International Comparative Rural Policy Studies
Great news from Brandon University! Check out this new initiative with great significance for ICRPS and all the partner institutions. by Bill Reimer 18/10/2014 The Rural Policy Learning Commons (RPLC) was officially launched on Wednesday (August 27th). The Canadian Secretary of State for Science and Technology highlighted our project as he announced the funding of Read More …
by the editors 16/09/2014 One of the aims of this blog is to encourage networking and cooperation across boarders and research fields among ICRPS faculty and alumni. We are therefore very happy to present a new article in the journal Migraciones Internacionales vol. 7, n 4, p. 235-264, by ICRPS faculty member by Philomena De Read More …
by the editors 10/09/2014 ICRPS faculty member Philomena De Lima from University of the Highlands and Islands is know to many of us, from various Summer Institutes. Along with Andrew K. Copus, she has edited a new book relevant to everyone interested in rural developement. The title is “Territorial Cohesion in Rural Europe – The Read More …
by Kjersti, 22/07/2014 Dear ICRPS 2014 alumni, first of all, thank you very much Bill, Fabio, Subi, Kate, Tristeen, Haniel, Mikaël, Md, Venus, Regional Developement group 1, Brett, Pierre, Raymond, Anthony, Salman, Erin, Charles, Aaron, Dan, Marco, Mary, Ryan, Myriam and Ernest for your day to day contributions from the 11th ICRPS Summer Institute in 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 Tom Johnson 17/03/2014 The idea for the International Comparative Rural Policy Studies consortium was conceived during John Bryden’s sabbatical year at the Rural Policy Research Institute at the University of Missouri. ICRPS was born at a meeting we organized among US, Canadian and European rural social scientists in 2002. Since then ICRPS has developed and grown through Read More …
by Andrew Spaeth 23/06/2013 on day 6 of the 2013 Summer Insitute The 10th annual International Comparative Rural Policy Studies (ICRPS) conference was held on Sunday, June 23 at the Church Room at the University of Bologna residential center in Bertinoro. The conference started with some reflection on the past ten years of ICRPS followed Read More …
by Doug Ramsey, 08/01/2013 One of my hopes with ICRPS was the development of research collaborations. For the past few years I have been developing research projects with Vicky Soldevila (ICRPS alum year 1 and 2) and Lourdes Viladomiu (ICRPS faculty member). The research area is the hog sectors of Manitoba, Canada and Catalonia, Spain.