Innovation In Rural Development Research Articles

ENABLING INNOVATION IN RURAL DEVELOPMENT TO ACHIEVE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

To ensure sustainable development, there is a limit to the extent of urbanization. Thus, rural development is an essential strategy that many nations must work on to ensure optimal economic, environmental, and social outcomes at a country level. However, rural development in itself is challenging because rural communities typically have limited resources and capabilities to address common livelihood challenges, let alone take on new economic roles. Hence, as part of rural revitalization strategies, innovation plays a critical role. A wide range of technologies can facilitate innovation in rural development, including the internet and new agricultural technologies. In addition, new mindsets and shifts in values, such as the changing trends of work and consumerism, can create opportunities for rural areas to adopt innovation and develop new growth engines. However, it should be noted that the nature of innovation in rural and urban settings are different. In rural regions, growth could be enabled through more specific types of innovations, including frugal innovation, inclusive innovation, and social innovation. To enable these forms of innovations in rural areas, this paper proposes a three-dimensional process model that includes pro-social technological innovation policy, rural innovation governance, and dynamic networks that close the gap between rural and urban innovation systems. Examples from China, such as the development of Tengtou Village and Taobao Villages serve to demonstrate these concepts. Overall, the discussions in the paper suggest that to enable innovation in rural development, it is necessary to foster closer interactions between rural and urban innovation ecosystems for the former to leverage the latter’s technologies, networks, and resources.

Building Partnership for Social Innovation in Rural Development: Case Studies in Coastal Villages in Indonesia

As an archipelagic country, Indonesia has the potential for marine resources that can guarantee the welfare of the community. Coastal villages face infrastructure limitations that hinder the development of marine resource-based potential businesses. This paper elaborates on the importance of partnership to increase the coastal community’s participation in creating social innovation. It is argued that a solid and collaborative action can boost the acceleration of coastal development among community members. This paper was developed from a qualitative study in several West Java and Gorontalo province’s coastal villages. Data collected from interviews and discussions with coastal village community groups were collected in 2021. The result shows that community partnerships can be proposed to create more social innovation in optimizing marine resources. The result implies that social innovation can be developed by a close partnership between community members and the village government in development planning and its implementation. Community partnerships with the government and private businesses designed in village development programs can encourage social innovation so that marine resources can be managed economically. Furthermore, social innovation can become capital for developing local businesses to increase community marine economic activities’ capacity.

Innovation in Rural Development in Bangladesh: A Case of Some Rural Development Institutions

The conceptual basis for this study can be briefly stated as follows. Any innovation in rural development does not happen simply through the introduction of new technologies and new policies, though they are often quite valuable. It is now argued that the circumstances that lead to innovation are often unplanned, serendipitous, path dependent and as a result, specific to the location. This idea places a lot of emphasis on the ingenuity of entrepreneurs and the like in adapting new and existing ideas to suit their need. These innovations are often part of informal networks that are sources of different ideas and expertise and used in often novel and unexpected ways.

Evolución de las aportaciones de los geógrafos ruralistas desde España: introducción al número especial

El trabajo realiza un recorrido por las principales temáticas de investigación de la Geografía Agraria y Rural española, a lo largo de su trayectoria en los últimos 60 años, teniendo presentes las reuniones del Grupo de Geografía Agraria/Rural desde su inicio. El denominador común a lo largo de esta trayectoria ha sido el de las problemáticas y los compromisos sociales de la disciplina geográfica en los territorios rurales. Desigualdad y necesidad de reforma en la estructura de la propiedad de la tierra, paisajes agrarios, regadíos, incidencia de la Política Agraria Comunitaria en los territorios y comunidades rurales, multifuncionalidad agraria, desarrollo y turismo rural, entre otros, han sido temas clásicos abordados por los geógrafos ruralistas en nuestro país. El trabajo culmina con la presentación de algunas de las temáticas más novedosas relacionadas con las dos últimas reuniones (innovación social en el desarrollo rural, vulnerabilidad y resiliencia rural, vaciamiento rural, patrimonialización del paisaje, nuevos actores rurales, entre otras), abordadas algunos trabajos relevantes presentes en este número.

Interpretations of Innovation in Rural Development. The Cases of Leader Projects in Lecce (Italy) and Granada (Spain) in 2007–2013 Period

Abstract In the Leader approach, innovation plays a key role in European territories, especially in marginal and peripheral ones, being essentially assumed, from a programmatic point of view, as social innovation. This paper aims to understand the interpretation and the declination of innovation in the practice of Leader initiative at local scale and analyze contextual factors related to its implementation in two southern provinces of Spain and Italy (Granada and Lecce). The study aims to analyze the projects reported as innovative by the leaders of the Local Action Groups, starting from the literature and using a key Community document entitled “Extended report on preserving the innovative character of LEADER”. Lastly, the study reveals common significant problems linked to local awareness of the role of social innovation, as well as the absence or limitations of key institutions.

