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Community Development Journal Advance Access originally published online on August 17, 2005
Community Development Journal 2005 40(4):425-432; doi:10.1093/cdj/bsi087
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Themes and issues

Rural crisis, good practice and community development responses

Marion Horton, Community Development Consultant & Trainer

Address for correspondence: 38 Knavesmire Crescent, York Y023 1ET, UK; email: marionhorton@marionhorton.co.uk

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   Introduction
 
Reflecting on the complexities of rural communities, it is clear that community development has played a valuable part in their regeneration and in social exclusion policies. However, the inequalities within British rural communities are still hidden behind a multifaceted jewel of scenery, outdated ideas of status and hierarchies, prejudice and even racism.

In recent years the European Union has dominated the direction of policy with the CAP (Common Agricultural Policy) and the deployment of the European Structural Funds for rural regeneration and EU Community Initiatives such as LEADER, and EU Objective Status 5b (where, in the UK, enormous amounts of funding went unspent).

Farm incomes have dropped dramatically and farmers are working longer hours as few can afford to employ farm workers. Relevant also is the impact of more recent national emergencies of BSE in cattle, scares about scrapies in sheep, and foot and mouth disease. Policy has been made . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   Categorization
 

   The rural idyll
 
Hill farming areas
Market towns
Fishing villages and coastal towns
Ex-industrial villages
Rural/urban fringe

   Good practice in rural community development
 

   Diversification in the rural economy
 

   The community roles of rural women
 

   Recognizing the links between poverty and rurality
 

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