International Comparative Rural Policy Studies
by Doug Ramsey 04/02/2014 While the Journal of Rural Policy Studies conceived by ICRPS founders did not come to fruition, myself with others (including ICRPS members not mentioned in John Bryden’s history of ICRPS) did found the Journal of Rural and Community Development (JRCD) in 2005. Given my recent post about technology I thought it Read More …
by the editors 31/01/2014 Here is a sampling of what we have Recently Read. Enjoy! UN Report on Small-Scale Organic Farming LiDAR laser scanning reveals that New England once was quite a farming Eldorado (via sciencemag.org) ICRPS Faculty member Doug Ramsey wins award for research paper on how rural communities better can promote themselves as tourist Read More …
by John Bryden, 26/01/2014 From the start the ICRPS group adopted a territorial approach to rural policy, in fact following the development of the OECD approach, in which several of us were quite closely involved. This meant that we were, and are, more interested in rural regions, their people and economies and in the policies Read More …
by John Bryden 20/01/2014 Tom Johnson, Tony Fuller and I prepared a paper on the history of ICRPS since its inception in autumn 2002 and its possible future directions for the tenth anniversary conference of the ICRPS summer institutes. This was held during the tenth summer institute in Bologna, June 2013. We did so as Read More …
by the editors 16/01/2014 What makes a PhD become a fruit picker? (via NPR news) ‘Meat Atlas’ charts a changing world of meat eaters article from BBC News and the full report from the Heinrich Boell Foundation– an interesting report about the meat industry, purchasing and dietary habits worldwide, and the implications on the economy and Read More …
by the editors 10/01/2014 Dear Readers, welcome to a new year of Exploring Rurality. We hope you have had a happy holiday and a good start to the New Year. The editing team of this blog have had a few weeks off from blogging, but are now back. Exploring Rurality in 2014 A new year Read More …
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 …