International Comparative Rural Policy Studies
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 …
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 …