This paper investigates the effects of network based individual social capital on the access of rural households to … social capital. The approach originates from the field of sociology and entails a personal network survey. We define four … combination with socially distant ties bridginglink social capital) can potentially improve households’ access to rural services. …

. Therefore, a survey using a standardised questionnaire was conducted in Poland (175 households), Romania (185 households), and … of cluster analysis: (i) rural diversifiers, (ii) rural pensioners, (iii) farmers, and (iv) rural newcomers. In a second … strategies for rural diversifiers and rural newcomers is starting a non-farm self-employed activity and developing their farms …

understanding the effects of natural shocks on risk behavior. Referring to a 24 year-old disaster, we use unique survey data and … experiment results from two disaster affected communities in rural Cameroon to test two hypotheses: (1) Natural shocks affect … cognitive behavior better than the survey. Results support previous evidence on applying experiments in understanding cognitive …

-economic situation and the fears and strategies of the stakeholders, particularly small-scale farmers. This report attempts to close some … of these knowledge gaps by reviewing Croatiaâs rural development dynamics and farm structures, as well as agricultural … and rural policies. Based on an empirical research component, the report provides unique, detailed insights into the …

and rural communities with social capital could compensate for this by collective actions. The emergence of a relatively … flourishing microfinance sector in urban and rural areas is proof of the power of tapping social networks when public and private … Germany who have an outspoken interest in conducting research on social capital and the underlying network in a rural context …

. This article focuses on SFHs and rural non-farm employment (RNFE). On the basis of a comparative 2007-survey of 489 SFHs in … Bulgaria, Poland and Romania, three countries with particularly many SFHs, four major types of SFHs (rural pensioners, farmers …, rural diversifiers, rural newcomers) were identified. For policy analysis, a multiobjective linear programming household …

Everybody knows: rural regions offer fewer possibilities for non-farm employment than urban areas. For this reason, it … was the semi-subsistence farm structures that had to absorb the released workers from the big rural state enterprises and … the urban-rural migrants fleeing unemployment in the towns in the course of economic transformation. This has created …

The importance of nonprofit organizations such as rural development organizations, farmers associations and common … initiative groups as drivers of change in rural areas has been generally recognized in the economics of nonprofit organizations … example of a nonprofit rural development organization in North West Cameroon, this paper analyzes the relative poverty of …