| dc.contributor.author | De Vries, Walter Timo | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-03-21T09:47:42Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-03-21T09:47:42Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | De Vries, W.T., (2018): Revisiting Rural Development: How Can we Make Rural Regions Lucrative and Attractive in a Participatory Manner?, in Kinyashi, G.F., Mwang’onda, E., Mdendemi, T.R.K., Mandara, C.G., and Hauli, E., (eds.), Conference Proceedings for an International Conference on Planning and Development under the theme Towards Industrialisation in the Global South: Making Rural Regions Inclusive, held at the Institute of Rural Development Planning-Dodoma June 28-30, 2018. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-9976-9974-0-8 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://repository.irdp.ac.tz/handle/123456789/436 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Rural development has undergone many changes in the past decades, both conceptually as
well as practically. An historical bibliometric study of the past 70 years reveals various
dramatic paradigm shifts, expressed through an initial key emphasis on agricultural
production to flexible discourse touching upon a wide spectrum of inter-related issues, such
as food, water and land tenure security, energy supply, village renewal, agro- and ecological
tourism, and digital connections, amongst others. As a result of the shifts in
conceptualisation, strategies for rural development have altered as well, from top-down agroeconomic optimization strategies towards bottom-up and middle-out participatory strategies
focusing on integrated socio-economic development, preserving and revitalizing spatial
identity, and ensuring equal opportunities between urban and rural regions. This paper
zooms in to the contemporary implementation challenges of rural development, specifically:
how to make rural regions lucrative and attractive at the same time; and how to ensure that
participatory approaches to do so work. Addressing these questions is based on practical
experience in Bavaria, Germany, and on a content-centred review of rural development
practices in sub-Saharan Africa. As lucrativeness and attractiveness may represent two
different value systems; getting the better of the two words seems at first contradictory.
However, there are a number of conditions under which they can simultaneously be achieved;
nonetheless, it does not come by itself. It requires a lot of stimulation, activation and
engagement of local leaders, citizens and local firms. A Mayor would for example play a
crucial role in fostering inspiration and aspiration. Citizens should be engaged and feel
proud of the uniqueness of their region and the related socio-spatial identity. Local firms
should remain actively involved in pursuing quality products and services. Together these will
ensure realization of hard and soft measures to support rural development | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | IRDP | en_US |
| dc.title | Revisiting Rural Development: How Can we Make Rural Regions Lucrative and Attractive In A Participatory Manner? | en_US |
