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Agrarian Economy and Rural Development - realities and perspectives for Romania
Turek - Rahoveanu, Adrian; Andrei, Jean - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The volume contains the papers accepted and published in the proceedings of the 3rd International symposium entitled: ‘Agrarian Economy and Rural Development - realities and perspectives for Romania’, organized by the Institute of Research for Agricultural Economics and Rural Development,...
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Environmental pressures and rural-urban migration: The case of Bangladesh
Herrmann, Michael; Svarin, David - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Bangladesh, like other least developed countries (LDC), has a large rural population and agricultural labor force. At … countries, are largely attributable to LDC's in Asia, and in particular Bangladesh. The very large rural-urban migration in … Bangladesh, in comparison with other least developed countries, is attributable to relatively strong push factors on the one hand …
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Farmers as knowledge brokers: Analysing three cases from Vietnam’s Mekong Delta
Nguyen, Quy-Hanh; Evers, Hans-Dieter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The paper explores the novel dimensions of agrarian change and of an agricultural knowledge‐creation culture in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta by examining cases of farmers engaged in knowledge brokering. Farmers empowered with knowledge, and through intensive engagement in networks and communities...
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Knowledge Loss: Managing Local Knowledge in Rural Uzbekistan
Wall, Caleb; Evers, Hans-Dieter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Knowledge loss is not a remote phenomenon, unique to one knowledge system. Rather we argue that the loss of knowledge is an issue for other knowledge systems as well. Knowledge loss is certainly a concern for anthropologists working on indigenous knowledge, fearful of ‘losing’ indigenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005617139
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L'evoluzione della ruralità nei Paesi in via di sviluppo (PVS). Approcci teorici ed applicativi
Pisani, Elena - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Rural economy, that is, the integrated system of non-homogeneous activities as performed out of urban areas, has very often been confused, in the development literature, with agricultural economy, which aims at the increase of agricultural and zootechnic production. The two terms imply distinct,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008777066
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Crop Prices, Agricultural Revenues, and the Rural Economy
Weber, Jeremy; Wall, Conor; Brown, Jason; Hertz, Tom - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
U.S. policy makers often justify agricultural subsidies by stressing that agriculture is the engine of the rural economy. We use the increase in crop prices in the late 2000s to estimate the marginal effect of increased agricultural revenues on local economies in the U.S. Heartland. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108997
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Changing Character of Rural Economy and Migrant Labour in Punjab
Singh, Lakhwinder; Singh, Inderjeet; Ghuman, Ranjit Singh - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Rural economy of Punjab has been undergoing structural transformation. But the dependence of rural population in general and rural labour in particular for earning livelihood from the rural economy continues. This process of rural transformation has perpetuated the distress among the rural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005623456
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Adapting the Romanian rural economy to the European agricultural policy from the perspective of sustainable development
Burja, Camelia; Burja, Vasile - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
One of the major objectives of the Common Agricultural Policy is the sustainable development of the agricultural sector and of the rural area. Romania, as a country recent integrated in the European Union, has to pass an adapting process to the CAP, in order to achieve sustainable farming...
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Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development in Terms of The Republic of Serbia Strategic Goals Realization within The Danube Region(preservation of rural values)
Cvijanović, Drago; Subić, Jonel; Andrei, Jean - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
International Scientific Meeting „Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development in Terms of The Republic of Serbia Strategic Goals Realization within The Danube Region“ (preservation of rural values), which be held in period 6-8th December 2012 on mountain Tara (Republic Serbia), through...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257831
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Labour Market Activities of Rural Households in developing countries.
Jatta, Sylvester - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Abstract Using national data from 14 representative developing countries, this paper explores rural wage employment and its potential as a mechanism for improving the living standards of the rural poor. The analysis suggests that the sector of employment (agricultural or non-agricultural) and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107675