International Comparative Rural Policy Studies
by the editors 19/12/2013 Dear readers, Thank you for following our rural storytelling this year. A special thank to all those who have contributed to the blog with insights, research perspectives or personal stories from the rural fields this past year. Your contributions are much appriciated! Exploring Rurality will be back early 2014. Untill then Read More …
by the editors, 18/12/2013 Here is a sampling of what we have Recently Read, just in time for the holidays! The proceedings of the Rural Canada: Ready to Grow conference, hosted by the Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation, are available online Europe’s Common Agricultural Policy: Taking Care of Our Roots from the European Commission presents an interactive, easy Read More …
by Neus Monllor, 13/12/2013 In 2011 I defended a PhD Thesis about how young people are entering agriculture. Thanks to the ICRPS program I could finish a comparative exploratory study between two different areas, one in southern Ontario (Canada) and the other one in Catalonia (Spain). One of the main results of the research was Read More …
by the editors, 4/12/2013 The Norwegian Agricultural Research Institute (NILF), ICRPS´ Norwegian Partner has a PhD-scholarship available. The scholarship is part of the project “Agronomy for increased food production in Norway, challenges and solutions” – a partnership between the Norwegian Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research (Bioforsk), Norwegian University of Life Sciences, NILF and other national Read More …
by the editors, 01/12/2013 Curious about what we have read lately? Here is a few links that we hope can be of interest to you: A personal story about climate change and smallholder farmers “What My Great Grandfather Taught Me About Climate Change And Agriculture“ Economic growth is not everything, GDP does not capture the Read More …