%0 Journal Article %T SUSTAINABLE RURAL DEVELOPMENT BASED ON DEVELOPMENT OF NON-AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES %A VERGINA CHIRI£¿ESCU %A CAMELIA GAVRILESCU %A MIHAELA KRUZSLICIKA %A CAMELIA TOMA %J Lucr£¿ri £¿tiin£¿ifice : Management Agricol %D 2009 %I %X The Romanian rural economy diversification is a key-problem for a successful rural development policy, in the conditions when the rural area capacity to maintain or create jobs will have a main impact upon the unemployment rate and migration flows. A wide range of non-agricultural economic activities, alternative, complementary and related to agriculture, can be stimulated to develop in rural Romania, in the conditions when the financial resources from the EU rural development programs can be absorbed. Besides other positive effects, the non-agricultural activities will also lead to the increase of rural area attractiveness from the economic, investment, social, tourism etc. point of view. %K agriculture %K rural development %K non-agricultural activities %U http://www.usab-tm.ro/%5CPdf%5C2009%5Cxi1%5Cdezv_rurala09_31.pdf