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In Lithuania, as in many countries around the world, observed the phenomenon of demographic aging. Concerns about demographic aging pose a debate not only in scientific but also in political discourse. The international community has begun to draw more attention to the demographic aging challenges and search for measures to mitigate them. The share of 65 years and older population in rural areas is bigger than in cities. To ensure the older population dignified, healthy, active aging is important to ensure their access to main public services, which supply in rural areas is more complicated, compare with the cities. Scientists, politicians raises the question - is it good to grow old in rural areas? For public sector organizations that seek to optimize the delivery of public services is important to know the level of customer satisfaction, to assess it in order to make appropriate decisions on further action. The aim of research – to assess attitudes of elderly rural residents toward public services delivery and their opinion on opportunities to volunteer by themselves. The study identifies main tendencies of demographic aging in rural areas, overviews the challenges of aging. Discuss the supply of public services in rural areas aspects and obstacles. The alternatives for traditional public service delivery strategies were overviewed. A structures opinion survey about elderly rural resident's attitudes toward public services delivery was performed. 5 spheres of public services were researched: transport, social services, family doctor accessibility, cultural activity, feeling of safety. Respondents were also asked about volunteering experience. According to the results of survey elder rural resident are not satisfied about transport service delivery, the most difficulties were experienced by living alone, living in remote areas and having worse health state.

In Lithuania, as in many countries around the world, observed the phenomenon of demographic aging. Concerns about demographic aging pose a debate not only in scientific but also in political discourse. The international community has begun to draw more attention to the demographic aging challenges and search for measures to mitigate them. The share of 65 years and older population in rural areas is bigger than in cities. To ensure the older population dignified, healthy, active aging is important to ensure their access to main public services, which supply in rural areas is more complicated, compare with the cities. Scientists, politicians raises the question - is it good to grow old in rural areas? For public sector organizations that seek to optimize the delivery of public services is important to know the level of customer satisfaction, to assess it in order to make appropriate decisions on further action. The aim of research – to assess attitudes of elderly rural residents toward public services delivery and their opinion on opportunities to volunteer by themselves. The study identifies main tendencies of demographic aging in rural areas, overviews the challenges of aging. Discuss the supply of public services in rural areas aspects and obstacles. The alternatives for traditional public service delivery strategies were overviewed. A structures opinion survey about elderly rural resident's attitudes toward public services delivery was performed. 5 spheres of public services were researched: transport, social services, family doctor accessibility, cultural activity, feeling of safety. Respondents were also asked about volunteering experience. According to the results of survey elder rural resident are not satisfied about transport service delivery, the most difficulties were experienced by living alone, living in remote areas and having worse health state.

This paper presents a New Social Movement approach to the studies of local food system development. It aims to identify whether local food initiatives coalesce into a movement in Lithuania, drawing on the characteristics derived from the New Social Movement theory. Discourse analysis and semi-structured interviews with representatives of local food organizations and initiatives are applied as main methods of the study. Results reveal that social processes around local food are characterized by much unified commitment of participants to a cause, moderately expressed opposition to the adversary of movement, and fainting networking among them. The evidence of all applied characteristics suggests that local food movement is present in Lithuania yet in the incoherent and insubstantial form. ; Straipsnyje pateikiamas vietos maisto sistemos raidos vertinimas iš naujųjų socialinių judėjimų teorinės prieigos. Remiantis šios prieigos išskiriamais socialinių judėjimų bruožais, siekiama nustatyti, ar vietos maisto iniciatyvos Lietuvoje priklauso socialiniam judėjimui. Pagrindiniai tyrimo metu taikomi metodai – diskurso analizė ir pusiau struktūruoti interviu su vietos maisto organizacijų ir iniciatyvų atstovais. Atliktas tyrimas parodė, kad socialiniai procesai, susiję su vietos maistu Lietuvoje, pasižymi labai vieninga dalyvių pozicija dėl bendro siekiamo tikslo, vidutiniškai išreikšta konfliktine sąveika su judėjimo oponentu ir silpnėjančia tarpusavio tinklaveika. Socialinio judėjimo bruožų vertinimas leidžia daryti išvadą, kad vietos maisto judėjimas Lietuvoje egzistuoja, tačiau kol kas nėra nei nuoseklus, nei įsitvirtinęs.

