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Rural development is a vitally important policy area in the European Union. It works to improve aspects of the economic, environmental and social situation of the EU's rural areas. Rural regions cover 57% of the EU territory and 24% of the EU population. Together with intermediate regions they comprise 91% of the EU territory and 59% of the total EU population. Across the EU, the dimensions of the rural-urban territorial vary — fromcountries with an explicitly defined rural character (such as Ireland, Sweden, Finland, etc.) to Member States that tend to be more urbanised (such as the Benelux countries, Malta). The policy works essentially through seven-year rural development programmes (RDPs) – which operate at either national or regional level. These are funded from the EU budget, national / regional budgets and private sources. Rural Development policy targets rural areas as a whole, with a focus on ensuring the competitiveness of farms and forestry, delivering sustainable management of natural ressources and climate action as well as create growth and jobs in rural areas. == Budget == Rural development policy is financed by three categories of funding: * public money from the EU budget – i.e. from the EAFRD * public money from national / regional budgets – depending on whether the programme is national or regional * private money – in some cases, beneficiaries have to provide some funding themselves (from their own resources, a bank loan etc.) The expected total public spending (EU + national + regional) on rural development policy in the period between 2014-2020 is EUR 161 billion.〔http://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/rural-development-2014-2020/country-files/common/implementation-state-of-play_en.pdf〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「EU Rural Development Policy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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