This article reviews the evidence on agricultural service cooperatives in two countries of the Commonwealth of … of North America and Western Europe. Only one farm in 246 in Ukraine and one in 31 in Hungary are members of a service … cooperative, while in the US and France each farmer is a member of a service cooperative and in Italy every other farmer is a …

Tajikistan, with 93% of its surface area taken up by mountains and 65% of its labor force employed in agriculture, is …

This paper analyzes the effect of family composition, and in particular the number of children, the age gap between the … oldest and youngest child and the age of the youngest child, on parents’ involvement in social networks. The predictions of a … children has a U -shaped effect on parents' involvement in social networks, with substantial differences between fathers and …

In Israel, rural communities are those with up to 2000 residents, and rural areas include only rural communities. This … urban communities as well as other spatial indicators among the explanatory variables, is estimated for rural households in … associated with rural household per-capita income. In particular, the urban population within 10 km is positively associated with …

Helping to sustain a viable rural sector, rural tourism enjoys public support in many countries. We claim that due to … club-good and agglomeration externalities in the rural accommodation market, public support should be integrated in a … broader local development policy that regulates the number of accommodation units in a locality. To demonstrate this we …

The paper examines agricultural production and productivity growth in two Central Asian countries – Tajikistan and … agriculture to more market-compliant individual and family farming. In both countries, the beginning of the policy-driven switch … to family farming around 1997 coincided with the beginning of recovery in agriculture, namely resumption of agricultural …

This paper applies a discrete-choice framework with product differentiation to model the rural tourism industry in … model accounts for heterogeneity in tastes and technologies and allows for unobservable product characteristics. We find … evidence for technological synergy in joint production of farming and rural hospitality, but none in the demand. The …