International Comparative Rural Policy Studies
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, 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 18/12/2012 Rural Areas in Transition: Services of General Interest, Entrepreneurship and Quality of Life – IAMO Forum 2013 to be held in Halle (Saale), Germany 19-21 June 2013 U.S. Intelligence Agencies See a Different World in 2030 including increased urbanization, shifting economic power, and resource shortages (including food and water). FAO calls for Read More …
by the editors 16/10/2012 A geography professor at the University of Guelph says to the BBC that we are currently eating more food than we are producing. In Africa, the well known migration pattern from the rural to the urban seems to be slowing down, according to researchers. Superweeds, superpests: The Legacy of Pesticides Recently Read is a Read More …
A few superficial impressions (from a Rural Development standpoint) from a very short visit 8-11 December 2011. by John Bryden, 12/12/2011 Introduction & Background I visited Tunisia at the invitation of IACE to represent the International Rural Network at their conference, which was aimed at the post-revolutionary thinking about the respective roles of State, Civil Society Read More …