Abstract

The correlation between Education and Development has been widely investigated under the point of view of Economics, referring to the labour-intensive sectors and effects on their efficiency, as well as in the Social Sciences point of view, by focusing on the characteristics of the rural population, structure and cohesion, gender issues and the output it has on the development of agriculture in a given area. Referring to access policies into Agri-environmental schemes we will discuss the adoption of new technologies for sustainable rural development, environmental enhancement of the farm and the caution laissez-faire attitude to environmental protection. The data set selected for elaboration on this article are produced by the ISTAT institute on tome series from 2010 to 2015. Attention in this paper was focused on whether education level, age and gender has influenced social policies and the decision-making of producer policies. The results of this research are to investigate and affect factors on agricultural development by proposing a specific framework of analysis and interpretation including correlations existing between age, education and farmer contractors, demographic density changes and the empirical approaches, adopted by rural sociologist.

Highlights

  • Over the last decades development issues and the process of evolution in rural activity or farming has faced an increased emphasis on rural area

  • This research will investigate the relationship between education, age and behaviour on farmers’ choice to participate in European financiered programmes for young farmers

  • The second group “age of farming” how we defined, this group is dominant and might fulfil the agreement on social, economic and structural influences on strategic decision-making from the European Union in the agriculture sector

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Introduction

Over the last decades development issues and the process of evolution in rural activity or farming has faced an increased emphasis on rural area This process seeks progress on social change and sustainable economic development for rural community’s ongoing relevance on environmental change. We need to figure out how the influence of farmers could affect economic growth, improving social conditions and workers’ conditions according to a bottom-up approach, through the participation and the investigation of the intergenerational impact of farmers’ educational attainment on rural development (Alphonsus & Sabran, 2016). Rural Development (RDP) manage and facilitate the access of farmers promoting innovative techniques for young farmers between the ages of 18 and 40 who are owners of an individual business or a farm This programme under the Rural Development Programme (RDP) 2014-2020 is financed from the European Community “Support for local development” Rural Development Programme (RDP, 2015). We will investigate over a large scale of ages the so-called “young farmer” that is extended from 35 to 65 years old, as well as discuss which are the policies and the options to increase productivity in farming approaches in the social and environmental local context

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