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Peri-urban agriculture and multifunctionality: urban influence, farm adaptation behaviour and development perspectives
Zasada, Ingo - 2012
Multifunctional development of peri-urban agriculture is the central topic of this thesis. Farming structures and agricultural land use in their spatial dimension as well as activities and adaptation behaviour of individual holdings in metropolitan regions of the EU27 were analysed. Results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010408671
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Farming, the Environment and Entrepreneurship in the Shropshire Hills 1997-2009
Tate, Graham - African Farm Management Association - AFMA - 2012
of other entrepreneurial activity associated with the same SMEs. The following work objectives were adopted: To examine a … framework of McElwee (2008) and the earlier work of Carter (1998) are applied to classify the actions of the farmer SMEs with … relation to their entrepreneurial activities. A longitudinal study of a stratified random sample of rural SMEs in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010920168
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Development of entrepreneurial orientation in women and men : a study from the institutional perspective
Parga-Montoya, Neftali; Cuevas-Vargas, Héctor - In: Economía teoría y práctica 28 (2020) 52, pp. 121-146
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Novos dados sobre a evolução da população ativa rural e da pluriatividade no Rio Grande do Sul
Anjos, Flávio Sacco dos; Caldas, Nadia Velleda - Sociedade Brasileira de Economia e Sociologia Rural - SOBER - 2008
O artigo analisa as transformações que atingem o meio rural gaúcho nos cinco primeiros anos do século XXI, demonstrando o impacto da desagrarização e da pluriatividade a partir das informações fornecidas pela Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílio. Com base nos dados disponíveis é...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009205137
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Non-farm entrepreneurship in rural Africa : patterns and determinants
Nagler, Paula; Naudé, Wim - 2014
We are the first to provide a comparative empirical analysis of non-farm entrepreneurship in rural Africa, using the World Bank's unique LSMSISA dataset. This dataset covers six countries over the period 2005 to 2012. We find that rural enterprises tend to be small, informal household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010252632
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Growing beyond the niche? : how machines link production and networking practices of small rural food businesses
Tuitjer, Gesine - In: Entrepreneurship and regional development : an … 34 (2022) 5/6, pp. 471-485
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013274151
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Differifiation of economic activities in the Romanian rural area through European non-refundable funds
Giucǎ, Andreea Daniela - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : realities and …, (pp. 215-223). 2021
The diversification of economic activities in rural areas is a topical issue and can be a fundamental strategy for the development of the Romanian rural area, because it can produce a beneficial effect from an economic point of view, by increasing the income of the rural population.The Romanian...
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Bank credit and trade credit after the financial crisis : evidence from rural Galicia
Peón, David; Guntín, Xulia - In: Journal of business economics and management 22 (2021) 3, pp. 616-635
Access to external finance is a key challenge for the creation, survival and growth of SMEs. This article delves into …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012506248
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Diversification as a Survival Strategy for Marginal Farms an Exploratory Research
Vernimmen, Tom; Bourgeois, Marie; Van Huylenbroeck, Guido; … - 2002
One of the common strategies in rural development programmes is to support the adoption of new on-farm activities. The rationale behind this is that farm diversification is a way to assure an appropriate level of income for the farmers. Through interviews with 49 relatively small farmers, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443849
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Diversification as a Survival Strategy for Marginal Farms an Exploratory Research
Vernimmen, Tom; Bourgeois, Marie; Van Huylenbroeck, Guido; … - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2002
One of the common strategies in rural development programmes is to support the adoption of new on-farm activities. The rationale behind this is that farm diversification is a way to assure an appropriate level of income for the farmers. Through interviews with 49 relatively small farmers, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005330859