Crisis of recent decade had proved many times the interconnectivity and interdependency among all actors, sectors and areas of concern throughout the globalized value chains. Today sustainable development strategies are under reconstruction by global governance bodies together with stakeholders from around the world, concerning the main issue of durable future. Agriculture as main provider of public goods, recently had experienced pressure from public society and entered the debates for an essential review of the underlying support principles, based on multifunctionality, which hardly meet the goals of sustainable development. Recently some evidence appeared that the gap between multifunctionality and sustainability might be closed with help of corporate social responsibility (CSR). The paper aims to disclose the challenges and incentives which accelerated the origination of CSR concept and related discussions in an agrarian discourse through the provision of public goods. Systemic analysis and synthesis of theoretical insights of foreign and local scientific literature and the methods of induction and deduction were applied to investigate the theoretical aspect and characteristics of CSR and public goods in agrarian discourse. Theoretical research results propose that the concept of CSR does provide a basis for further analysis and discussion concerning the role of agriculture as a subject of government support from a broader systems perspective, which means a shift in paradigms, emphasized by movement from the sectoral policy and agricultural support to a more inclusive place-based development.

Crisis of recent decade had proved many times the interconnectivity and interdependency among all actors, sectors and areas of concern throughout the globalized value chains. Today sustainable development strategies are under reconstruction by global governance bodies together with stakeholders from around the world, concerning the main issue of durable future. Agriculture as main provider of public goods, recently had experienced pressure from public society and entered the debates for an essential review of the underlying support principles, based on multifunctionality, which hardly meet the goals of sustainable development. Recently some evidence appeared that the gap between multifunctionality and sustainability might be closed with help of corporate social responsibility (CSR). The paper aims to disclose the challenges and incentives which accelerated the origination of CSR concept and related discussions in an agrarian discourse through the provision of public goods. Systemic analysis and synthesis of theoretical insights of foreign and local scientific literature and the methods of induction and deduction were applied to investigate the theoretical aspect and characteristics of CSR and public goods in agrarian discourse. Theoretical research results propose that the concept of CSR does provide a basis for further analysis and discussion concerning the role of agriculture as a subject of government support from a broader systems perspective, which means a shift in paradigms, emphasized by movement from the sectoral policy and agricultural support to a more inclusive place-based development.

Crisis of recent decade had proved many times the interconnectivity and interdependency among all actors, sectors and areas of concern throughout the globalized value chains. Today sustainable development strategies are under reconstruction by global governance bodies together with stakeholders from around the world, concerning the main issue of durable future. Agriculture as main provider of public goods, recently had experienced pressure from public society and entered the debates for an essential review of the underlying support principles, based on multifunctionality, which hardly meet the goals of sustainable development. Recently some evidence appeared that the gap between multifunctionality and sustainability might be closed with help of corporate social responsibility (CSR). The paper aims to disclose the challenges and incentives which accelerated the origination of CSR concept and related discussions in an agrarian discourse through the provision of public goods. Systemic analysis and synthesis of theoretical insights of foreign and local scientific literature and the methods of induction and deduction were applied to investigate the theoretical aspect and characteristics of CSR and public goods in agrarian discourse. Theoretical research results propose that the concept of CSR does provide a basis for further analysis and discussion concerning the role of agriculture as a subject of government support from a broader systems perspective, which means a shift in paradigms, emphasized by movement from the sectoral policy and agricultural support to a more inclusive place-based development.

Crisis of recent decade had proved many times the interconnectivity and interdependency among all actors, sectors and areas of concern throughout the globalized value chains. Today sustainable development strategies are under reconstruction by global governance bodies together with stakeholders from around the world, concerning the main issue of durable future. Agriculture as main provider of public goods, recently had experienced pressure from public society and entered the debates for an essential review of the underlying support principles, based on multifunctionality, which hardly meet the goals of sustainable development. Recently some evidence appeared that the gap between multifunctionality and sustainability might be closed with help of corporate social responsibility (CSR). The paper aims to disclose the challenges and incentives which accelerated the origination of CSR concept and related discussions in an agrarian discourse through the provision of public goods. Systemic analysis and synthesis of theoretical insights of foreign and local scientific literature and the methods of induction and deduction were applied to investigate the theoretical aspect and characteristics of CSR and public goods in agrarian discourse. Theoretical research results propose that the concept of CSR does provide a basis for further analysis and discussion concerning the role of agriculture as a subject of government support from a broader systems perspective, which means a shift in paradigms, emphasized by movement from the sectoral policy and agricultural support to a more inclusive place-based development.