Agricultural Economics, 2008 (vol. 54), issue 12

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Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2008, 54(12):X1 | DOI: 10.17221/288-AGRICECON  

LEADER in the Czech Republic and farming sector

H. Hudečková, M. Lošťák

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2008, 54(12):555-566 | DOI: 10.17221/289-AGRICECON  

The paper addresses the LEADER approach in the Czech Republic. Using documentary research and content analysis of the appropriate documents and the Local Action Groups information sheets, the paper firstly outlines the evolution of the LEADER approach in the Czech Republic (the paper points out the difference in understanding LEADER in the EU /focusing on capacity building and the use of intangible forms of capital/ and in the Czech Republic EU /focusing on investments/). The paper also analyses the participation of farmers and the farming related actors in the LEADER approach (approx. 30% of local action groups are composed by those actors, however,...

Marginalised groups of rural population

S. Buchta, Z. Štulrajter

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2008, 54(12):566-574 | DOI: 10.17221/285-AGRICECON  

The paper deals with the analysis of the typology of unemployed people in agriculture. Approximately 35-40% of people from this unemployment group have already no more chance to be reintegrated into the labour market. The analysis points to out the regional occurrence of this type of unemployment (less urbanised sub-mountain areas, stagnating and backward regions facing various processes of de-industrialisation, etc) and evaluates its wider socio-economic impacts. After 2000, the fragmentation of employment contracts in the corporative types of farms (agricultural co-operatives and companies) begins to appear in the agricultural sector. The category...

Political mediation and participation in the Czech rural areas

J. Čmejrek

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2008, 54(12):575-581 | DOI: 10.17221/286-AGRICECON  

The objective of this paper is to show the mediation between citizens and political power by political parties in Czech rural areas. The position of political parties in rural municipalities is demonstrated in two perspectives. The top-down perspective is based on the distribution of several tens of thousands mandates in local municipal councils between political parties. The opposite perspective provides the bottom-up point of view - from the level of the individual municipalities, their party systems and party organisational structures. The analysis of the municipal election results reveals clearly that the role of political parties in local politics...

The need of information and extension service for the countryside and its development (the opinions of local actors)

L. Kocmánková-Menšíková

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2008, 54(12):583-596 | DOI: 10.17221/287-AGRICECON  

The article starts with the theoretical definitions of various concepts (rural space, endogenous approach to the rural development, the actor operating in the particular locality for its development). Concerning the know-how of the rural/local actor, the information acquired also through extension service takes important position there. The methodological approach explains the use of sociological methods and techniques employed in research in two localities. This is continued by the analysis of the data gathered. The conclusions of the paper evaluate the knowledge from the group interviews and discuss the necessity of establishing an "institute" the...