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your research in the agrarian economy and rural development domain related to the food quality and security, innovation and …
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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 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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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, we focus on dynamic efficiency - specifically, the production of technological innovation - of SOEs in manufacturing … simple privatization of companies. This leaves room for exploration and implementation of policies that might reconcile State …
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The new paradigm of regional policy is based more on competitiveness, innovation and internal potential of regions than … on balancing regional disparities by public aid only. Innovation policies are being established and implemented at … national and regional levels covering relatively a broad range of public initiatives directed towards supporting the innovation …
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