1st Edition
The EU’s External Governance of Agriculture and Rural Development Shaping Rural Spaces
By Laura Gelhaus
Copyright 2025
188 Pages
by
Routledge
188 Pages
by
Routledge
188 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book explores how the EU externally governs through agriculture and rural development and how this external governance shapes rural spaces in Georgia.
Analysing two EU policy instruments – Geographical Indications and the LEADER rural development programme – the book develops a novel way of studying the consequences of EU external actions ‘on the ground’ by bringing in sociological, rural... Read more
1. Introduction
2. The European Union in Georgia and the world: Role concepts, external governance, and beyond
3. Shaping rural spaces
4. Global pressures, enlargement, and EU-ropean rural spaces from productivism to multifunctionality
5. EU rural policies in Georgia
6. Geographical Indications and LEADER in Georgian rural spaces
7. Conclusion
Biography
Laura Gelhaus is Assistant Professor in PPE at the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick, UK.
