International Comparative Rural Policy Studies
Blog #00 – June 30, 2014 by Bill Reimer It looks like we are all here in Toluca – safe and sound. Several of the participants had arrived earlier so I can only report on my adventures en route. After an uneventful (thankfully) flight from Montréal I stood in line for customs, then baggage – Read More …
by Bill Reimer, 25/07/2014 We are pleased to announce our receipt of a 7-year grant from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada. The project is entitled “The Rural Policy Learning Commons: building rural policy through international comparative analysis” (RPLC). This award will support partnership development activities among researchers, students, policy-makers, practitioners, and Read More …
By the editors 06/06/2014 Report: Organic Industry Achieved 25 Years of Fast Growth Throught Fear and Deception: organic is the fastest-growing consumer food and lifestyle trend in modern history. The “Organic Marketing Report” by Academics Review looks at the 25-year history of the modern organic industry. An example of this kind of organic marketing or Read More …
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 …
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 …
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 …
by the editors 20/04/2014 Exploring Rurality has now been around for two full years! In April 2012, Katja and Kjersti posted the first blog post on this ICRPS alumni blog, hoping that is would become a meeting point and discussion forum for all previous ICRPS participants and its faculty members. Since then, we have posted Read More …
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 5/4/2014 The FAO makes some interesting infographics. Here´s one on how aquaculture can both feed and employ Africa´s young population Many ICRPS participants have spent time discussing what “sustainable” beef really means. Now McDonald´s is also eager to put it´s two cents in (via National Public Radio). We should never stop asking where Read More …
by the editors 28/03/2014 Exploring Rurality was founded two years ago by ICRPS alumnae Kjersti Nordskog and Katja Cappelen as a place for professional discussion, exchange of ideas and community building within the ICRPS network. In November 2012 Exploring Rurality was lucky to have ICRPS alumni Eric Marr from Canada join the editor team. Now Read More …