This edition of the ENRD's EU rural review focuses on re-imagining the opportunities for rural business development and change. Without seeking to ignore the many challenges facing Europe's rural areas, we explore some of the latest thinking and practice in how rural entrepreneurship can be supp...
Rural areas across Europe are undergoing rapid change. Transition contains risk but also real opportunity for rural areas to play a new and distinct role. Whereas previous editions of the EU Rural Review have covered initiatives to boost rural economies and businesses, this edition focuses on bo...
Innovation is at the heart of the Europe 2020 strategy, which aims to promote smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. As this issue of the EU Rural Review highlights, innovation in agriculture and rural development extends to areas such as food chain organisation and risk management, preserving...
This edition of the ENRD’s EU Rural Review considers why increasing and improving stakeholder involvement in rural development policy is so important and some of the ways in which stakeholder involvement can be enhanced and supported in practice. It pays particular attention to where rural polic...
Rural Europe plays a central role in the provision of environmental services such as preserving biodiversity, contributing to climate regulation — by reducing emissions and sequestering carbon, protecting water quality and availability, preserving soil functionality and air quality, reinforcing ...