A Perspective about Rural Entrepreneurship in Belgium and Spain

Abstract

Rural areas present now a double challenge is: improving competitiveness by adding value to agricultural products and finding alternative activities such as forms of rural tourism. Dependenceon a limited number of products in some regions may make them vulnerable to economic crises or restructuring threats. The purpose of this article is to present some aspects of rural entrepreneurship. The methodused is based on a comparative analysis between two countries considering the population involved in rural activities and the rural development programs applied in these countries.

Keywords

• Rural entrepreneurs
• rural areas
• rural infrastructure