Innovation in Rural Development - Bottom up Approach of Leadership to empowerpoor farmers

Innovation in Rural Development - Bottom up Approach of Leadership to empowerpoor farmers

Social innovation in rural development: identifying the key factors of success

In political and lay discourses, social innovation has recently been seen as a promising solution to fill gaps caused by austerity politics, or as a means to meet the so‐called Grand Challenges of the twenty‐first century. This article focuses on factors supporting the success of social innovation; that is, factors that support the development of a social innovation that enhances the probability of a high rate of adoption. To achieve this, the questions addressed are: Which factors bring forward social innovation? Where in the innovation process do they take effect? To what extent can rural development policy purposefully exert influence on these factors? Drawing on findings in innovation and social innovation research as well as from the rural participative planning discourse, it is shown that three tiers of factors influence the success of social innovation. These are: (1) factors important for the success of the overall innovation process; (2) factors influencing the room to manoeuvre for the social innovation actor network; and (3) factors influencing the actual participation process. A closer look at each of these factors reveals that most of them are excluded from external steering, and only factors influencing the room to manoeuvre provide potential links for rural policy to support social innovation. This allows one to conclude that social innovation in rural development cannot be easily initiated or steered from the top down, raising the question of whether social innovation can be politically instrumentalised.

Innovation in rural development in Puglia, Italy: critical issues and potentialities starting from empirical evidence

Since the 1990s, innovation has been recognised as having a key role in the development and competitiveness of European rural territories. In particular, in the LEADER approach, innovation is seen in social and cultural terms rather than as a technological issue, but it has been interpreted by national and, above all, local policies almost exclusively in the latter sense. Especially at local level, often a ‘productivist’ approach emerges that in many cases reveals deeply-rooted conservativeness in the planning and implementation of programmes. Puglia, a NUTS 2 region in southern Italy, acknowledges the key role of innovation in rural development and invested a bigger share of funding in Axes III and IV of Pillar 2 of the Common Agricultural Policy in the 2007-2013 programming cycle than did the other Italian regions. This study examines the regional case in two interconnected stages to identify fi rstly the interpretation of innovation from the programmatic and operative points of view, and secondly, the needs and critical issues in terms of innovation in governance on the local scale through interviews with stakeholders from a representative LAG named ‘Terra dei Messapi’. It reveals not only a marked disparity in the way innovation was interpreted, but also the limitations and critical issues in planning and in regional and local governance, which prove unable to embrace innovation affecting social and institutional processes and, more generally, processes related to the context.

지역사회 혁신을 촉진하기 위한 농촌활성화지원센터의 역할

Rural Research Institute, KRC, Ansan, Korea1)ABSTRACTThis study identifies the necessity and importance of innovation in rural communities and highlights the role of rural revitalization support centers in facilitating the diffusion of community innovation. The study provides a literature review and employs the survey method to verify the arguments.There is an urgent need for rural communities to be distinct, attractive, and competitive in the wake of globalization. It is clear that they must recognize the need to facilitate innovation under growing trends toward trade liberalization, environment-oriented life styles, diversified consumer needs, and a knowledge-based society. The results provide support for the legitimacy of establishing rural revitalization support centers to help community leaders and local stakeholders develop their communities. More specifically, rural communities should employ R&D outcomes from diverse fields and capacity building by community members, leaders, and local governments to foster sustainable growth by overcoming limitations in spatial access and resources. The results suggest that rural revitalization support centers can be established as intermediary organizations that can be operated to facilitate community innovation in rural development. In addition, these centers should play key roles such as empowering communities, facilitating region-specific rural development policies, motivating R&D applications for rural development, encouraging rural development networks. Further, close attention should be paid to facilitate mutual learning by expanding networks and interactions between these centers.,FZ XPSET : rural revitalization, community innovation, intermediary organization

Patriarchal bargains in protected spaces: a new strategy for agricultural and rural development innovation in the western hills of Nepal

This paper integrates the theory of patriarchal bargains and strategic niche management theory to study whether or not creating strategic niches of struggle and negotiation as opposed to indiscriminate gender mainstreaming can help secure rural women's rights. Empirical data for this study were collected on rural women's tasks, resources, and benefits in the Kaski district of western Nepal using mixed methods. Findings suggest that unless women find a protected niche in which they can struggle and negotiate for their rights, patriarchal bargains would not be successful, partly because of women's lower control over land and services associated with land.Résumé Cet article combine les approches de la négociation au sein des structures patriarcales et de la gestion stratégique de niche pour évaluer comment se comparent la création de niches stratégiques de lutte et de négociation et l'approche intégrée de l’égalité des sexes (gender mainstreaming) dans l'avancement et la sécurisation des droits des femmes rurales. À cette fin, l’étude a récolté et analysé des données sur le partage des tâches, des ressources et des bénéfices entre les femmes et les hommes du district de Kaski dans l'ouest du Népal. Les résultats indiquent qu'en partie à cause de leur plus faible niveau de contrôle sur l'accès à la terre et aux services liés au travail de la terre, les femmes ne sont pas bien servies par la négociation au sein des structures patriarcales à moins de trouver une niche protégée dans laquelle elles peuvent lutter et engager des négociations pour leurs droits.

Government–Third Sector Relations in European Rural Development: A Critical Perspective

AbstractRural development has significantly benefited from intensifying relations between the government and third sector organizations (TSOs) during the last several decades. TSOs can induce innovation in rural development in a variety of ways including advocacy, awareness raising, contracting, and direct delivery of public goods. However, there is a growing concern that these partnerships may be prone to inefficiencies due to adverse fundraising incentives. Utilizing Young’s (2000) typology in a literature review, this paper illuminates potential causes for mission and goal displacement due to adverse incentives generated by public funding programs. The paper suggests that complementary and supplementary TSOs are generally more likely to suffer from adverse incentives in comparison to adversarial ones. Institutional merging between the TSOs and the state may significantly limit the scope for innovation in rural development.

Social economy as a social innovation in rural development

Social economy as a social innovation in rural development