International Comparative Rural Policy Studies
by Bernat Vilarasau 12/04/2014 Over the last two years I have been involved in an exciting social entrepreneurship experience. It was in December of 2011, when a group of seven entrepreneurs founded the Cooperative Sambucus sccp. But the real beginning of the initiative was two years before. At the time I was working as the 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 …
by the editors 18/09/2013 Will rural be the factor that saves civilization? In this lecture Ivan Emke argues that Rural created civilization througth rural innovations. In a light, right-to-the-point way he
by James D. Rossi, 21/06/2013 on day 4 of the 2013 Summer Insitute Today’s ICRPS focused on field visits which included stops at producers of EU Demonination of Origin products (DOP), representatives of the Local Action Group (LAG) L’Altra Romagna, and an agritourism hotel/restaurant. DOP limits both the geographical region in which a good can Read More …
by the editors, 06/02/2013 OECD 8th Rural Development Policy Conference: The presentations of the OECD 8th Rural Development Policy Conference are now available online. Rural Land in Australia: A framework for the measurement and analysis of nationwide patterns of ownership change, aggregation and fragmentation. The Greening of Canadian Agriculture – How to make farmers better stewards of the Read More …
by Eric Marr, 26/11/12 I expect few would doubt that the agriculture sector is treated as a special case by governments. There are examples of exemptions from environmental regulations, labour laws, and even market forces. However this raises the question, should agriculture be treated as a special case? I have been hearing it argued more Read More …
by Terence Merritt 09/11/2012 The short answer is very little impact. Here are two reasons why: First, not a lot has changed. President Obama is relected, the Democratic Party retains control of the Senate, and the Republican Party retains control of the House. The political landscape at the federal level remains similar to the last Read More …
by the editors 16/10/2012 A geography professor at the University of Guelph says to the BBC that we are currently eating more food than we are producing. In Africa, the well known migration pattern from the rural to the urban seems to be slowing down, according to researchers. Superweeds, superpests: The Legacy of Pesticides Recently Read is a Read More …
by the editors 19/09/2012 Recently Read is a weekly column where we share some of the links we have come across that are related to rural development in one way or the other, and that we think Summer Institute alumni will find interesting. Farming Goes High-Tech In The Amazon For research to move from the Read More …