LOCAL ACTION GROUPS - A POSSIBILITY OF RURAL AREA AND TRADITIONAL PRODUCTS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. IMPORTANCE AND PROPOSALS

Abstract

The lack of a realist vision of European village’s future, on the necessary qualifications in the process of activities diversification, which would lay the foundations for a multifunctional rural development, is becoming more and more acute. The LAG represents the concrete solution, the transformation into reality of the potential that local communities can capitalize on in order to join this new approach to the development of the European village, an approach that encourages the return and/or establishment of young people in rural territory and its economic, social and cultural development,. Communities thus manage to exploit new ways to become or remain competitive, to exploit their goods and resources to the maximum, as well as to overcome the various difficulties they encounter, such as the aging population, the reduced level of health benefits services, the absence of employment opportunities or the large discrepancy regarding the development degree comparing to urban areas.