possible to be stimulated a new entrepreneurship through social support in creating integrated roads and packages by supporting increasing the value and linking the historical and natural cases by various territories as well as to re-qualify the populated centers to such with touristic value. Many of these ecologic functions comply with uses of economic type. The economic size of biodiversity is in fact directly related to uses resulting of the value of using and not using the natural capital. An additional level of using biodiversity exists which is very important in the rural regions i.e. the link between biodiversity and cultural diversity.

In conclusion to be recognized, preserved, used own resources with regards to the biodiversity is functional regarding the local societies development process because values which are created are, besides regarding the environment, economic, social and cultural as well. These values then turn into resources, heritage of local identity, elements around which to be established the components that are not only profitable for development. In the end, when developing the rural region necessary is to overcome the branch programming so the territory can be adjusted as the real executor of competitiveness: “Bio” is understood in the wide aspect – everything is related to identity of territory, diversity in individuals and in the lifestyle.

The mission of LIG DEVNYA – AKSAKOVO can be summarized in the following few words: “RURAL TERRITORY DEVELOPMENT – TERRITORY OF TRADITIONS, CULTURAL AND NATURAL HERITAGE”.

LIG DEVNYA – AKSAKOVO considers for exceptionally important the realization of the Quality System in its own organization in order to guarantee constant search and engagement directed to improvement of company processes which allows to be guaranteed:

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  territory satisfaction
  
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  ensuring constant quality level of provided services
  
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  efficiency of activated processes
  
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