In order to promote entrepreneurial activity and work in sparsely populated areas, it is essential to integrate industrial policy, agricultural policy and rural policy at the municipal level. More than 25 % of Finnish farms have diversified, i.e. they carry on other business in addition to farming (TIKE 2000). On-farm business diversification is one means how to make the net of regional economy thicker and denser in sparsely populated areas and to expand economic activity. The overall study examines the industrial and rural policy conditions for on-farm business diversification on the municipal level, and is based on the former experience and expertice of the involved researchers. The analysis continues the work done on rural policy implementation in municipalities (MTT Economic Research), on the politics of agricultural policy (MTT Economic Research), on the development of rural policy indicators or social capital (MTT Environmental Research), and on the entrepreneurial identity of diversified farmers (University of Helsinki, Dept of Social Psychology and Mikkeli Institute for Rural Research and Training). The aim of the overall study is to show the potential of and hinders for on-farm diversification as rural development policy in municipalities. The study will consist of two case studies in the sparsely populated eastern Finland. Methodologically the study will combine focus group interviews, personal interviews, policy analysis and network analysis with other qualitative analysis methods. The overall study started in April 2004, and will contribute to the policy formation of rural policy, industrial policy and agricultural policy - in particular as to integrating these policies, as to their implementation and as to the potential regionalisation of agricultural policy. This part of the study have started 1.4.2006, and will be reported in the end of the year 2007, as the form of two separate manuscript of scientific articles. This part of the study will be done using social capital perspective.
Vastaava tutkija
Vehmasto Elina Hankkeen kesto 2006 - 2008
Hankkeen vaihe: Päättynyt
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