International Comparative Rural Policy Studies
ICRPS 2015 launched at University College Dublin on Sunday 21 June with an informal welcoming dinner at the Morehampton Brasserie in Donnybrook south Dublin convened by James Breen the ICRPS 2015 coordinator from University College Dublin (UCD). After filling a Dublin bus for the trip from campus to the restaurant we had a great meal. Read More …
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 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 …
Blog #8 – July 7, 2014 by Salman Banisadr ICRPS took us all to a livestock market that has been in operation for over 80 years, where 5,000 animals can be sold on a Monday (from 3am to the afternoon…busy hours are earlier). Here is a brief overview of the livestock farm–there is no fixed Read More …
by Bernat Vilarasau 12/04/2014 Over the last two years I have been involved in an exciting social entrepreneurship experience. It was in December of 2011, when a group of seven entrepreneurs founded the Cooperative Sambucus sccp. But the real beginning of the initiative was two years before. At the time I was working as the 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 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 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 04/10/2013 The journal Modern Economy is planning an issue on Rural development, and a call for papers has now been released. Find the call for papers here. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: Rural development Economic viability Rural communities Regional development Rural-urban migration Urbanization PS. Thanks for the tip, John B.! Read More …
by the editors 18/09/2013 Will rural be the factor that saves civilization? In this lecture Ivan Emke argues that Rural created civilization througth rural innovations. In a light, right-to-the-point way he