International Comparative Rural Policy Studies
by the editors 02/10/2014 “Growing biointensive” is both an agricultural methodology and an international movement with people having alternative experiences A Berlin based company called Infarm takes urban farming to a new level. You can now grow micro greens in your own kitchen by using their growing kit. It´s reusable and allows you to see Read More …
by the editors 04/09/2014 Exploring Ruriality is back again and this are some of the things we have Read Recently: The New Face of Hunger – National Geographic has made this article/photo documentary about food insecure Americans How to inspire a generation of farming entrepreneurs, A new report outlines how Africa´s youth can find employment Read More …
by the editors 17/07/2014 Here´s the last Recently Read for the season. Enjoy! According to a new article in the Pew Reserch Center website, Americans have the cheapest food in history, and this unprecedented abundance is largely responsible for our current obesity epidemic. Water and Climate Risks Facing U.S. Corn Production: How Companies and Investors Can Cultivate 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 the editors 20/04/2014 Agroecology as an organizing principle, Oxfam America The Politics of Poverty Blog (thanks for the tip J. Devlin) A summary of the OECD’s Work on Climate Change in 2013-2014. Any country can reach high shares of wind, solar power cost-effectively, says the International Energy Agency in The Power of Transformation: Wind, Sun and the Read More …
by the editors 13/03/2014 The Journal of Rural and Community Development has released a new, special edition on Rural Geography – Rural Development. USDA Regional Climate Hubs: USDA’s regional hubs will deliver information to farmers, ranchers and forest landowners to help them adapt to climate change and weather variability. Slow food youth gardens in South Africa promote Read More …
by the editors 16/02/2014 Dr. Dave Kohl, Professor Emeritus in the Agricultural & Applied Economics Department at Virginia Tech University discusses the key economic indicators to observe in the agricultural industry in the recorded webinar entitled The Pulse of Global Economics Mapping Local Food Webs Toolkit from the Campaign to Protect Rural England Rural communities 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 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 …