Based on the primary data collected from 182 rural households from seven villages (five of which are inhabited by indigenous population and the rest two are inhabited by immigrants Muslim population from Bangladesh) this study aims at knowing if cultural variables make a difference to economic...

Economic hardship, agricultural policy reform and price developments have adversely affected incomes from agricultural production in Lithuania, and many farm households have accessed additional sources of income in the rural economy. In an analysis of recently collected survey data we find that...

L’obiettivo del presente lavoro è quello di sottolineare la necessità e l’utilità dei distretti rurali ed agroindustriali, sia per la valorizzazione turistica della Sicilia, che per il mantenimento della capacità produttiva ed il superamento delle ridotte dimensioni aziendali, ed anche...

THIS PAPER ENUNERATES THE SEQUENTIAL HISTORIC ORIGIN OF OSUMENYI VILLAGE AND ITS CULTURAL, RELIGIOUS AND ECONOMIC PRACTICES. IN OTHERWORDS, THE PAPER WILL HELP TO CLARIFY SOME OF THE SOCIO-POLITICAL CHANGES AND ECONOMIC CHANGES THAT HAS TAKEN PLACE IN OSUMENYI'S HISTORY. THE PAPER RECOMMENDS THE...

Lack of coordination among agencies at project level and scarce promotion of contracts at micro-scale are critical gaps widely spread in many Latin American regions. We discuss some specific and feasible mechanisms, namely: (i) alliances for rural development and (ii) contract promoters; that...

The paper addresses the “spatial” structure of agriculture in Poland whose spatial development is analysed from the beginning of the transition towards a market economy up until the country’s forthcoming accession to the EU and the correlated implementation of the Common Agricultural...