Recently Read: Putting Food Waste on the Agenda

by the editors 25/05/2014 Your food is a super model. Watch Berlin based Anja Fiedler from “Harvest the City” (German: Stadt macht satt) speak about great soulutions to food waste on TEDx Hamburg: The U.S. Global Change Research Program recently released their latest climate assessment report (released every four years). The agricultural sector is addressed in Chapter Read More …

Recently Read: Fruits and vegetables with and without poison.

by the editors 07/05/2014 These are some rural development releveant articled we have read recently. Hope you´ll find them as interesting as we do! Replacing value chains with value networks – Regional Values in Freiburg (thanks John Devlin @jfdevlin) A new Report states that widely-used neonicotinoid seed treatments are unnecessary in most cases  (thanks John Read More …

New Issue of JRCD: “Community Impacts from Large Oil and Natural Gas Ventures in Rural and Remote Areas”

by Doug Ramsey, 20/4/2014 The Journal of Rural and Community Development (JRCD) is pleased to announce the release of Volume 9, Issue 1 (2014) titled ‘Community Impacts from Large Oil and Natural Gas Ventures in Rural and Remote Areas.’ The special issue editors are Andrew Taylor (Charles Darwin University, Australia) and Dean Carson (Flinders University Read More …