Abstract:
Within the rural development, the agriculture of Romania holds an important weight, detaching itself by the contribution to the realization of the gross domestic product, as well as by about 29% of the employed population, returning 0.43 ha / inhabitant, compared to 0.21 ha / inhabitant in European Union. This explains why agriculture is a very attractive and profitable branch. In this context, the strategy of sustainable rural development and the increase of the performance and the competitiveness of the agricultural production at national, regional or local level, must start from the economic-financial analysis of the situation of the agricultural sector, according to which to proceed to the adoption of those measures that lead, firstly, to the increase of agricultural production and, secondly, to its efficiency by attracting European funds. The paper aims to identify the way of approaching sustainable development within the regional development strategies, having as a case study the North-East Region, and to evaluate the implementation of the strategic objectives, at regional level and in the rural environment. The main objectives come to meet the goal set by: the conceptual delimitation of sustainable development in a global, European and national context; assessing the dimension of the sustainable development phenomenon at global, European and national level; assessing the inter-correlation between the regional strategic objectives and the sustainable development objectives for the North-East Region (2007-2013 and 2014-2020); the projection of the evolution of the result indicators of the regional strategy for the period 2007-2020 (with target indicators for 2022), which highlights the contribution to ensuring regional and rural sustainable development, compared to the evolutionary trend from 2000-2013 and 2014-2020; identifying strategic proposals for ensuring regional and rural sustainable development.
