International Comparative Rural Policy Studies
by John Bryden, 23/02/2014 Now that we have ten years of experience with ICRPS, there is room for diversity of views on the future of ICRPS. For my part, I think it remains a very robust model that has stood the test of time as a self-supporting entity which is a creature of its Faculty Read More …
by John Bryden 10/02/2014 It is not always easy to perceive who is an ICRPS ‘student’ and who is ‘faculty’. The fact is that faculty come to the summer school in great numbers and regard it as an important means of learning new things, as well as updating themselves on contemporary issues and debates. The Read More …
by John Bryden, 26/01/2014 From the start the ICRPS group adopted a territorial approach to rural policy, in fact following the development of the OECD approach, in which several of us were quite closely involved. This meant that we were, and are, more interested in rural regions, their people and economies and in the policies Read More …
by John Bryden 20/01/2014 Tom Johnson, Tony Fuller and I prepared a paper on the history of ICRPS since its inception in autumn 2002 and its possible future directions for the tenth anniversary conference of the ICRPS summer institutes. This was held during the tenth summer institute in Bologna, June 2013. We did so as Read More …
by the editors 24/10/2012 OECD report on renewable energy policies and their economic impact on the rural areas (including contribution from our own John Bryden) World wide decline in hunger? The UN´s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) says “Hunger: Not a billion after all“ Co-operatives key to feeding a growing population Recently Read is a weekly Read More …
by John Bryden and Karen Refsgaard, 30/06/2012 We have much enjoyed our 8 days with Faculty and Students at the 2012 Summer Institute organised by our colleagues at Concordia University and UQAR (University of Quebec at Rimousky). We have some reflections on Quebec Rural Policy to offer as a result of the discussions and inputs 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 …