Reflexiones en torno a la participación en el desarrollo rural. ¿reparto social o reforzamiento del poder? LEADER y PRODER en el sur de España

Abstract

Participation is a basic pillar of rural development. However, for several reasons (ie. political control, predominant top-down control models, focus on economic projects, etc.), the main contributions of Rural Development Programmes (RDP's) are controlled by a limited group of people - mainly local economic and political elites. Disadvantaged groups (such as women, young people, farm workers, unemployed, etc.) have been excluded. As such, it follows that rural development applications have a tendency to reinforce existing power structures. This is corroborated by an analysis of the implementation of RDP's in the province of Grenade, from 1991 to 2006.