Rural Policy and Law

The content of the course includes the following:

• Introduction (Rural Policy and Law)

• Rural area and rural development.

• From exogenous to endogenous and sustainable rural development.

• The 'post-productive' countryside - Introduction to the geographies of the countryside and rural development today.

• Geographies of multifunctionality of agricultural production and agricultural households.

• Rural development practices: Direct food marketing and value added.

• Rural development practices and Geographies of Quality: concepts and definitions.

• Globalization of food production and consumption: product distribution networks, extended and short supply chains, globalization.

• Rural development practices: Agritourism, rural tourism, landscape conservation, environmental protection.

• Rural development practices: human resources, agricultural production and local development.

• From practices to policies: From structural policies to rural development policies in the EU.

• Rural development policies in the EU today: content and implementation and implementation assessment and future perspectives of rural development policies in the EU today.

• The future of the Greek countryside.