International Comparative Rural Policy Studies
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 …
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, 21/11/2013 It’s been a few weeks but here are some of the resources we have Recently Read: Support to agriculture rising again, says Agricultural Policy Monitoring and Evaluation 2013: OECD Countries and Emerging Economies Local Strategies for Youth Employment from the OECD Seven strategies for small-town survival from a 5 part series on small town Read More …
by Doug Ramsey, 15/11/2013 On October 14, 2013, the Thanksgiving Holiday in Canada, someone made an unauthorized access into one of the 40 computer servers at Brandon University. We call these people hackers. Some do it just to prove they can. Others do it for more vindictive reasons. Regardless of the reason, it is an Read More …
by the editors 14/11/2013 Finally, after a month the servers are now back on and Exploring Rurality is online yet again! Our sudden disappearance was caused by a hacker attack on one of the servers of Brandon University in Canada. Brandon U is one of the partner institutions of ICRPS, and they have been so kind Read More …
by the editors, 6/10/2013 These are some of the articles we have come across lately. We hope you enjoy! The 9th OECD Rural Developement Policy Confererence will be held in Bologna, Italy 23-25th of October. The topic is Rural-Urban Partnerships: An Integrated Approach to Economic Developement Norway invests $23.7 million in crop diversity to ensure Read More …