@article{Gore:201666,
      recid = {201666},
      author = {Gore, Tony and Powell, Ryan and Wells, Peter},
      title = {The contribution of rural community businesses to  integrated rural development: “Local services for local  people”},
      journal = {Cahiers d'Economie et de Sociologie Rurales (CESR)},
      address = {2006},
      number = {905-2016-70602},
      series = {80},
      year = {2006},
      abstract = {Policy responses to the problems facing rural areas across  Europe have involved the replacement of “productivist”  measures that subsidise agriculture to strategies promoting  “integrated rural development”, emphasising the  interconnections between various facets of the rural  economy. Thus farm modernisation and product processing and  marketing are linked with the promotion of a more  diversified economic base centred on tourism and recreation  and the maintenance of services for local residents. An  essential element of this model is its reliance on  collaborative actions involving a range of community or  civil society actors. This paper examines the extent to  which the operation of community-owned businesses in rural  parts of the Yorkshire and Humber region in the UK  corresponds to these ideals of integrated rural  development. Evidence is presented on their geographical  footprint with respect to both direct economic impacts and  linkages with social and institutional networks. This  allows an assessment to be made of the contribution that  such enterprises make to rural economic development as a  whole. The conclusion is that they do have the potential to  assist integrated rural development, but only as a small  part of a much wider series of economic, social and  environmental actions.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/201666},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.201666},
}