Geographical Indications and Territories with Specific Geographical Features in the EU: the Cases of Mountain and Island Areas

Fabien Santini, Fatmir Guri, Audrey Aubard and Sergio Gomez Y Paloma

No 204145, 145th Seminar, April 14-15, 2015, Parma, Italy from European Association of Agricultural Economists

Abstract: One of the goals of geographical indications in the EU is to contribute to rural development of remote and less-favoured areas. On the base of a rough estimation of the uptake of geographical indications in mountain and island areas of the EU, it can be concluded that indeed agricultural and food producers of such areas demonstrate a significantly higher use of geographical indication than average in the EU. However, the differences of geographical features reflect themselves in the fact that this use is not uniform: mountain stakeholders do rely more on geographical indications than islands ones. This is an indication that regional and/or rural policies need to be tailored to the local geographical, economic and social specificities of each area concerned.

Keywords: Agricultural and Food Policy; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Institutional and Behavioral Economics; Political Economy; Public Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 17
Date: 2015-04
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.204145

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