Public policy and family farmers. Territorial rural development with inclusion agreements as tools for a new national policy of rural development
Abstract
Family farming embraces a diversified range of working arrangements and life situations that fall beyond subsistence production and call for comprehensive development policies. During the past decade the need for the implementation of a model of a socially inclusive rural development as well as politically, economically and environmentally sustainable has begun to settle on both the public and the governmental agendas. Such a model should be based on the recognition of family farmers as subjects of sustainable strategies of economic development. This paper sets out the key features of the Territorial Rural Development with Inclusion Agreements (ATDRI) and Territorial Proposals of Inclusion Rural Development (PTDRI) as privileged tools for a new rural development policy.