Multifunctionality and rural development: the actual situation in Europe

Rural development is regarded as a reaction on the modernization paradigm that has dominated agricultural development in the last decades. The farm income basis can be diversified by broadening, deepening and regrounding the farm enterprise. What this exactly means and in how far European farmers are already engaged in the rural development paradigm is analyzed in this chapter.

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