In a word... by Yves Champetier, Director

Agriculture and rural development: the necessary convergence
Bertrand Hervieu advocates an agriculture in line with the expectations and interests of European societies and areas as a whole.

Three LEADER examples:

• Managing space to help young farmers get started
• Family holidays and quality agri-food products
• "Support for organic farming"

  European measures in favour of young farmers
  The reinforced application of Community and national measures is essential to make it easier for young people to go into farming and to enable them to actively contribute to the development of their area.

  From agricultural enterprise to rural enterprise
  In these two border counties, a number of farmers have embarked on a second activity that in many cases is replacing the first. Some farms are thus turning into genuine artisanal enterprises. With LEADER to help them.

  LEADER and agriculture in Carinthia (Austria) Local linkages
  The organisation of real "development sectors" with traditional but for many years underutilised local agricultural products is making it possible to reactivate the entire economy of the three areas of Carinthia concerned by LEADER.

  also published on paper format in LEADER Magazine nr.15 - Summer 1997