International Comparative Rural Policy Studies
Blog #5 – July 4, 2014 by Regional Development group 1 The second field trip of ICRPS – Mexico 2014 took place on the 4th of the July. The day began, at 7am on the bus, with a passionate rendition of “America the beautiful” in honour of America’s Independence Day. Today we visited the Villa Guerrero Read More …
Blog #4 – July 3, 2014 by Mikaël Akimowicz, Md Mutaleb and Venus Welch Waking up with visions of the Aztec pyramids engrained in our minds, the intensity of the previous day still fresh on our bodies. Today’s intellectual oasis included the analysis of comparative theory and methods, research methodology and comparative rural policy. We were also Read More …
Blog #3 – July 2, 2014 by Tristeen Bownes and Haniel Ogburu (Group 2 Goverance/ Governability) Can you say Trout?! The participants of the ICRPS were able to analyze trout in Malinalco, Mexico, where we had the fortune of touring a trout farm in the area and learning about how rural policies impact its production. Read More …
Blog #2 – July 1, 2014 By Subi Azim and Kate Olson (Group 1 Social Structures and Migration) Day Two started nicely, after yesterday’s rain, we saw some sun! After arriving on the UAEM campus we started right into learning about Comparative Rural Policy from Ray Bollman and Tom Johnson. The role of policy and Read More …
Blog #1 – July 1, 2014 by Fabio De Menna After yesterday’s incredible football-watching experience in the world’s fourth largest square, the Zocalo, a very promising first edition of the second decade of the ICRPS summer Institute officially started this morning. Luckily, but sadly, the Italian national team is
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 …